Hourly Paid Lecturer – Project Co-Leader (Costume), Collaborative and Collective Practices

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The opportunity

The Collaborative and Collective Practices Unit, which this work contributes to, is designed to address:
• Welcome and Belonging
• Embedding Climate Racial Social Justice Principals
• Engaging with the wider community and services

This unit explores transdisciplinary, collaborative curriculum design
to equip students with:
• Developing confidence to work across disciplines
• Working within a multidisciplinary team
• Harnessing the ongoing potential of new, transdisciplinary
working across disciplines in a globalised world
• Learning personal and cultural values, intercultural awareness,
self-directed learning and co-creation of knowledge
• Employability skills such as communication, teamwork, selfmanagement and resilience
• Networking, communication, teamwork and presentation
(all essential skills required to undertake the challenges of
the creative industries.
• Creation of a growing community and a sense of belonging.

The unit is focused on teaching and providing an opportunity for collaboration, and reflection on the process undertaken as part of a collaborative project (as opposed to focusing on the outcomes produced, eg. a costume). The outcomes are a vehicle for the process in the case of this unit. The Unit has new Learning Outcomes which are all centered around UAL’s Justice Principles (Social, Racial and Climate Justice) and these form the cornerstone of any project focus and planning.

As a Co-Project Leader on this Unit you will:
• Support the students to function in a
collaborative way, problem-solve as a group and help them find
direction
• Build group dynamics and engagement
• Deliver unit content and lead discussions, crits and activities in
response to emerging group challenges
• Guide students in their individual reflective practice, and group
outcomes
• Support identification of connections between projects and the
university’s justice principles and professional practice skills,
and can identify potential connections to other teams
• Provide assistance in developing an exhibition or activity as a
social and celebration of the unit, showcasing student work,
knowledge and learning
• Support the final submission and guide student practice in
reflective writing

About you

The successful candidate will possess:

– Costume making skills and techniques, including Creative Cut
– Collaborative skills and a willingness and enthusiasm to work across discipline to co-lead, with a lecturer whose work is based in a different discipline, an educational project as part of the Collaborative and Collective Practices Unit at Wimbledon College of Arts, teaching collaboration group work, and reflection in the context of making, which embeds UAL’s key Climate, Racial and Social Justice Principles.
– Ability and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
– Ability to create an environment which fosters: communication, teamwork, self-management, resilience and intercultural awareness
– Desirable but not essential: Catsuit-making teaching supported by technician

Please note, there is no specific Person Specification document for this vacancy, please consider the points above and in the ‘The Role’ sections when completing your application. 

If selected for interview, you also have the opportunity to be added to our talent pool for future hours.

For any questions that aren’t answered within the available documentation, please contact Adele on a.morris@arts.ac.uk

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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.

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