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Associate Lecturer – MA Innovation Management
Vacancy ID
12805
College/Exec Group
Central Saint Martins
Location
CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary
£61.88 – 77.88 per hour of teaching and associated duties (enhanced)
Contract
Fixed Term
Hours
TBC
Apply by
11 November 2026, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
We are looking for an Associate Lecturer to join our MA Innovation Management (MAIM) course, based in the Creative Enterprise Programme, S-School at Central Saint Martins (CSM), University of the Arts London.
For almost 20 years, MA Innovation Management (MAIM) has attracted an ambitious community of students and practitioners from the creative industries, social sciences, technology, business, entrepreneurship and public services. As one of the first courses to situate innovation management within an art and design college, MAIM has developed a distinctive approach connecting design-led, social and cultural innovation with critical futures thinking, technological change, systems thinking, and emerging care-centred and regenerative practices.
Grounded in academic enquiry and engaged with real-world industry professionals and briefs, students develop creative, strategic and adaptive leadership competencies through critical enquiry, experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration. They examine values and ethical questions, while gaining transferable skills of innovation research, project management, teamwork, communication and facilitation, preparing them to navigate complexity and shape innovation across diverse sectors and contexts.
As an Associate Lecturer with expertise in innovation research and practices, you will guide students in research methods, fieldwork and synthesis, academic writing, human and planet-centred design, and responsible innovation. You will support research outputs and live team project outcomes, helping students connect academic scholarship with professional practice.
Your role will include teaching, tutorials, supervision, assessment and feedback, fostering academic rigour, independent thinking and professional development. You may also contribute to workshops, collaborative projects, events and exhibitions.
You will join a progressive course team committed to evolving the curriculum through interdisciplinary approaches to complexity, identities and plural futures, while engaging with social inequity, economic and climate crises, and emerging relationships between human, more-than-human and machine intelligences.
Your profile
You will be an experienced academic or practitioner with expertise in innovation management, research and practice, ideally with experience of teaching, mentorship, supervision and assessment in higher education.
You will have a strong understanding of research methods, critical enquiry and communicating innovation, with the ability to guide students in developing rigorous research and articulating their ideas effectively.
Ideally, you will be fluent in both academic and industry contexts, with experience of interdisciplinary collaboration, applied research, innovation projects or facilitated research and innovation sprints.
You will understand postgraduate academic standards and student experience, communicate inclusively with diverse audiences, and work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary course team.
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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