Lecturer (Teaching) in Media 0.5FTE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

You will play an important role in the detailed preparation for and delivery of the BA Media. You will also contribute an important specialism to the range of expertise required by the programme, particularly on the modules ‘Analysing Media Texts’ and ‘Multimodality and Fan Cultures.’ In addition to teaching at undergraduate level, you will contribute to Masters and PhD programmes in media, and to research, knowledge exchange and consultancy activities in ReMAP, the Knowledge Lab, and Culture Lab at UCL East.

You will also play an important role in the development of the new UCL Media Network, generating collaborative approaches to teaching, research and intellectual endeavour across the three faculties.

You will also contribute to planning and delivery of workshops for schools and communities in East London as part of UCL East’s Widening Participation programme.

You will have a PhD, completed or close to completion (or comparable research experience), in digital media arts, media and cultural studies, screen studies, or other relevant fields in social sciences, media arts or digital media and evidence of potential for successful funded research or professional consultancy work.

Experience in the (interactive) media industries is desirable.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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