Senior Lecturer in Law

Birmingham City University

Business, Law and Social Sciences

Job Category: Academic and Research

The full-time starting salary is normally £52,462.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £60,842.00 per annum.

Interviews to take place on Wednesday 01 October 2025.

The School of Law and Social Sciences at Birmingham City University is a large, vibrant, collegiate, and diverse community of legal scholarship, learning and practice with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation and transformation through legal professional practice and education. The Department of Law provides academic and professional legal education across all levels, from foundation year to PhD, including our flagship LLB and LLM programmes including an exciting SQE offer. The Department is home to well over a thousand students and has trained many of the legal professionals in the region and beyond.  

The Department is currently looking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Law.  The successful candidate will contribute to all areas of activity, in particular teaching on our LLB and LLM Programmes.  We would particularly encourage applications from candidates with a passion for transformative legal education and an interest in research aligned to our key strengths. We welcome applications from applicants who can demonstrate either:

• Experience of academic management, for example (but not limited to), course leadership; or
• Experience of professional legal practice, either in a profit or non-profit setting.

The Department has a proud tradition of professional legal education and works closely with the legal profession both locally and globally. We are extremely proud of the fusion of teaching, practice and research which provides a high-quality student experience producing excellent outcomes. The Department has an applied and focused philosophy regarding teaching, and our entire suite of undergraduate programmes has recently been redesigned to allow students to enjoy a curriculum which reflects the legal professional practice expertise of the Department.  

For informal enquiries, please contact:

Informal enquiries regarding the role should be addressed to Duncan French (duncan.french@bcu.ac.uk), Head of the Department of Law.

Please click the below link to download the Job Description:

Job Description - Senior Lecturer

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Guidance for Applicants 

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly. 

About Us

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

Apply Before: 21/09/2025, 23:59