Lecturer in Law (Maternity Leave Cover)

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and various place to review and work proper within the coronary heart of town, and we at present have an thrilling alternative for a Lecturer in Legislation to hitch our dynamic group throughout the Faculty of Legislation, Social & Prison Justice.

The profitable candidate might want to have the flexibility to educate, assess and help college students throughout our portfolio which incorporates LLB Legislation with Basis 12 months, LLB Legislation and LLM Authorized Apply.

We want to encourage purposes from candidates who’re in a position to supply a number of of the next topic areas:

We welcome purposes from a tutorial and/or practice-based background. 

In our College of Enterprise, Legislation, and Social Sciences (BLSS), we attempt to be on the cutting-edge of new concepts, by difficult our workers and college students to excel in analysis and their research. Our emphasis is on practice-oriented instructing, utilized analysis and consultancy – and we encourage our college students to become involved within the real-world software of their studying from the second they be part of us. 

We would like our college students to develop and draw upon the very newest data of their fields by way of engagement with the world past the College – which in flip delivers profit again to wider society. Whether or not it’s our in-house Legislation Clinic, our Enterprise Recommendation Centre, Advertising Company or Social Impression Hub, our college students and the skilled workers who help them work to fulfill the wants of these in our group who might in any other case be unable to unlock skilled assist. 

Our enterprise provision has a novel relationship with the extraordinary metropolis through which it’s rooted, famend for its entrepreneurial and business focus all through its instructing, analysis, and enterprise exercise.  

Our regulation instructing is knowledgeable by the idea {that a} balanced view makes higher authorized professionals. College students don’t simply study regulation, they advocate it, and they don’t simply give attention to skilled apply, however search to actively break down limitations to social justice and human rights all through the world. By way of specializing in the weak in our society, workers and college students are engaged in making a distinction by way of their authorized data and apply.  

And all through our Social Sciences programmes, college students and lecturers work collectively throughout disciplines to develop insights into society. From understanding crime and punishment, to the exploration of social constructions and alter, our workers and college students embrace a radical, but sensible agenda geared toward positively impacting on society, each regionally and globally.  

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with a tutorial STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent individuals to hitch us in taking us on the following stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, reaching important academic acquire and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to hitch us. Come and be a part of the following thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to remodel their lives and to attain their potential. By way of our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the planet, we not solely help people to remodel their lives, however we additionally play a component in remodeling society.

Situated within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of creating, courting again to our origins in 1843 after we have been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by way of innovation and its software by way of data trade, and of artistic analysis and apply, immediately finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our tutorial portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is house to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to ensure that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and pupil group is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we predict in another way, and we construct group. 

We’re dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion, constantly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all points of our operations. We imagine that by working collectively, combining our many various backgrounds and life experiences, we are going to empower one another to achieve our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is positioned in one of the vital culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encircling area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional limitations that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside larger schooling.  To exhibit this, we’ve signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to point out our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the High 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by way of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Conscious Employer, which suggests we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our workers, and we’ve additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by pupil psychological well being charity Scholar Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger schooling and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for almost 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis filled with power and enthusiasm and is a superb place to stay and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, town is definitely accessible by street, rail and air. Birmingham New Avenue station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new speedy rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Avenue Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and can be one of the vital environmentally pleasant stations on the planet.

The town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation because the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is house to an inter-disciplinary group of entrepreneurs, companies, tutorial researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to corporations of all sizes to spice up progress by way of innovation to deal with business and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to lovely historic buildings and the enduring Library of Birmingham. It additionally has superb live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It’s also house to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new house for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many fundamental occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College workers and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene gives one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Avenue on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

The town additionally gives an ideal place to buy, being house the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous house of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is house to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Faculty of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham supply a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in reaching the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the ideas that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.