Assistant Lecturer in Criminology

(Specified Purpose Contract)

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Lecturer in Criminology on a specified purpose contract, for maternity leave cover, to support the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate Criminology programmes.

The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of undergraduate and master’s students.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential

• A master’s degree in Criminology or a cognate discipline to at least a 2.1 standard (fully completed at the time of application).
• A good broad knowledge of Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly of the core subjects of Criminology as delivered at Maynooth University;
• A strong academic record in teaching and research;
• Experience of and a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, programme development and academic innovation;
• Experience of, and commitment to, working in an interdisciplinary setting;
• Good administrative, organisational, teamwork and communication skills.

Desirable

• A PhD in Criminology or a cognate discipline.
• A record of scholarly work and publication of international quality, demonstrating potential to become a significant contributor in their field;
• A capacity to teach in any one or more of the following areas of expertise: Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice; Desistance; Sentencing: Youth Justice.
• Experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate taught students.

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