Sociology Social Policy & Criminology

Location:  Highfield Campus
Salary:   £30,942 to £41,526
Full Time Permanent
Closing Date:  Friday 30 April 2021
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  1356121CC

These are exciting times for Criminology at Southampton. Our suite of undergraduate degree programmes in Criminology are attracting exceptional numbers of well-qualified students. Building on our success in REF2014 and our sustained student intake over the last few years we are now seeking to recruit an inspiring and enthusiastic Criminologist to join our friendly, hard-working team in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. The Department was in the UK top five for research power and output (Latest REF, 2014) and is home to The Institute of Criminal Justice Research (ICJR). Criminology is ranked Top 10 in the UK (The Times Good University Guide 2021). Our BSc Criminology and Psychology programme is the only Russell Group Criminology and Psychology programme with British Psychological Society (BPS) accreditation. Our Postgraduate programmes are ranked 9^th in the Sunday Times 2021 Good University Guide, and 5^th in the Russell Group.

The successful candidate will further develop the curriculum that we offer on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, enrich the intellectual culture of Criminology within the Department, and share in the strategic development of, and continuing investment in, Criminology as central to Social Sciences at Southampton. We welcome applications from all areas of Criminology, but especially encourage teaching and scholarship in counter-terrorism, including violent far right and Incel extremism, conspiratorial extremism such as QAnon, and work at the intersection of criminology, psychology, anthropology and quantitative research methods.

You will have a PhD or equivalent professional qualification and experience in Criminology or aligned subject area completed or close to completion. You will also have the expertise to significantly strengthen our teaching profile and contribute to our intellectual community. You will have relevant experience of teaching in Higher Education and be able to evidence emerging strengths in research and publication.

Be part of the dynamic development of Criminology at the University of Southampton, an institution in the top 100 of world Universities (QS 2021) and one of the UK’s top 15 research-intensive universities.

For more information about our activities, and the particular interests of individual members of staff, please visit our main website https://www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology/ 

If you have any further questions, please contact the Head of Department, Dr Craig Webber c.webber@soton.ac.uk

Two Job Descriptions are attached. One for the Level 4 Teaching Fellow position, one for the Level 5 Senior Teaching Fellow position. Whether you are appointed at Level 4 or Level 5 will be dependent on experience.

Application procedure:

You should submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need any assistance, please call Annabelle Trimm (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 2750. Please quote reference 1356121CC on all correspondence.