Lecturer in Media Communication

About this role
UWE is seeking highly skilled and experienced lecturer(s) to join the existing team of theorists, practitioners, and industry experts in our Media Communications programme to teach into existing media culture modules and help develop our exciting undergraduate offer.

The Media Communications programme covers theoretical, practical and industry-based teaching into broad areas of media communications, digital media production, public relations, and campaigns. This role requires experience and expertise in one or more of these areas, with a proven track record of high-quality teaching.

Details of the Media Communications programme can be found here: Media Communications - BA(Hons) - UWE Bristol: Courses.

About you
You are a great communicator, able to inspire and support students across their learning journey. Highly organised and able to work to tight deadlines with accuracy and rigour, you will be an integral part of a highly motivated team. With relevant teaching and assessment experience across the subject fields of media theory and practice, public relations, and campaigns, you are able to contribute to the smooth delivery of high-quality teaching and learning. You are able to contribute to the smooth delivery of high-quality teaching and learning during timetabled lectures, seminars, and workshops, as well as pastoral care and guidance to undergraduate students.

You have a deep enthusiasm for pedagogy and student welfare, and willingly contribute to the development of the teaching and learning offer. With a close eye on KPIs and programme goals, you will work with others to develop all areas of the student experience. Ideally, you will have industry experience in public relations and campaigns, and/or some practice-based experience in the creative industries and can bring this experience and research to the existing team.

Where is this role based?
This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus.

Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in Bristol, one of the UK’s most exciting and forward-thinking cities, we are regionally embedded and globally connected, with an established network of employer and academic partners.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian or racially minoritised candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information
If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact email: Clair2.Schwarz@uwe.ac.uk or David.Greenham@uwe.ac.uk

This is a 12 month, fixed-term post until September 2025 and is part-time working on a 0.5 FTE contract.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for at least 50 percent of your time, with the opportunity to work from home when not teaching or attending meetings.

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