Lecturer in Bespoke Tailoring

The opportunity

This exciting part-time opportunity is a chance to bring your professional expertise and teaching experience to the BA (Hons) Bespoke Tailoring course and help develop the next generation of tailoring and fashion practitioners.

Working collaboratively within the course team, you will contribute to teaching, assessment, curriculum development and scholarly activity, sharing your knowledge of bespoke tailoring, cutting, garment construction and contemporary fashion practice. Our students engage with the fashion and tailoring industries through live projects, placements, industry visits and collaborations. Providing both academic and pastoral support, you will help them to develop exceptional technical skills alongside creative and critical approaches to tailoring, encouraging them to challenge convention and develop their own professional identities.

Your profile

You will have strong professional or academic expertise in bespoke tailoring or a closely related area of fashion practice, together with experience of teaching and assessment in a higher education environment, or equivalent experience.

Your teaching and assessment experience may have been gained through a permanent, fractional, hourly paid or visiting academic role, or through another relevant educational or professional setting where you have responsibility for supporting and assessing learners. We welcome applications from both experienced higher education educators and established tailoring or fashion practitioners who can demonstrate relevant teaching and assessment experience.

You will also have a relevant undergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience and be able to demonstrate a strong record of teaching, professional practice, research, knowledge exchange or other activity that contributes to the development of the subject.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can explore how traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation can work together. Your expertise might be rooted in traditional bespoke tailoring, contemporary fashion, pattern cutting, menswear, womenswear, experimental tailoring or another closely related area.

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.

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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 application portal. 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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