Lecturer (Teaching) in Intercultural Communication

About us

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; Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

About the role

The Department is looking to appoint two Lecturer (Teaching) in Intercultural Communication and Dissertation Supervisors at 0.15 FTE. The postholder will be supervising 10 MA dissertations in Intercultural Communications and related areas. This will include marking and providing feedback to students. In addition, the successful candidate will be supporting the running of the Dissertation module throughout the academic year and attending induction and standardisation meetings in the department.

The successful candidate must have a PhD in Intercultural Communication or closely relevant subject areas. The postholder will have experience of supervising students at MA programmes. You will have good understanding of the learning needs of a diverse body of students, particularly those who are multilingual users of English and/ or international students and/ or from widening participation backgrounds. In addition, you will have evidence of a good understanding of common approaches to research and research methodology, and have knowledge of the assessment criteria that are typically used at MA level in UK Higher Education

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.

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 Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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