Senior Lecturer in Creative Direction for Fashion

The opportunity

Help shape the next generation of creative leaders in the Fashion industry. 

London College of Fashion is seeking an accomplished creative practitioner to join us as Senior Lecturer in Creative Direction for Fashion. 

Based within the School of Media and Communication, you will help shape the BA (Hons) Creative Direction for Fashion course, contributing to a future-facing curriculum that responds to cultural, technological, social and environmental change. 

Your teaching will explore contemporary creative direction across physical, digital and blended communication environments. You might be guiding students as they develop a visual identity, interrogate the cultural impact of a campaign, experiment with creative technologies and AI, or consider how creative direction can influence social and environmental change. 

You will encourage students to understand creative direction not simply as an aesthetic discipline, but as a strategic, cultural and ethical practice. Through teaching, assessment, tutorials and collaborative projects, you will help them develop distinctive creative voices, strategic confidence, cultural intelligence and a thoughtful understanding of representation, inclusion and intersectionality. 

Working closely with the Course Leader and wider course team, you will bring emerging technologies, digital cultures and evolving creative methodologies into teaching and curriculum development. You will also build relationships with industry, cultural organisations and community partners, creating opportunities that strengthen student learning, employability and graduate outcomes.

Your profile

You will bring experience of teaching and assessment in higher education, or equivalent educational experience, alongside a relevant undergraduate degree or equivalent professional expertise. A teaching qualification such as a PGCert, or Senior Fellowship of Advance HE, is essential.

You will also have significant professional experience in creative direction, fashion communication, creative strategy, art direction, image-making, visual storytelling, brand communication or a related field, together with evidence of professional practice, scholarship or research that informs contemporary creative direction and creative leadership. 

You will be an engaging and inclusive communicator with a strong understanding of contemporary creative industries. We are particularly interested in applicants whose practice, scholarship or research engages with creative direction through the lens of sustainable and responsible futures, digital and blended experiences, visual storytelling, creative technologies and AI, interdisciplinary practice, cultural innovation, or social and environmental change.

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

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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