Lecturer in Media Law

Department

Ranked 51st amongst law schools globally (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2021) Essex Law School is recognised across the world for taking excellence in research and excellence in education equally seriously.

As one of the largest law schools in the UK, we offer a wide range of courses to our students. Alongside our single-honours LLB, we deliver joint LLBs with various other subjects such as human rights, politics, philosophy, business, finance, and criminology. We also run an award-winning joint English and French law degree. At the postgraduate level, we have courses in subjects including human rights (both LLMs and interdisciplinary MAs), business and commercial law, international trade law, maritime law and international law. The appointee will demonstrate a commitment to providing an engaging, innovative curriculum that meets the modern needs of our diverse student body.

Duties of the Role

The School of Law is recruiting a lecturer to join our diverse community of scholars. The successful candidate will have subject expertise in media law and a desired ability to contribute to other legal subject areas. They will contribute to teaching on the industry-accredited courses for the journalism degree as well as to our LLB programme. The post will be based in the Law School, with some teaching responsibilities for the journalism degree run by the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies. The successful candidate will deliver innovative and engaging teaching, supervision and learning support to our students, select appropriate methods of assessment and feedback to learners, supervise student projects, and undertake leadership duties.

They will engage in individual and/or collaborative research activity (resulting in internationally excellent publications) that is in keeping with REF criteria

Please see full list of duties in the jobpack attached.

Skills and qualifications required

Applicants will have a relevant doctoral level research degree or equivalent professional experience/practice or be close to completion of a PhD, as well as having an undergraduate/postgraduate degree in law (or equivalent professional experience). They will have experience in teaching at undergraduate/postgraduate levels, or demonstrable potential to engage in teaching and learning support in engaging and innovative ways.

At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.

To support this commitment we have our Global Forum , a staff-led network that promotes and celebrates the rich cultural diversity among Essex staff, and our Colchester campus based Faith Centre , which hosts regular services, meetings and events organised by our chaplains and faith representatives.

We particularly welcome applications from those from an ethnic minority as they are under-represented in the School of Law.

Please use the 'Apply' button to read further information about this role including the full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role. You will also find details of how to make your application here.

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