Associate Lecturer – UAL Creative Computing Institute

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The opportunity

UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI) are looking for Associate Lecturers in the Computer and Data Science and AI 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 Computer and Data Science and AI courses (BSc and MSc) are an exciting mix of computing, data and AI creative practice set in the context of a world-renowned creative university. Students learn to code, work with electronics and physical computing, explore computing and artificial intelligence techniques in society 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 computing, data science and AI sector. 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 pre-record, some live) and work with the students as a team.
• have an established practice and a professional profile in computer and data science or adjacent fields.
• be actively engaged with current discipline debates on social impact and ethical approaches of computer and data science.
• bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of computational practice.
• have specialist knowledge in coding (C, C++, Python, machine learning and other Web programming) and physical computing, data science and AI.
• 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.

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. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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