Assistant Professor (Practice) Crime and Justice

Job title:

Assistant Professor (Practice) Crime and Justice

Company

Northumbria University

Job description

Job Description:ABOUT THE ROLEAre you an experienced practitioner whose practice directly or fundamentally aligns to the activities, operations and business of the criminal justice system and wider allied or arms length professions, seeking an opportunity to use your experience and skills in practice based settings to educate and engage in knowledge exchange with academic scholars and students of criminology and policing to inform the delivery of exceptional teaching and support student success?We are recruiting to our criminology and policing provision at Northumbria University. We are seeking ambitious and dynamic, practitioner and professional colleagues into Assistant Professor (Practice) positions to join our team in the Department of Social Sciences.These posts are advertised for (salary £45,584 – £56,021) roles.ABOUT THE TEAMThe Department of Social Sciences sits within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences. We provide high quality, research-rich experiential learning for students in Criminology and Policing, Sociology, and International Relations and Politics, at all levels from extended degree foundation to doctoral level. You will be part of a long established yet vibrant and growing department and a lively academic community which boasts several seminar series and a variety of avenues for you to pursue your research, practice and knowledge exchange interests.Criminology and Policing is a large and still growing team of outstanding researchers, evidenced by our performance in REF 2021 where Northumbria ranked 3rd for research power in the Social Work and Social Policy Unit of Assessment. Research in Social Sciences is supported by the , the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, . and the Interdisciplinary Research Themes of Gendered Violence and Abuse and Urban Futures. The Centre for Crime and Policing provides world-leading research on crime and policing that enhances understanding and practice in relation to some of the key global challenges of the 21st Century. These include transnational organised crime, the use (and abuse) of technology, social harm, forensics, law enforcement and criminal justice, and a host of related matters. This work is an important contribution to the development of evidence-based policymaking to inform the work of stakeholders globally, nationally, and regionally, including both domestic and international criminal justice systems and partnerships, governments, third sector agencies, private companies, and civil society organisations. Additionally, staff are engaged through a series of seven Departmental research clusters:

• Critical Security and Foreign Policy
• Environmental Justice
• Power and Intersecting Inequalities
• Crime, Harm and Ethics
• Offenders with Multiple and Complex Needs
• Gender Based Violence Research
• Creative and Participatory Methodologies

We are keen to recruit to an open list of teaching and practice oriented research interests in order to attract candidates whose experience and practice is at the cutting edge of policy, and practice, and who can complement, broaden and extend our existing expertise. There is an expanding and richly diverse research methodology in our disciplines, and we are keen to attract those who can demonstrate this in the use, and teaching, of different practice based research methodologies.ABOUT YOUYou will be/become a research active member of our Criminology and Policing subject area and your own practice expertise and interests and specialisms will complement and extend the broad, yet exciting and ever-growing, range of research we are engaged in. You will be engaged in practice-informed research and experiential learning and teaching and, be an authority on the key debates, policies and intervention practices affecting the criminological and policing landscape around the world. Your practice- based research will be steered towards effecting social change and influencing the advancement of crime, victimisation, offending and policing.Successful candidates will need to evidence:

• their experience and contribution by demonstrating contemporary expert, specialist knowledge and expertise within the wider (crime and) justice framework as relevant to criminology and policing.
• knowledge of the key debates, policies and pedagogical practices as appropriate to the wider (crime and) justice framework and their relevance to criminology and policing.
• ability and skills appropriate for building experiential learning provision, and business engagement in the justice and/or policing area.

Further information about the experience and skills, education and training can be found in the role description.Further information is available in the job descriptions.For an informal discussion about the posts and the key criteria, please contact Professor Pamela Davies, Head of Department atWe welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about .To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.ABOUT USAt Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow’s challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.Awarded the title of in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more .Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. To say thank you, we offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and .Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what’s important to us.Please visit page to find out more.We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager.Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers.The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.We are committed to keeping your data safe so it’s important for you to know how we use any personal data you give us. For more detailed information, access our .

Expected salary

£45584 – 56021 per year

Location

Newcastle

Job date

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:25:21 GMT

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