Lecturer Job at Colchester, Hybrid Full Time

Duties of the Role

The purpose of the role(s) is to contribute to the full or partial delivery of our UG and PGT modules. Each Lecturer can expect to teach across 2 to 3 modules per term in Autumn and Spring, with additional marking, outreach and pastoral duties in Summer term.

For one of the roles, we seek criminological area expertise, and the role-holder will be asked to focus on a selection of the following, with the capacity to specify preference: SC111, SC555 Formative Debates in Criminology, SC204 New Directions in Criminology, SC205 Policing, Punishment and Society or other modules subject to expertise, along with UG dissertation supervision and pastoral support and inclusive engagement of our students. Applicants are encouraged to signal preferred modules of the options listed above. Mode of delivery may include a mixture of module convening, class teaching, lecturing and marking.

For one of the roles, we require specific expertise in data science. The role-holder will convene two core 2nd year modules on our data science degree: SC207 Introduction to Social Data Science and SC290 Social Data Science: Uncover, Understand, Unleash. For this role, it is essential that candidates should be proficient with Python, the Pandas data analysis library and a data visualisation library such as Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly etc. Also Desirable: Proficiency with Text analysis in Python using libraries such as Spacy, BERTopic or Scikit-Learn. Proficiency with Network Analysis using NetworkX and/or Gephi. In addition, this role-holder will also teach classes across our UG criminology and sociology provision, including SC111, SC204 New Directions in Criminology, or SC205 Policing, Punishment and Society, with capacity to specify preference.

Two appointments will be made at 0.6 FTE. This is a teaching-oriented post, and duties are centered on teaching and student pastoral care. The roles will include active mentorship and career support, as well as access to Department research funding for conference attendance and/or research dissemination.

Skills and qualifications required

The successful candidate(s) will have substantial experience of teaching Sociology or Criminology at undergraduate or postgraduate level, with a relevant doctoral level degree in Sociology or other social science discipline, including Criminology. To satisfy the requirements of an external funding body, the applicant must have submitted their PhD thesis by the time of the contract start date, but if shortlisted, interviews can take place before submission of the thesis.

The postholder(s) will also have some experience of designing and planning of learning activities, developing effective learning environments and approaches to student support and guidance. The candidate(s) will be expected to show an ability and willingness to enhance the Department’s education strengths and outreach goals. The candidates may be asked to take part in occasional outreach activities during a weekend or Easter term break, while not exceeding the pro-rata weekly allocation. 

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