Lecturer (Criminology)

**Job Purpose**
To contribute to teaching across a portfolio of criminology undergraduate and postgraduate courses, assessment and administration processes associated with these courses; and undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in School of Social and Political Sciences.
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**For appointment at Grade** 8, the postholder will make a substantial contribution to delivering and leading a range of teaching, supervision and assessment activities, across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**-2. Deliver a range of teaching, supervision and assessment activities across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the Subject/School.
3. Carry out course administration within required timescales ensuring effective communication of information, in particular assessment requirements and criteria and timely and constructive feedback on assessment.
4. Participate fully in examination and other assessment processes, as appropriate, using a variety of methods and techniques and to provide effective, timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning.
5. Make effective use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, course organisation, feedback and assessment. This may involve blended and/or online provision.
6. Ensure an inclusive and evidence-based approach to facilitating learning in a range of face to face and potentially online delivery formats such as tutorials, lectures, problem based
learning, that promotes student participation and learning outcome attainment.
7. Engage in scholarship by undertaking methodologically rigorous, educationally relevant, enquiries into student learning and disseminate evidence to enhance your own, and potentially others’, teaching practices. 8. Attend and participate in appropriate seminars and conferences to support research-led teaching, scholarship and/or professional practice in your disciplinary area.
9. Develop effective working relationships with students and, in partnership with relevant student services teams, respond appropriately to the diverse range of learning approaches and learner needs.
10. Develop relationships with external stakeholders in support of knowledge exchange, public understanding and appropriate forms of outreach such as widening access.
11. Supervise individual student projects at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level, and to contribute to the supervision and training of postgraduate research students, as appropriate, to ensure their effective development.
12. Participate in local, and potentially overseas, activities associated with student recruitment (e.g. open days), orientation and induction and other School and University initiatives such as support for student transitions, employability and student mobility as appropriate.
14. Engage in continuing professional development activities as appropriate
15. To contribute to the enhancement of the University’s international profile in line with the University’s Strategic Plan, Inspiring People Changing The World.

**For appointment at Grade 8, in addition to the duties and responsibilities above**:

16. Take a lead in the on-going development and design of the curriculum in a manner which supports a research-led and scholarly approach to student learning and assessment, making a substantial contribution to the teaching and learning activities within the School.
17. Develop new and effective approaches to the use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, organisation, feedback, and assessment.

**Qualifications**

**Essential**
A1 Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 12 (PhD) or equivalent professional and/or teaching experience in a similar or related role.

**Knowledge and Skills**

**Essential**-C2 Ability to communicate material of a specialist or highly technical nature and to be effective both orally and in writing at a level appropriate to the activity.


**For Appointment at Grade 8**:

C5 Extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in in the areas of gender-based violence, policing and/or justice to develop teaching programmes/methodologies/learning support.
C6 Proven ability to design, review and enhance multiple learning, teaching and assessment programmes.
C7 Ability to contribute to broader leadership and management activities along with an awareness of current and future priorities of the University/College/School/Service.

**Desirable**
D1 Demonstrable expertise in social research methods.

**Experience**

**Essential**-E2 Demonstrated commitment to open research, as appropriate to the discipline, through open data, open code, open educational resources and practices that support replication.
E3 Proven commitment to supporting the career development of colleagues and to other forms of collegiality appropriate to the career stage

**For Appointment at Grade 8**:

E4Track record of scholarship and development and delivery of teaching, a