Senior Lecturer Costume Design – 0.6 Fixed Term Contract

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The opportunity

Join our team at University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts for an exciting one-year, part-time Senior Lecturer position in Costume Design within the world leading BA Costume for Theatre and Screen course.

As a vital member of our committed team, through teaching, unit leadership, and on-going scholarship, you’ll contribute to the growth of this popular course, fostering innovation, collaboration, and subject currency. Your expertise will contribute to shaping the direction of the course, embracing new technologies and approaches in costume design.

Collaborating closely with the Course Leader and working on a range of projects, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and enhance outcomes alongside our existing traditional methods of construction and compliment the current team’s academic portfolio. The student experience is at the heart of what we do and your skills within costume will inform and motivate our students’ practice and learning opportunities. 

About you

We’re interested in applicants from a Costume Design background with excellent understanding of how storytelling can aid and communicate costume design, inform characterisation and realise costume for performance.

Candidates must have experience teaching at HE level and be able to demonstrate flexible teaching practices to a diverse student body. An understanding of the Costume Design process that includes text analysis, broad and wide-reaching research strategies and concept development that can be applied to the design and realisation of costume outcomes is essential to the role.

An understanding of innovation in the fabrication and construction of individual design solutions is important to allow student designers the opportunity to produce high spec outcomes, utilising a range of pattern cutting and construction methodologies. Briefs may explore historical, traditional, contemporary or Avant Garde concepts and a familiarity with a broad visual language and understanding of audience to facilitate this will be key.

Experience of Costume Design from concept to realisation and a willingness to explore how your experience can enhance and diversify the quality of work that our students produce is equally important.

Interviews will take place on 19/09/23.

For any further information about the role, please contact Course Leader, Kevin Freeman k.freeman@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Adrienne Marsh, Resourcing Adviser jobs.ccw@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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