Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architectural Design
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 25 Feb 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Architecture, Arts & Humanities
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Principal / Senior Lecturers / Associate Professors, Lecturers / Assistant Professors
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Job no: 0049810
Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super
Salary: Level B $ 102,967 – $122,268 per annum or Level C $126,128 – $145,431 per annum. Level of appointment is subject to qualifications and experience.
The University of Melbourne is one of the leading universities in the world with a deep commitment to contributing to society in ways that enrich and transform lives. The University is seeking Chairs in Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture and Construction to join the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and its Graduate School, the Melbourne School of Design.
The Faculty is amongst the top twenty in the world in the built environment and home to a vibrant community of staff and students working across the fields of Architecture, Construction, Landscape Architecture, Property, Urban and Cultural Heritage, Urban Design and Urban Planning. It has an alumni community of 13,000 graduates from more than 60 countries and is now located in its captivating building designed by John Wardle and Nader Tehrani.
The Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne is seeking to make an appointment in the field of landscape architectural design. This appointment may be made at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer).
The successful candidate will demonstrate both a proven capability and continued promise to make significant contributions to teaching, research and engagement in landscape architectural design. They should be committed to innovative and interdisciplinary thinking about contemporary landscape architectural design with a record of recognised creative, scholarly and professional work. We seek candidates who will expand the design culture within MSD and who will engage in constructive dialogue with colleagues across the campus, and with industry and the profession.
The incumbent will work with Faculty colleagues to refine and deliver academic programs, enhancing the quality and interdisciplinary design culture of the Faculty. They will teach at both graduate and undergraduate levels, including into the Bachelor of Design and will participate in the supervision of research for higher degree students.
With this hire, the faculty is seeking to expand its capacities in contemporary landscape architectural design including innovative design practice and construction, we encourage applicants who also bring complementary disciplinary interests in the following areas:
- Digital design technologies, including digital fabrication prototyping, fabrication and environmental simulation;
- Environmental analysis and modelling, data acquisition and processing;
- Materiality and construction experience; and
- Performative design.
Please note the application close date has changed.
Applications close: 25 Feb 2020 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
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The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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