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Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries (Games and Global Media Industries)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£38,304-£45,026 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
29 Sep 2021

Job Details

Job description

The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries seeks to hire a Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries, specialising in games and global media industries. This exciting post will contribute to the excellent research profile of the department while also engaging in teaching, leadership and pastoral support across our expanding portfolio of both in-person and online courses. This includes the BA Culture, Media & Creative Industries and three postgraduate programmes: Cultural & Creative Industries MA; Arts & Cultural Management MA, and Global Media Industries MA. The role offers the opportunity to build on both established and emerging research and teaching strengths in the Department. The post-holder will offer expertise in examining the global interconnectedness of the media industries and issues of media production, distribution and consumption, with particular emphasis on digital games and gaming cultures, game production cultures, and areas of growth within gaming, such as eSports, live streaming and AR/VR gaming. Additionally, and in keeping with the department’s strategic priorities of inclusivity, sustainability, care, and reflexivity, applicants’ research and teaching should demonstrate a commitment to making critical and positive interventions in society through its engagement with games and global media industries.

 

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a closely related discipline, with an excellent knowledge and understanding of a relevant field of expertise. They will be a highly effective educator, with experience of both face-to-face and online teaching and assessment in Higher Education, a commitment to student learning and welfare, and an aptitude for working within an interdisciplinary framework. Indicatively, the post-holder will be able to teach on modules such as Media 1.0; Media 2.0; Media production cultures (level 4); Digital Games & Gaming Cultures; TV and Platform Studies (level 5); Games industries & cultures; Immersive media; Media industry innovations; and across team taught compulsory MA modules (level 7). We would like the post holder to further develop the department’s portfolio of BA option modules in line with the Programme’s development and in relation to games and global media industries. They will also play a prominent 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 on an indefinite contract  contract

This is a full-time  post - 100% full time equivalent

 

The post holder will need to be available to start in January 2022 with teaching commencing 17th January.

 

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 for BA and MA level 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, generating grant income, public engagement, and building recognizable research expertise and esteem
  • Fulfil 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  

1.       PhD awarded in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a relevant interdisciplinary field 

2.       Excellent knowledge and understanding of a relevant field of expertise relating to games and global media industries 

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, policy and academic communities of practice relating to games and global media industries 

 

Desirable criteria

11.   Completion of appropriate training in Higher Education teaching and learning/academic practice 

12.   Completion of appropriate training in equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion 

13.   Research and teaching interests which focus on the Global South 

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.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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