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THE SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The focal point for criminology and criminal justice research within
the
university is the newly constituted University of Sheffield Centre for
Criminological Research, based in the Department of Law. The
Centre’s work
will be of particular interest to any appointees wishing to undertake
empirical research and to develop their career with experienced
criminologists.

THE POST

We are seeking to appoint a full time Research Officer, for an initial
period of three years, to support the work of the Centre and its
Director.
 The post is available immediately, at a salary from £18,265 on the
Research Staff Scale 1A (£18,265- £27,339).

The post provides a unique opportunity to become a member of a
large, developing centre and to work with leading criminologists at
an international level. The successful applicant will be a well-
qualified graduate in social sciences with a specialism in
criminology, and with a recently completed or near-completed PhD.
 Skills in quantitative research methods are desirable, along with
some knowledge of qualitative skills. University staff training and
development resources will be available to the appointee, who will
also have the opportunity to publish.

Specific responsibilities will include:

·     Assisting Profesor Holdaway with research projects and
strategic planning

·     Providing teaching assistance for Professor Holdaway,
taking undergraduate seminar classes  primarily in aspects of
introductory criminology and theories of crime and deviance

·     Providing research support to academic staff, especially
when planning research bids. This will involve secondary data
analysis, literature reviews and other preparatory analytical work.
Some
time will be allocated to working with a number of lecturers in their
first appointment.


THE POST

We are seeking to appoint a half-time (17.5 hours/week) Centre
Secretary, for an initial period of three years, to support the work of
the Centre, its Director - Professor Simon Holdaway - and staff.
The post
is available immediately, at a salary in the range of £12,556 -
£14,536
(pro rata) on Grade 3 of scale for Clerical Staff.

The Centre Secretary will be part of the core staff of the Centre and
will
be involved in providing administrative and clerical support for all its
activities, with responsibilities mainly in the following areas:

·     support for some of the research projects of the Centre,
including clerical, administrative and possibly some data analysis
support ·     running the Centre office and assisting the Director
·     developing the Centre’s website (training for this can be
provided if necessary) ·      helping to organise conferences and
seminars ·    helping to produce and market the publications of
the Centre, including its annual report. The successful candidate
will have excellent word organisational and IT skills (in
wordprocessing, DTP and databases). A pleasant and confident
telephone manner, an ability to deal effectively with people at all
levels, a flexible, well-organised approach and the motivation to
work alone and within a small team will all be important in this
busy role.  THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW

The Department currently has more than 60 academic and
academic-related staff, including 14 Professors, three Readers, six
Senior Lecturers, nearly 30 Lecturers and 12 or so research staff.
They are supported by a large cohort of part-time teachers, and
administrative and other support staff. The total student body
numbers around 1,800, consisting of around 1,400 undergraduate
students and a large postgraduate school of over 300 students.

The Department’s mission, in both its teaching and its research
activities, is to be explicitly European and international. This goal
was
reflected in the introduction in September 2000 of an undergraduate
degree
in European, International and Comparative Law, the introduction in
1999
of a new MA in International Criminology and the recent pathing of
the LLM
programme to allow for specialisation in areas of Commercial,
European and
International Law.

RESEARCH

With a 5-rating in both RAE 1996 and RAE 2001, the Department
is committed to maintaining its reputation for leading-edge research
of
international excellence. It is renowned for wide-ranging traditional
legal scholarship, for its rolling programme of research in the broad
area
of commercial law, for research in the areas of criminology and
socio-legal studies, and for its more recently developed innovative
clusters focusing respectively on the legal profession and on the
regulation of biotechnology. To a considerable extent, the
Department’s
research profile is represented by the following formal groupings: the
Centre for Socio- Legal Studies, the Institute for Commercial Law
Studies,
the Centre for European, Comparative and International Law, the
Institute
for the Study of the Legal Profession (all exclusively within the
Department), and the University of Sheffield Centre for
Criminological
Research and the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and
Ethics
(the Directorates of which are in the Department). See further
http://www.shef.ac.uk/law/research.htm.

The Department has a particularly successful record of attracting
funding from both European and UK bodies (in the latter case,
bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council,
Government Departments including the Home Office and the Lord
Chancellor’s Department, the Bar Council and the Law Society,
and charitable institutions), and it has attracted sponsorship from a
number of major firms of solicitors. It encourages and supports
individual
research in a variety of ways, particularly by operating an advance-
notice
scheme of study-leave, and by providing financial support through
the
Departmental Research Travel Fund.

TEACHING The principal current undergraduate teaching
responsibilities of the Department, which received an “excellent”
rating in the HEFCE Teaching Quality Assessment round in 1993,
are the law degrees of LLB, BA(Law), BA(Law) (Law with French,
German or Spanish), LLB (European, International and Comparative
Law) and BA(Law) (Law and Criminology), together with the BA in
Social Policy and Criminology.   Postgraduate programmes are the
MA in International Criminology, the LLM in International,
Commercial and European Law, the MA in Biotechnological Law
and Ethics, the Diploma in Legal Practice (the Legal Practice
Course) and the MA(Law). There is also a large community of
graduate researchers (some 40-50) in the Department reading for
research degrees by thesis (LLM, MPhil, or PhD). Full details of all these
programmes can be found by following the links from
http://www.shef.ac.uk/law/index.shtml.

Candidates interested in the post and the work of the University of
Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research may contact the
Director, Professor Simon Holdaway (tel: 0114 222 6767; e-mail:
[log in to unmask]).
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Dr David S. Wall,
Director, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies,
University of Leeds.
Leeds LS2 9JT

TEL: 44 (0)113 343 5023
FAX: 44 (0)113 343 5056
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/ccjs/homepage.htm