Lecturer in Sociology

Wage:

Lecturer Grade F – £39,347 – £44,263 every year

Lecturer Grade G – £45,585 – £54,395 every year

Newcastle College is a good place to work, with wonderful advantages . We’ve a beneficiant vacation package deal; plus the chance to purchase extra, nice pension schemes and plenty of well being and wellbeing initiatives to help you.

Closing Date: 21 April 2024

The Function

We’re in search of to nominate a Lecturer in Sociology for a full time, mounted interval of 12 months (September 2024 to August 2025) to offer maternity cowl. You’ll contribute to the analysis profile of the Sociology Topic Group within the Faculty of Geography, Politics & Sociology by publishing in internationally recognised journals, demonstrating analysis impression, and securing exterior analysis funding. Moreover, you’ll develop and ship programmes in Sociology, guaranteeing an impressive educating expertise for our college students.

For casual enquiries please contact: Professor Ruth McAreavey, [email protected] or Dr Karenza Moore, [email protected]

Please present proof of the way you meet the important standards required for the function outlined in `The Individual’ by importing a letter of software alongside together with your Curriculum Vitae (CV).

Key Accountabilities

This Lecturer place is designed to offer wonderful scholarship, in addition to fulfil key educating and administrative roles in Sociology, particularly:

Educating & Studying

• To offer prime quality educating and studying and pupil help
• Mentor and help college students all through their research within the function of non-public tutor
• Set and mark evaluation of modules in accordance with College requirements and utilise on-line and digitised curricula and schooling frameworks
• Contribute to curriculum growth
• Guarantee all our college students profit from learning in a analysis intensive, analysis wonderful tutorial setting
• Present schooling for all times, that engages, challenges and helps our college students to find and fulfil their potential each whereas they’re learning with us and as soon as they’ve graduated
• Help modules at undergraduate and postgraduate ranges, together with SOC8073 Perpetual Wars? Crime, Medicine and Terror
• Present undergraduate and postgraduate taught supervision.

Analysis

• Conduct analysis that demonstrates worldwide requirements of excellence by way of originality, signifcance and rigour within the topic space of Sociology of Crime
• Contribute to the analysis profile of the varsity by publishing prime quality outputs
• Pursue exterior funding
• Exhibit impression by growing research-based options to real-world issues and have interaction with exterior stakeholders to develop the impression of your work
• Supervise PGR (postgraduate analysis) college students in a research-led college

            Administrative

• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to help your space of educating, and/or engagement for instance, recruitment
• Contribute to the broader work of the Faculty, College and College via enter to undertaking groups, working teams and committees
• Function as an energetic citizen within the Sociology neighborhood
• Contribute to the colleges worldwide, programme {and professional} physique accreditations
• To have a dedication to equality, range and inclusion and ethics, duty and sustainability

The Individual 

Data, Abilities & Expertise

Lecturer Grade F

The extent of appointment can be decided by your skill to fulfill the necessities of the particular person specification as outlined under.

• Demonstrable analysis curiosity within the Sociology of Crime
• Capability to design and ship prime quality research-led educating and make efficient use of expertise, studying supplies, assets and actions according to the Unit’s, Faculty and College educating targets to boost studying
• Capability to develop and safe analysis funding
• Expertise of or functionality to publish worldwide and world-leading analysis
• Capability to have interaction with exterior stakeholders, producing real-world impression from analysis
• Proof of growing a global analysis profile
• Capability to contribute to pupil dissertation supervision
• Capability to offer well timed pupil help, develop, mark and assess pupil assignments and supply well timed suggestions to boost the scholar studying expertise and achievement
• Capability to offer private tutoring and pastoral help
• Capability to contribute to recruitment actions for Sociology diploma programmes
• Capability to make use of digital studying setting
• Wonderful written and oral communication abilities
• Wonderful organisational, time administration and presentation abilities
• Demonstration of profitable group working
• Private resilience in a context of change and quick paced setting
• Contribute to the broader sociological inner and exterior analysis neighborhood e.g. by reviewing journal articles, peer evaluate of analysis grants, energetic engagement with related analysis clusters, and membership {of professional} our bodies

Fascinating

• Capability to make use of on-line educating strategies
• Present dedication to information sharing with the non-public and public sectors, and with civil society, with especial reference to marginalised and deprived social teams

Lecturer Grade G

Along with offering proof of your earlier expertise of the standards above, to be thought of for a Grade G Lectureship you should additionally meet the comply with standards:

• A sustained worldwide/established analysis and innovation profile and confirmed monitor report in worldwide and world-leading publications
• Proof of growing and securing grant seize
• A monitor report of participating with exterior stakeholders, producing real-world impression from analysis
• Proof of efficient use of disciplinary and proactive analysis and a developed worldwide analysis profile
• Proof of your contribution to the Sociology topic Group
• Expertise of attracting and supervising PGR college students
• Supervision of undergraduate and taught postgraduate college students’ analysis initiatives
• Substantial expertise of designing and delivering prime quality educating and studying materials, assets and actions for college kids
• Capability to undertake a administration and management function
• Proof of energetic citizenship within the Sociology neighborhood

{Qualifications}

• PhD in Sociology or Criminology (or equal)
• A very good Honours diploma (or equal) in a related topic

Fascinating

• A related Skilled Physique Membership as acceptable to the topic space
• HE educating qualification (or equal expertise)

Newcastle College is a worldwide College the place everyone seems to be handled with dignity and respect.  As a College of Sanctuary, we goal to offer a welcoming place of security for all, providing alternatives to folks fleeing violence and persecution.

We’re dedicated to being a totally inclusive college which actively recruits, helps and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We worth range in addition to have fun, help and thrive on the contributions of all of our staff and the communities they signify.  We’re proud to be an equal alternatives employer and encourage purposes from people who can complement our current groups, we imagine that success is constructed on having groups whose backgrounds and experiences replicate the range of our college and pupil inhabitants.

At Newcastle College we maintain a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the development of gender equality.  We additionally maintain a Race Equality Constitution Bronze award in recognition of our work in direction of tackling race inequality in larger schooling REC.  We’re aDisability Assured employer and can supply an interview to disabled candidates who meet the important standards for the function as a part of the supply and interview scheme.

As well as, we’re a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 26876