Lecturer in Law (Maternity Leave Cover)

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

The profitable candidate might want to have the power to educate, assess and help college students throughout our portfolio which incorporates LLB Legislation with Basis Yr, LLB Legislation and LLM Authorized Observe.

We wish to encourage functions from candidates who’re in a position to provide a number of of the next topic areas:

We welcome functions from an educational 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 get entangled within the real-world utility of their studying from the second they be a part of us. 

We would like our college students to develop and draw upon the very newest information of their fields via 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 Influence Hub, our college students and the professional workers who help them work to satisfy the wants of these in our neighborhood who might in any other case be unable to unlock professional assist. 

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

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

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

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational 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 subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught via doing. They’re empowered all through their instructional journey, reaching vital instructional achieve and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to hitch us. Come and be a part of the subsequent 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 rework their lives and to attain their potential. Via our training and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the earth, we not solely help people to rework their lives, however we additionally play a component in remodeling society.

Positioned 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 had been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating via innovation and its utility via information change, and of artistic analysis and apply, in the present day 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 educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is house to a wealthy and numerous vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to make it possible for that is additionally mirrored in our broader college neighborhood. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and scholar neighborhood 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 otherwise, and we construct neighborhood. 

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

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

Our College is situated in one of the culturally wealthy and numerous 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 boundaries that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside increased training.  To display this, we’ve got signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to indicate 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 Prime 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 via 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 got additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by scholar 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 improvement and sustainability for technicians working in increased training 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 stuffed with vitality and enthusiasm and is a superb place to dwell and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, the town is definitely accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Avenue station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas the 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 will probably be one of the environmentally pleasant stations on the earth.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation for the reason that 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 neighborhood of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to firms of all sizes to spice up progress via 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 stunning 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 beautiful new house for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many principal occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on the 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.

Town additionally supplies an amazing 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 the town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the retailers in Birmingham provide 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.