Further Particulars
Teaching Fellow (12 months fixed term contract)
Criminology is located at the heart of our highly regarded Department of Sociology, Social Policy &
Criminology, in the School of Social Sciences. We are seeking to make a Teaching Fellow
appointment, to cover a 12 month period of maternity leave. We welcome applications from all
areas of Criminology and especially encourage those with expertise in the fields of policing,
criminal justice, cybercrime, crime and gender, criminological/forensic psychology and
international/comparative research.
Led by Professor Jenny Fleming, our team of Criminologists boasts an international reputation in the
broad field of criminology and criminal justice studies, with particular expertise in the areas of
policing; cybercrime; public opinion research (perceptions of the police and crime); the experience of
imprisonment and violent and sexual offenders. Much of our research is interdisciplinary and
comparative in its insights to criminological and criminal justice issues. Together with colleagues
from the Faculty of Law, we run the Institute of Criminal Justice Research which draws together
colleagues from across the University in an active and flourishing academic environment for research
activity. The Institute also hosts a regular seminar series with invited academic and practitioner
speakers, and organizes high profile conferences and public events.
The Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology is responsible for the delivery of
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes in Criminology, Sociology & Social Policy with
a minor undergraduate pathway in Anthropology. Members of the Department collaborate with
researchers in the wider academic unit of Social Sciences and across the University. Social Sciences
also includes the Departments of Economics; Politics and International Relations; Social Statistics; and
Gerontology. Social Sciences is located within the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (which also
includes the Schools of Education, Geography, Mathematics, and Psychology).
Research in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
The University of Southampton is a member of the Russell Group of intensive research-led
Universities. We were ranked 11th in the UK based on the volume and quality of our research (2014
Research Excellence Framework), with over 97% of our research assessed as world-leading and
internationally excellent. In 2014 Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology joined colleagues in
Demography and Gerontology in submitting our work to the Social Policy panel. Our joint submission
was ranked in the top five nationally, with a GPA of 3.23. We are seeking candidates with an excellent
track record of research to join us in building on this success.
Teaching in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Undergraduate programmes
In 2014 we launched a new suite of undergraduate teaching programmes, designed to strengthen
specialist teaching in Criminology and to provide an exciting new range of joint honours programmes
in response to changing student demand. We now offer BSc programmes as follows:
BSc Criminology
BSc Criminology and Psychology
BSc Sociology
BSc Sociology with Anthropology
BSc Social Policy and Criminology
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BSc Sociology and Criminology
BSc Sociology and Social Policy
For more information, please see
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/undergraduate/courses/Sociology_list.page
Postgraduate programmes
The Department runs MSc Programmes in Criminology and in Sociology and Social Research, and in
International Social Policy. All sit within ESRC approved training pathways in our Southampton ESRC
Doctoral Training Centre.
For more information please see
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology/postgraduate/research_degrees.page
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology/postgraduate/taught_courses.page
In addition to these programmes, members of the Division have also been directly involved in the
development of interdisciplinary training pathways in Social Computational interface; Economic and
Social History; Energy, Environment and Resilience; Governance and Policy; and Health and Wellbeing.
Postgraduate research
The Department currently has 60 PhD students pursuing a wide range of topics, including such issues
as the online purchase of medicines; sexual assault reporting in prisons; secure children’s homes;
criminal justice responses to prisoners' reports of sexual offences committed against them while in
prison; cryptocurrencies and crime; digital piracy; credit card fraud; digital policing; and youth crime
in Uganda. For further information about the interests of recent and current students, see
www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/sociology/research/students.html
The University of Southampton: our wider research environment
Alongside Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, the School of Social Sciences is home to Economics,
Gerontology, Politics and International Relations, Social Statistics, and Social Work Studies. We play a
key role in a number of key research centres of particular relevance to this post. These include
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The Institute of Criminal Justice Research is a genuinely inter-disciplinary research hub that
interacts with colleagues, practitioners and students across a range of disciplines, including
law, policing, psychology, history and public policy. The Institute's membership base reflects
this diversity with members drawn from across the University, partner institutions and
criminal justice practice. The Institute boasts a strong seminar series that attracts high profile
speakers from around the UK; well attended public lectures and policy events that bring
together academics, practitioners, criminal justice professionals to debate topical issues. The
Institute held its first community study day recently on the subject of Expert Evidence. The
Institute's current newsletter and active website provides details of all these activities, see
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/icjr
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Advanced Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity and the Web Science Institute Cybercrime and
Cybersecurity are key global challenges that require interdisciplinary expertise. The University
of Southampton is home to The ACE Cyber Security
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cybersecurity/index.page and The Web Science Institute
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/allowing us to harness a range of experts and resources
to develop innovative approaches to complex and dynamic problems. We have well
established links with various Law Enforcement Agencies such as GCHQ, the Home Office, the
National Crime Agency, the Metropolitan Police Service, Interpol and local and regional police
forces. In addition, we have strong links with industry and commerce. We also have a
flourishing programme of Post Graduate teaching and research degrees, including the iPhD in
the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training http://dtc.webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and a
new MSc programme in Cybersecurity http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/programmes/msc-cybersecurity.
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The ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/) NCRM is a national
network of research groups, each conducting research and training in an area of social
science research methods. The co-ordinating hub has been based in Southampton since
2004. The Centre’s mission is to promote research methods capability among members of the
UK social science community across the range of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
It does this by conducting cutting-edge research and by a co-ordinated programme of training
for social scientists across the range of disciplines, in all sectors, and at all career stages.
Hub research focuses in particular on methodological innovation and interdisciplinarity.
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The Work Futures Research Centre (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wfrc/) The Work Futures
Research Centre brings together researchers from across the University including a diverse
range of disciplines from social science, education, health sciences, geography and
engineering and computer science, who are developing exciting new research about work,
organisations, training and the workforce in the 21st century. The Centre has active links
with policy makers, employers and academics.
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The ESRC Centre for Population Change
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2008/apr/08_70.shtml)
This Centre is concerned with issues surrounding migration (both internal and internal),
fertility, household change and ageing, and with the implications of population change for
economic welfare and social support at national, local, household and individual levels. The
Centre is part of a consortium including colleagues at the University of St Andrews and other
Scottish Universities. Colleagues in the centre work in partnership with the Office for National
Statistics and the General Register Office for Scotland.
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Centre for Research on Ageing (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/ageing/index.shtml)
The Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) is an international and multi-disciplinary research
centre examining key issues in ageing and the lifecourse, informing policy and debate at the
national and local level. It offers a range of part- and full-time postgraduate programmes in
Gerontology which are tailored to meet the needs of graduates, mid-career professionals, and
mature returners to education. It also provides a number of short courses for busy mid-career
professionals, new entrants to the university and the social sciences, or returnees to
education.
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Centre for Citizenship, Globalisation and Governance (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/C2G2/)
The terrain of citizenship is changing in response to global forces and bringing in its wake
new governance demands. Migration, human rights, issues of global warming, pandemics of
ill-health and a looming crisis in energy provision are challenges that cannot be contained or
addressed within national boundaries alone. Merging insights from political science and
international relations and drawing on participants throughout the School of Social Sciences
and the wider University C2G2 focuses on the central political questions of today’s world
about power, cooperation, security, inequality and democracy.
Further Information
For more information about all the Department’s activities, and about the particular interests of
individual members of staff, please visit our main website – www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology. If
you have any further questions, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Pauline Leonard,
Pauline.Leonard@southampton.ac.uk
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