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Lecturer in MA Graphic Communication Design
Vacancy ID
12489
College/Exec Group
Central Saint Martins
Location
CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary
£44,375 - £52,977 per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Hours
22.2
Apply by
23 June 2026, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
About the course and programme
MA Graphic Communication Design explores how the production of knowledge is intertwined with its form, context, and circulation. The course takes an expanded approach to the idea of research, combining studio and writing practice to engage critically with graphic design as both a creative practice and a subject of study. Through iterative and open-ended experimentation with visual media and tools of communication, students develop work that investigates existing knowledge, activates positions, and projects new forms of knowledge—within and beyond the discipline.
Engaging with studio and writing practice as a form of rigorous enquiry, students and staff together explore how graphic design is a situated and relational discipline that both reflects and reconfigures its cultural, social, and environmental conditions. From this position, our community of practitioners critically interrogates the academic and professional contexts for practice as well as the very nature of the discipline itself, continually co-defining and re-defining the expanding field of graphic design.
MA Graphic Communication Design is part of the Graphic Communication Design Programme, which also includes BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design and MA Communicating Complexity. Our approach to subject spans an expanding assemblage of media and agendas. We encourage a wide range of practices and concerns, which are united by a shared appreciation for the ways that thinking and making advance one another. Our programme facilitates a broad and dynamic community of students and staff to thrive through graphic and communication design in diverse and meaningful ways. Our goal as a programme is to ask and answer questions through and about graphic communication design.
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About the role
MA Graphic Communication Design is recruiting a Lecturer to work in collaboration with the rest of the staff team to develop and deliver curriculum across both years of the course. The Lecturer will be expected to:
- support students in the development of independent, open-ended, and rigorous research-led graphic design practices;
- support the development of critical and mature engagement in graphic design practice through attention to form and production;
- help students contextualise their practice within graphic design and in relation to broader discourses;
- broaden the range of perspectives represented within the course through development of reading lists, course events, and other curricular initiatives; and
- provide professional development and pastoral support to students.
Many of these goals will be supported through a range of strategic course projects, such as a seminar/workshop series or curricular development project. The Lecturer will be asked to manage the resources, materials, and cooperative relationships relevant to these projects, either in collaboration with, or as delegated by, the Course Leader. The Lecturer will also act as a tutorial group leader for the course (alongside Associate Lecturers). Each tutor takes primary responsibility for a small group of students, leading weekly tutorial sessions and guiding students’ development through the course curriculum.
The responsibilities associated with this role will also respond to academic and structural changes that are expected to come in line with UAL’s review of postgraduate teaching frameworks.
This role offers the potential for meaningful development across many areas of academic practice.
A PhD is not required for this role, but we will consider it as additional evidence of rigorous and critical engagement with the field—as we will other relevant academic and professional experience.
Additional opportunities
We are interested in hearing from a range of applicants with a demonstrated commitment to all aspects of graphic communication design practice and/or higher education in graphic communication design. Shortlisted candidates who are not offered this Lecturer role but are considered appointable will be invited to be added to a pool of Associate Lecturers within the Graphic Communication Design Programme. Candidates added to this pool can then be matched to hourly-paid staffing needs that arise over a 12-month period across all courses in the programme (including undergraduate and postgraduate).
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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