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Lecturer in Theory and Performance

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£38,826 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
23 May 2022

Job Details

Job description

The Department of English wishes to employ a Lecturer in Theory and Performance (Education & Research Pathway) for a fixed-term period of 12 months. The appointment will provide cover for a member of staff on externally funded research leave and will run from 1 September 2022. The successful candidate will have a strong teaching and research record, complementing the department’s current strengths in the field. They will be able to teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. These are likely to include such topics as the first-year undergraduate module   Introducing Literary Theories, the second-year module   Experimental Theatre: Poems, Playtexts, Manifestos, the third-year module   Science, Nature and Performance and the postgraduate module Theatre and Performance: Research Methods. Like other members of department, they may also be asked to help mark modules that fall within their competence but which they have not taught directly. They will contribute to the pastoral care of students as a personal tutor and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. They will be encouraged to play a part in the intellectual life of the department.

  • They will be responsible to the Head of Department.

Our ambition is to work together to create a more inclusive environment at King’s and in the English Department. We encourage applications from members of groups with protected characteristics that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Equality Act.

 

About the Faculty: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums

 

About the Department of English: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/english

 

This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months.

 

 

Key responsibilities

  • Participate in the planning, organisation and delivery of teaching activities within the department in accordance with established departmental practice.  
  • Serve as convenor for taught modules, as required. 
  • Act as personal tutor to students as agreed with the Head of Department and assist, where appropriate, in recognising and addressing learning difficulties. 
  • Participate fully in assessment and examination processes as required using a variety of methods and techniques and provide effective, timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning. 
  • Engage in professional development as appropriate. 
  • Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. 
  • Undertake any other reasonable duties that may be requested 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 in English Literature or related field.

2.      Experience of teaching theatre, performance and critical theory at BA and MA level.

3.      High quality teaching skills: ability to communicate difficult concepts and material to students of all levels; ability to inspire students; ability to enable students to develop their individual intellectual and personal potential.

4.      Excellent presentational skills: ability to present information and concepts in written and oral form at a variety of levels.

5.      Excellent administrative skills: ability to support the organisational aspects of teaching, learning and research.

6.      Experience of teaching undergraduate students.

7.      Experience of teaching postgraduate students.

8.      Knowledge of modern theory, theatre and performance, their contexts and critical traditions.

9.      Engagement in professional organisations (conference papers, workshops, memberships).

10.  Record of innovation and adaptability in teaching and curriculum design.

11.  Collegiate, demonstrable ability to work with others and to support them where necessary.

12.  Readiness to contribute to the pastoral care of students.

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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