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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries (Creative Practice)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
23 May 2021

Job Details

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries (Creative Practice)

Job ID: 021825

Salary: £38,304 to £56,060 per annum, depending on skills and experience, including London Weighting Allowance

Posted: 30-Apr-2021

Closing date: 23-May-2021 

Business unit: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Department: Culture, Media & Creative Industries

Contact details: Prof. Nick Wilson (Head of Department, CMCI) , nick.wilson@kcl.ac.uk 

Strand Campus   Academic and teaching    


Job description
The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries seeks to make an exciting new appointment of Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries to offer leadership in creative practice and arts-based research. The post will make a central contribution to the culture, reach and profile of the department, engaging in public-facing creative practice, inspiring new developments in teaching and research, as well as providing pastoral support across CMCI’s expanding portfolio of both in-person and online courses. This includes the BA Culture, Media & Creative Industries; three postgraduate programmes - Cultural & Creative Industries MA; Arts & Cultural Management MA, and Global Media Industries MA; and the Department’s expanding culture, media and creative industries PhD programme.   

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a closely related discipline, with an excellent knowledge and track record of working in a relevant field of creative practice and/or arts-based research. They will be an inspiring practitioner and researcher, bringing their own particular expertise in research methods and design, and possessing a flair for making creative practice accessible to a diverse audience. As a skilled educator, they will bring experience of both face-to-face and online teaching and assessment in Higher Education, demonstrate a commitment to student learning and welfare, and an aptitude for working within an interdisciplinary framework. In keeping with the department’s strategic priorities of inclusivity, sustainability, care, and reflexivity, applicants will be expected to demonstrate a deep commitment to making critical and positive interventions in society. 
 
The position will build on the Department’s existing research and teaching strengths in creative practice and arts-based research. As well as developing research on (and in) arts-based approaches, and informing dissertations and research projects across the curricula, the successful post-holder will liaise with external practitioners and stakeholders, contributing to new and emerging Faculty/College-wide initiatives in the area. They will be required to teach on a broad mix of modules, indicatively including Managing cultural projects (level 5); Events and festivals (level 6); Arts based research project; Art and globalisation; Contextualising creativity; Global media industries: Final project; Media industry innovations: Collaborative project (level 7). Working closely with other colleagues, they will also play an important role in designing and delivering new online modules for use in virtual short courses and further Programme development within the Department. 
 
We encourage applications from members of groups with protected characteristics that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Equality Act. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, as they are under-represented at this level.
 
In applying for this role please include a covering letter clearly indicating how you meet the essential and desirable criteria below, and an up-to-date CV. Applicants are asked to include, as part of their covering letter, a separate statement describing past experience of, and/or future plans for, promoting diversity and inclusion. 
 
This post will be offered as an indefinite contract.
This is a full-time post.
 

Key responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver outstanding teaching in both face-to-face and online modes for BA and MA optional and compulsory modules, designing and delivering new online modules for virtual courses, where required
  • Provide high quality supervisory guidance and leadership for BA and MA level creative practice and arts-based dissertations, as well as high quality supervision to PhD students
  • Assess coursework and examinations as required
  • Contribute to the welfare of students through the personal tutor system
  • Conduct excellent research including publishing peer reviewed articles in high impact journals and/or books and research monographs, creative practice and art-based outputs, generating grant income, public engagement, and building recognizable research expertise and esteem
  • Fulfill administrative tasks as directed by the Head of Department

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge  and experience

Essential criteria - Lecturer level

  1. PhD awarded in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a relevant interdisciplinary field 
  2. Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of a relevant field of creative practice and associated arts-based research 
  3. Clearly defined research interests and plans compatible with the research strategies of the Department, Faculty and College
  4. Highly effective administrative and organisational skills, underpinned by excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills 
  5. Experience of teaching relevant subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, with evidence of developing and delivering innovative and effective face-to-face and online teaching and ability to engage and inspire students of diverse and international backgrounds 
  6. Experience of grading a variety of assessment types at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and providing helpful and constructive feedback  
  7. Experience of providing academic advice and pastoral support to students, demonstrating commitment to student engagement and learning, supporting student welfare, and enhancing the student experience 
  8. An interdisciplinary mindset and aptitude for working within an interdisciplinary framework, including teaching across disciplines and beyond the immediate field of expertise 
  9. Aptitude for working collaboratively with colleagues providing leadership in designing and delivering online and offline teaching and undertaking administrative duties 
  10. Demonstrable networking skills, facilitating partnerships, bridging professional, civic, arts and academic research communities  

Desirable criteria - Lecturer level

  1. Completion of appropriate training in Higher Education teaching and learning/academic practice 
  2. Completion of appropriate training in equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion 
  3. Research and teaching interests which focus on the Global South 

To be considered for this post at Senior Lecturer level, candidates will, in addition, be required to demonstrate the following:

  • Contribution to, or prominent role in leading, curriculum development initiatives and quality-enhancement activity 
  • Active participation in the audit, review and strategic planning of modules and programmes 
  • Evidence of national recognition as a senior educator, for example through appointments as external examiner for taught programmes, participation in educational collaborations with external colleagues, or involvement in the running of subject associations 
  • Contribution to, or prominent role in leading, the making of strategic decisions in their department or equivalent 
  • Sustained commitment to the mentoring and professional development of staff in their department and/or Faculty 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

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