Lecturer Smart and Digital Textile Design

The opportunity

As a Lecturer in Smart and Digital Textiles for BA (Hons) Textile Design, you will work within a creative team who value textiles as an expansive and essential discipline, central to interdisciplinary collaboration and future-facing design.

 

In this role, you will lead on teaching and curriculum development with a focus on smart textiles, coding, digital workflows and emerging material technologies. You’ll deliver practice-based learning that supports students to explore how democratised technologies, textiles and culture could intersect in new ways within an ethical and futures framework.

 

The course is part of the Design and Material Practices Programme within the Design School and is based at Chelsea College of Arts.

 

Your profile

We are looking for candidates with experience in teaching and assessment in Higher Education, holding a relevant undergraduate degree in design or a related subject. This role is particularly suited to individuals with a background in smart textiles, coding and emerging material technologies, with an appetite for developing Textile Design education fit for future purpose.

 

Your experience should be also supported by evidence of research, knowledge exchange, or professional practice that contributes to advancing the discipline.

 

Strong communication skills, effective planning and a collaborative approach are also essential.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Claire Anderson / c.anderson@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Christine Crouch / jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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