Lecturer in Fashion Media and Emerging Technology

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The opportunity

Within your area of expertise, we ask you to inspire our students and contribute to the development of our curriculum, bringing to life the practical, technical and theoretical aspects of your field, providing engaging and effective teaching drawn on industry or research experience.

With expertise in professional practice and a strong foundation of knowledge in teaching, industry and innovation, you will translate this into the classroom and learning of our students. Through research led enquiry and creative production processes, you will inspire this emerging future generation of creative practitioners and story tellers with energy, drive, and commitment. Your practice should consider values of ethics and diversity as part of your fashion thinking, to support creative solutions for the future of the discipline.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Jessica Bugg at jessica.bugg@fashion.arts.ac.uk

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk

About you

We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious academic practitioner who is industry, innovation or research orientated, to inspire our students through their passion for teaching emerging technologies in fashion media and related disciplines, to join the School of Media and Communication as Lecturer in Fashion Media and Emerging Technology. 

You will teach across courses and at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and be responsible for unit leadership, curriculum development and quality assurance. You will actively engage in research and scholarship to develop and support teaching delivery of new and emerging technologies.

Additionally, you will actively contribute to working relationships with colleagues and projects across the School of Media and Communication.

Candidates will need to provide a CV in addition to completing an application form. The CV of the successful candidate will be shared with and reviewed by the research funding body who are supporting this role. Confirmation of offer is subject to approval by the research funding body. The offer letter of the successful candidate will also be shared with the funding body. Please read the privacy notice linked to in the footer for further information.

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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