Senior Lecturer in Law

Cardiff Metropolitan University • Full-time • Cardiff • 10h ago

The Opportunity

Cardiff School of Management is located in a state-of-the-art facility close to the heart of the capital city, the University offers a diverse portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Law sits within the School and plays a central role in delivering the ambitions of the University’s Strategic Plan (Strategy 2030).

CSM is an ambitious, accredited provider of Business and Management education. State-of-the-art facilities on the Llandaff Campus provide an encouraging and creative learning environment, showcasing the School as a leading centre in the UK for Accounting, Economics and Finance; Business, Management and Law; Marketing and Strategy; and Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management. Staff are rightly proud of their significant contribution to regional regeneration and economic growth through teaching, enterprise work and applied research.

In 2024, the School became the first University in Wales and just the third in the UK to receive the Business School Impact System (BSIS) label from the European Foundation for Management Development for the positive economic impact the School has on the Cardiff Capital Region.

The School is proud of the role it plays in delivering programmes around the world. With around 10,000 students studying management programmes at our international TNE partners, the School makes a positive difference to the life chances of students and communities around the globe.

Cardiff School of Management’s Department of Business, Management and Law is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Law with a strong criminology profile and a clear socio-legal and doctrinal focus. This is a strategically important appointment that will strengthen the Department’s growing provision at the intersection of law, criminology, justice and public policy.

The Department delivers a range of highly successful law programmes, including the LLB (Hons), BA (Hons) Law and Criminology, BA (Hons) Business Law and Management, and a Foundation in Legal Studies pathway. In 2024, the Department launched the CSM Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, providing students with supervised opportunities to deliver legal advice and assistance in a real-world setting. Teaching across the Department prioritises employability, professional skills and personal development, while situating law firmly within its broader social, political and criminological contexts. This approach enables students to critically engage with law’s role in shaping justice, inequality and social outcomes.

The successful candidate will be a criminology-informed legal scholar, able to contribute to undergraduate teaching across law and criminology programmes, with particular strength in areas that explore crime, justice and regulation from a legal perspective. They will be expected to support curriculum development, contribute to research and scholarship, and enhance the Department’s applied and socially engaged teaching ethos.

The role holder will contribute to teaching across a range of undergraduate modules, with teaching and research interests aligned to one or more of the following areas:

Punishment and Justice
Access to Justice
Criminal Justice and Legal Responses to Crime
Family Law and Social Justice
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal and Professional Skills
Terrorism, Radicalisation and Violence
International and Comparative Law and Systems
Supervision of final year dissertations or projects.

This post offers an exciting opportunity for a criminology specialist with a strong legal foundation to shape an innovative, practice-focused curriculum and to contribute meaningfully to debates around law, crime and justice in society.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

You will be required to make a significant contribution to the delivery of our taught portfolio contributing to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in our Law provision and other areas of our core curriculum depending on your areas of expertise and experience. Enthusiastic about student-centred pedagogy, you will contribute to education delivery, including programme management as required, across the range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You will also make a significant contribution to employability, and professional engagement with relevant internal and external organisations, at a regional, national and international level.

You will be expected to contribute to the research profile of the department and to meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework.

Applications are particularly welcome from outstanding candidates with teaching and research experience. There will be opportunities to contribute to PG research supervision.

What we are looking for

A Masters (LLM/MA/MRes) or equivalent qualification in Law or Criminology/Criminal Justice or a related discipline.
An in-depth knowledge of subject and professional area of Law, Criminology /Criminal Justice or a related discipline.
Successful experience of HE Law teaching/professional practice or equivalent and demonstrated competence to teach principles of legal professional conduct on related programmes.
A good honours degree.
An in-depth understanding of pedagogy.
An in-depth understanding of research/enterprise and scholarly activity.
Ability to design, develop and deliver a range of programmes at various levels.
Ability to review programme design on a regular basis to ensure compliance with quality standards and academic regulations and to make alterations where appropriate.
Ability to contribute to the achievement of the School Development Plan and the institutions strategic planning processes.
Ability to develop research objectives, prepare proposals, carry out independent research, referee and contribute to peer assessment.
Ability to identify opportunities for strategic development/improvement e.g. research projects, new courses, consultancy.
Ability to identify (through the analysis of appropriate management information) areas requiring improved performance e.g. student numbers, student satisfaction.
Experience of providing academic leadership and first line support/mentoring for other colleagues.
Experience of engaging in pedagogic and practitioner research.
Ability to achieve Fellow Status as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Professional Recognition scheme, within agreed timescales (as soon as is practicably possible and definitely within three years of commencement of employment).

Contact Us
If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Angela Joseph, Head of Department, at ajoseph@cardiffmet.ac.uk for further information about working with us at our University please visit our recruitment website.

All applications must be submitted online.

The person specification will be used as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page.

Further details:

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.

Cardiff Metropolitan University is proud to be a Disability Confident employer and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant.

All applicants with disabilities, or those who are part of the Armed Forces community who during the shortlisting process meet the essential criteria for the role will be progressed to the next stage.

The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.

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