Associate Lecturer – UAL Creative Computing Institute

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The opportunity

UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI) are looking for Associate Lecturers to join them.

The Associate Lecturer post involves responsibility for delivering academic and pastoral teaching including providing formative feedback to students, enhancing their creative coding and critical knowledge and building a studio culture that enables collaborative studies and a place to evolve individual and group learning. As the course evolves, we require additional specialist expertise provided by practitioners that can inspire and motivate students to realise their ambitions to create our futures.

The MSc Creative Computing is an exciting mix of computing and creative practice set in the context of a world-renowned creative university. Students learn to code, build apps, craft digital experiences, explore machine intelligence and more. Students acquire a contemporary set of applied computing skills covering the dominant coding languages and workflows that support innovation in the digital technology sector and creative practice. Building on these skills, and through creative practice, our students also develop an ability to innovate.

About you

Your profile should include –

• some experience of teaching within a higher education environment, and strong skills in effective planning, implementation and delivery.  
• have initiative, agility and enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• be keen to learn pedagogies approaches adopting flipped classes when required and blended learning (some prerecord, some live) and work with the students as a team.
• have an established practice and a professional profile in creative computing.
• be actively engaged with current discipline debates on social impact and ethical approaches for creative computing.
• bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of computational practice.
• have specialist knowledge in coding (Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Processing, API, machine learning), Physical Computing and/or animation, data visualisation and analysis.
• be able to deliver content in these areas to a cohort of students who have just started learning coding or are staring coding for the first time.
• hold experience with Unreal or Unity.
• hold experience with Creative Coding Frameworks such as but not limited to P5js, Touch Designer, Open Frameworks or React. 

Should you have any queries about this opportunity please email ccistaffingadmin@arts.ac.uk 

We are UAL

For the fifth year running, University of the Arts London is the world’s second University for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings® 2023. Our diverse and talented community comprises over 5,000 academic, professional, and technical staff. Together we are committed to social purpose. This includes creating a better a more sustainable world and championing race equality. 

We offer highly creative working environments that inspire staff across all areas to fulfil their potential and continuous training to further develop their skills and expertise. We also offer hybrid and flexible working practices, and excellent staff benefits to improve your work life balance. 

The UAL Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London supports interdisciplinary teaching, research and knowledge exchange at the intersection of creativity and computational technologies. The Institute aims to work across domains such as machine learning and artificial intelligence and explores how the contemporary world is being defined through human computer interaction and social platforms.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive salary and pension plus a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.