Associate Lecturer

Role Description

Department

York Law School is looking to appoint a number of associate lecturers in law (in total the equivalent of 1.0 full-time post) to act as problem-based learning (PBL) and professional legal skills tutors. The candidates will join our existing team of PBL tutors to meet the needs of our growing undergraduate student numbers and development of an SQE programme. The post will be part-time (0.4 to 0.8 FTE, by agreement) but may in exceptional cases also be full-time. The work will primarily be during teaching and assessment periods. We have a need for teaching tutors who can support student learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level across a range of substantive law and professional legal skills modules and who can contribute to various aspects of the SQE programme. In addition to a grounding in all aspects of the foundations of legal knowledge for the purposes of delivering PBL sessions, we are particularly interested in members who staff who can contribute to areas such as family law, employment law, professional legal skills and legal clinical supervision.

As the only Law School in the UK to base our undergraduate degrees on problem-based learning (PBL), we offer a distinctive and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.  We teach the foundation subjects of legal knowledge (public law, the law of the EU, criminal law, obligations, and property including equity and trusts) through PBL in an integrated set of modules in years 1 and 2, with students learning the law through working on scenarios spanning more than one of the foundation subjects. We host the Baroness Hale Law Clinic, which provides a base not only for teaching but also for ethnographic and socially aware research into law.  You will join a friendly, collegial, and close-knit community of teachers and researchers, and will benefit from a high degree of support from colleagues at all levels.

Main purpose of the role

• To lead problem-based learning and professional legal skills workshops, seminars, tutorials and other forms of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• To assess students across a range of activities
• To develop and apply innovative and appropriate teaching techniques and material which create interest, understanding and enthusiasm amongst students.
• To carry out on-going curriculum review, including module content and materials and contribute to the development of teaching and learning strategies.
• To undertake effectively a range of administrative responsibilities.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

• Undergraduate or other higher degree in law of England and Wales, or equivalent professional qualification in law
• Detailed knowledge in the law of England and Wales acquired through study, teaching, or professional experience
• Highly developed communication skills to engage effectively with a wide ranging audience, both orally and in writing, using a range of media
• Ability to design and deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching material either across a range of modules including professional skills-based modules or SQE subjects.
• Ability to assess and supervise the work of students, provide advice on study skills and learning support to students across different levels of academic ability, and assist them with learning problems
• Experience, from an academic or professional context, of different techniques that you can use to enthuse and engage students or other learners.

Interview date: to be confirmed

For informal enquiries: please contact Dr Patrick Gallimore (Deputy Head of School), by telephone (01904- 325802) or email (patrick.gallimore @york.ac.uk).

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork