Job reference
REQ0001950
Date posted
18/09/2025
Application closing date: Midnight
21/10/2025
Location
Leeds
Salary
Grade 10 (competitive salary & benefits)
Package
Please refer to Candidate Pack
Job category/type
Academic/Research
Head of Subject - Law (Postgraduate)
Job description
Leeds Beckett is a modern, professional university with a dedicated and diverse community. Our vision is to be an excellent, accessible, globally engaged university contributing positively to a thriving northern economy. Our mission is to ensure we use our knowledge and resources to make a positive and decisive difference to people, communities and organisations.
We are a community of around 23,000 students from over 140 countries and 2,200 staff, and our history dates to the founding of Leeds Mechanics Institute in 1824. We are a major organisation in our region, and the University contributes many millions of pounds to the local economy each year.
Our Law School sits in the heart of the great city of Leeds, the most important legal centre outside London and home to over 200 law firms employing more than 10,000 professionals. It is perfectly placed to ensure all our undergraduate, postgraduate, full and part-time students can access the wealth of practical experience and employment opportunities available on our doorstep.
We work closely with employers and partners to help our graduates become ready for work, ready for life and ready to seize all the opportunities that lie ahead. This is strengthened by our commitment to student success, innovation, enterprise, global reach and strong local impact in an increasingly competitive Higher Education environment.
We wish to appoint an experienced, inspiring and enthusiastic individual to join our team as the Head of Law (Postgraduate) taking a lead on all taught postgraduate activities.
* Applications are encouraged from suitably qualified staff who can evidence excellence in leadership, teaching and research.
* The successful candidate will:
o hold a professional legal qualification and a doctorate in a relevant legal area to the work of Leeds Law School;
o Demonstrate and evidence excellent leadership skills;
o Be an inspiring teacher; and
o Have a strong track record in both research and securing external funding.
* The title of Reader or Professor may be available to suitably qualified candidates.
Closing date: Tuesday 21st October :59)
Working here means you'll have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.
We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from women and black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post.