Lecturer – Unit Leader MA Illustration Practices (Online)

We are looking for an experienced educator to develop teaching and learning materials for ‘Emergent Resilient Practices’, a unit within the new fully online MA Illustration Practices course. This future-facing unit explores how emerging technologies are reshaping illustration practice and supports students to develop critically informed, resilient, and adaptable approaches to image-making in response to rapidly changing social, cultural, and technological conditions. 

Working closely with the Course Leader, Learning Designers, and the UAL Online production team, you will help create engaging and inclusive learning experiences for a global community of learners. This is an exciting opportunity to shape innovative online arts education and contribute to the development of a new generation of critically engaged illustration practitioners. Further information about working in this model is provided in the Job Description. 

We are looking for someone with specialist postgraduate teaching experience in this subject area and knowledge of expanded illustration practices. You’ll be able to write projects, plan activities and assessments to fulfil the vision of the validated course. You’ll be ready to bring readings, resources and references from illustration and other disciplines into your teaching materials, and to bring other expert voices into the unit as guest contributors. You will bring a strong understanding of contemporary image-making practices and the ways in which emerging technologies are reshaping creative production, communication, and culture. 

We are particularly interested in applicants whose practice engages across several of the following areas:  

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning 
• Creative coding and computational practice 
• Networked and platform-based cultures 
• Data, systems, and infrastructures 
• Critical and speculative design 
• Digital storytelling and world-building 
• Participatory and socially engaged practices 
• Ecological, ethical, and future-facing approaches to technology 

 

You will be able to develop learning activities that lead critical engagement with questions of authorship, representation, ethics, power, sustainability, and technological change, enabling future students to develop independent and critically reflective practices. 

 

You'll be ready to create a contemporary, socially engaged and decolonised curriculum that supports the university principles of Climate Racial and Social Justice. 

 

You’ll have good teamworking and communication skills and comfortable with hybrid working methods.  

 

You don’t need extensive experience of online teaching and learning, but you do need to be open to the advantages of flexible fully online delivery to widen access to Higher Education. 

 

In your application please confirm your availability to work 2 days per week in this role, starting in September 2026.  

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Gareth Proskourine-Barnett, Course Leader MA Illustration Practices (Online) / g.proskourinebarnett@arts.ac.uk

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact ccw.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk.

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