Practices Tutor: Typography – BA Graphic Communications Design

The opportunity

Central Saint Martins is seeking an experienced educator to teach GCD Practices: Typography within the BA Graphic Communication Design course on an 18-week 0.6 fixed-term contract providing parental leave cover.

You will be working within a collaborative and supportive course team who see the course as a space for us – a community of students, tutors, and practitioners – to explore and interrogate the vast and ever-expanding field Graphic Communication Design together.

As a GCD Practices tutor, you will play a key role in delivering a sequence of units delivered to all students on BA Graphic Communication Design across UG levels 4, 5 and 6. You will contribute to teaching, curriculum development and ongoing scholarship across the course, with a particular focus on Typography. 

You will deliver teaching and learning activities that support students’ engagement with typography as a practical and critical discipline, incorporating digital typesetting and letterpress, layout, grids and typographic systems, typographic detail, editorial design, form, and language within your teaching. 

This role involves planning and delivery of workshops, seminars and taught sessions, as well as supporting students through formative and summative assessment and providing clear, timely feedback. You will maintain responsibility for progress tutorials for allocated student groups, monitoring their engagement, attendance, and overall development, and ensuring that records are accurate and up to date.

This is a 0.6 role with a work pattern of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays. Interviews are currently planned for Monday 12th January 2026, if you apply, please hold this date in your diary. The start date for the role will be Monday 02 February 2026

Additionally, we will be recruiting an Associate Lecturer during this period to also teach into typography. Please let us know if you would also like to be considered for this role.

Your profile

You will bring an undergraduate degree in Graphic Communication Design (or a related field) and experience teaching and assessing in higher education. You take an innovative, reflective approach to pedagogy and embed equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of your practice. You are committed to understanding and supporting the diverse experiences of students. You will contribute to the discipline through research, knowledge exchange or professional practice aligned with the goals of the Programme, College and University. Organised and resourceful, you plan and manage your workload effectively, and you work collaboratively and respectfully with colleagues across a wide range of professional groups. Higher-level qualifications (MA, PhD or equivalent research degree) are desirable.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: 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 also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.

Application process

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