Application closing date: 13/04/2020
Salary: £52,560 to £60,905 per annum.
Job category/type: Academic

Job description

The Senior Lecturer Future Cities post is an exciting opportunity to establish the Future Cities area within the rich disciplinary context of School of Natural and Built Environment; a forum for wide ranging, leading edge design research in urban futures. This will develop, critique and communicate ideas of place, environment and sustainability to define the limits of contemporary and future city.

The city has a 6000 year history and by 2050 68% of the world's population will be urban. Challenges facing the future city demand enquiry, analysis and new insights developed through innovative inter-disciplinary and multi-partner design research, tested through impactful applied projects. Future Cities engages scholarship and practice from diverse backgrounds to consider aesthetics, spatial organisation and operation, sustainability, infrastructures, governance, the value of place and how we live, as the context for new conceptions of the urban. This will explore, define and design the nature of the 21st century city, acknowledging the necessity to reimagine the idea of the city within a digitally infused and spatially attenuated age with significant environmental challenges.

The successful appointee will help establish the Future Cities area and lead research and teaching on an MSc Future Cities Future Landscape as a dynamic, research driven testbed, connecting with wide ranging interests and areas of work within the School, University, city, region and beyond. At its core the area will identify, research, develop and communicate testable design-based responses to key societal challenges. Future Cities will develop and connect practice and theory through ground breaking projects, applied work, research and pilot studies.

Working with the Professor of Future Cities, the successful candidate will be doctorally qualified, professionally trained in an aligned design-based discipline such as architecture or landscape architecture with an urban specialism. You will have high level research and teaching experience and the ability to engage with internal and external collaborative partners, both nationally and internationally. The ability to develop social media presence, external events, evidence of working with professional bodies and connecting with a wide engaged network is desirable.

The successful candidate must have:

• Hold a PhD in an area closely related to architectural design practice and sustainability
• M.Arch (Distinction) in an accredited ARB/RIBA Part II (or equivalent) programme; 
• BSc (1st class or 2.1) in Architecture in an accredited ARB/RIBA Part 1 (or equivalent) programme).
• MA/MSc in Urbanism, Urban Design or a similar specialist area connecting design practice and urban space.  
• Working towards or completed PGCHET(or equivalent)
• Extensive educational experience within a leading School of Architecture in areas including architectural design research, innovative data analysis, mapping and design, design policy, urbanism, infrastructure, connectivity and sustainability
• Demonstrate high academic standing and esteem in research and/or teaching within subject specialism through externally funded projects and national/international collaboration. 
• Evidence of sustained high-quality teaching, research and leadership in large complex professionally regulated architectural design programmes, and other related areas and their attendant coordination.
• Experience of leading and contribution to broader management and administrative processes in professionally regulated courses; organise outreach activities and recruitment. 
• Experience of developing and delivering research engaged teaching at both PGT and UG levels.

About the School of the Natural and Built Environment:

The School's vision is to be world-leading in research and teaching, addressing global challenges and the needs of society through knowledge creation and dissemination. We have declared a Climate Emergency and aim to provide creative answers, through both our students and our research, to these globally challenging questions. We are proud of the strong links we continue to develop with industry leaders, both nationally and internationally.

We are a leader in gender equality and diversity, and are one of the UK's most successful universities in the Athena SWAN initiative which promotes gender equality and career progression. We are ranked 1st in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, (Innovate UK) 9th in the UK for University facilities (Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018) and 14th in the UK for research quality (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019).

Based in Belfast, a modern capital city, our beautiful campus is surrounded by abundant acres of parkland and is renowned as one of the safest and affordable cities in the UK. The choice of local Schools from pre-nursery upwards are some of the best available, and lovers of the outdoors can enjoy any number of activities from rowing and kayaking to top class golf among many others. We are immensely proud of what our city and our University will offer you.

Our five core values (Integrity, Connected, Ambition, Respect, Excellence) have been developed by staff and students. They express our shared understanding of what we believe, how we aim to behave and what we aspire to be as an international organisation.

Informal enquires may be directed to Professor Michael McGarry, email: m.mcgarry@qub.ac.uk or telephone: 028 9097 4573.

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