Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences

City Campus, Newcastle

The Visual and Material Culture Group is located in the Department of Arts. We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Professor / Associate Professor who will play an active role in the vibrant and interdisciplinary research culture of the Faculty. The Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences offers a range of undergraduate modules and courses in Art and Design History exploring Contextual Issues and Theory for practitioners of art and design, as a core part of their curriculum. The team also delivers Postgraduate Taught programmes, including Creative and Cultural Industries Management.

As a senior Academic colleague, you will assist the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor to maintain, enhance and improve the University’s national and international reputation in your academic field. You must demonstrate continuing academic attainment and achievement and provide academic leadership (of your subject and associated colleagues), through active contributions to your discipline and to the life and work of the Faculty and the wider University. This will include contributing to significant change within the discipline, profession and/or community at regional, national and international level.

To be successful in this role you will have externally recognised research outputs of a quality that are internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and demonstrable success in securing research funding. You should also demonstrate academic leadership, experience and strong standing with external bodies and networks in your field.

You should have a PhD in a related discipline to Visual and Material Cultures. Current research areas within the team relate to cultural production from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day across Europe, Japan, Australia and North America, and focus on such subjects as activist aesthetics; architectural history; communities and participation; cultural organisations and institutions; documentary photography; feminist politics in art; history of art and design education; international cultural exchange; Japanese-European fashion exchange; (multi)cultural heritage; northern cultural landscapes; and sound art. You should also have appropriate teaching experience in higher education with an ability to teach historical and theoretical content flexibly across a range of courses. The Team currently teaches students in Fine Art, Fashion, Graphic Design, 3D Product Design, Industrial and Interior Design, and Creative and Cultural Industries Management.

For an informal discussion about the post contact: Dr Solomon Lennox, Head of Department, solomon.lennox@northumbria.ac.uk  

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a Covering Letter and your CV, including a full list of publications where relevant and any documents specifically requested in the Role Description and Person Specification, such as a sample of written work or journal article.

Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers.

Please note this vacancy will close on 23/02/2020