Position Overview & Specifications
Aston Law School’s mission is to be a distinctive law school that combines academic rigour with practical insight, for ‘future ready’ LLB and LLM graduates. We do so as The Guardian’s University of the Year 2020, with Gold TEF status, and as one of the leading universities for Entrepreneurship and Social Mobility.
We are an independent law school, with strong links to the world-renowned Aston Business School. Our programmes teach a combination of ‘traditional’ law subjects alongside creative and innovative subjects that provide the academic grounding for skills and attributes of modern lawyers (for example, legal project management). We do so in three broad pathways: the Law of Business, the Business of Law and the Future of Law; and by drawing on our links with businesses and the legal profession.
We have plans for our strategic growth that involve recruitment of a Teaching Fellow at grade 8 or 9, to join our colleagues who are committed to making a difference in the teaching of Contract Law and Commercial Law.
If you have an interest in pedagogical scholarship, we will be keen to support your continued engagement in this.
Finally, in addition to being a team player and committed to social mobility, the successful candidates will recognise the importance of excellent student support.
Aston University and Aston Law School are committed to the principles of the Athena SWAN Charter http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charter-marks/athena-swan/ recognised by bronze awards.
We will therefore adopt an inclusive recruitment process which involves sharing interview questions with short-listed candidates in advance (and we will not deviate from the subject matter of those questions); encouraging candidates, if they wish, to attend interview with notes of their preparation; and to provide feedback to all short-listed candidates.
This post is available to start immediately. Informal enquiries about it should be addressed to Jonathan Fortnam (Dean of Aston Law School) by email j.fortnam@aston.ac.uk.