Associate Lecturer – UAL Creative Computing Institute

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The opportunity

UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI) are looking for Associate Lecturers in the Creative Robotics to join them.

Associate Lecturer work involves the responsibility for delivering academic and pastoral teaching including providing formative feedback to students, enhancing their creative coding and critical knowledge and building a studio culture that enables collaborative studies and a place to evolve individual and group learning. As the course evolves, we require additional specialist expertise provided by practitioners that can inspire and motivate students to realise their ambitions to create our futures.

The Creative Robotics courses (BSc and MSc) are an exciting mix of robotics and creative practice set in the context of a world-renowned creative university. Students learn to code, work with electronics and physical computing, explore robotics in society and art and more. Students acquire a contemporary set of applied computing and engineering skills covering the dominant coding languages and workflows that support innovation in the robotics sector and creative practice. Building on these skills, and through creative practice, our students also develop an ability to innovate.

About you

Your profile should include –

• some experience of teaching within a higher education environment, and strong skills in effective planning, implementation and delivery.  
• have initiative, agility and enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• be keen to learn pedagogies approaches adopting flipped classes when required and blended learning (some prerecord, some live) and work with the students as a team.
• have an established practice and a professional profile in creative robotics or adjacent fields.
• be actively engaged with current discipline debates on social impact and ethical approaches for creative robotics.
• bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of computational practice.
• have specialist knowledge in coding (C, C++, Python, machine learning or similar) and physical computing.
• be able to deliver content in these areas to a cohort of students who have just started learning coding or are staring coding for the first time.
• hold experience with frameworks such as but not limited to ROS or similar.  

Your application 

When applying for Associate Lecturer work, please ensure you address the criteria listed in the person specification as part of your personal statement.

Please also note that uploading additional documents is not compulsory but possible to showcase a link to your portfolio and other information useful for the shortlisting panel to review. 

Queries

Should you have any queries about this opportunity please email ccistaffingadmin@arts.ac.uk 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is home to a diverse body of over 6,000 academic, professional and technical staff who support more than 21,000 students from 130 countries.

The University is made up of 6 renowned Colleges: 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 is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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