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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£38,826 - £45,649 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
24 Jul 2022

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Job description

The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) seeks to hire a Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries Education (Academic Education Pathway). This is a fixed-term 1FTE contract for a period of 12 months (September 2022 – August 2023). The post will primarily contribute to seminar teaching across our BA Culture, Media & Creative Industries degree. As an Academic Education Pathway (AEP) Lecturer, we are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated educator who can make a distinctive contribution, bridging theory and practice, and inspiring and informing students from a wide range of disciplinary and international backgrounds. Indicatively, the post-holder will be required to teach on the following year one (L4) and year two (L5) BA modules: Media 1.0 – Histories, Theories and Analysis (L4), Media 2.0 – Audiences, Industries and Convergence (L4), Cultural Institutions and Industries: Practice & Management (L4), Issues in the Creative Industries (L5), Managing Cultural Projects (L5), and Television and Platform Studies (L5). Across the year, this will indicatively involve preparing and delivering 10 x 1hr seminars per week during term time and marking students’ work. The post may additionally require some dissertation (BA and/or MA) supervision and assessment.         

 

The successful candidate will either hold a PhD in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a closely related discipline or be very near to completion i.e. submitted but awaiting viva/defence. They will be able to demonstrate an excellent knowledge and understanding of a field of expertise relating to the requirements of the position. This post does not require independent research and the delivery of research outputs.

 

The post-holder will be a highly effective educator, with experience of teaching and assessment in Higher Education (preferably in the UK), a commitment to student learning and welfare, and an aptitude for working within an interdisciplinary framework. We encourage applications from members of groups with protected characteristics that have been marginalised 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 brief statement describing past experience of, and/or future plans for, promoting diversity and inclusion.

 

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 12 months (September 2022-August 2023).

This is a full-time 1 FTE post (35 hours per week).

 

Key responsibilities

  • Deliver outstanding seminar teaching for BA modules in the department  
  • Assess coursework as required
  • Fulfil other teaching tasks (e.g. high quality supervisory guidance for BA and/or MA level dissertations) where needed
  • Contribute to the welfare of students through the personal tutor system 
  • 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 or very near to completion in Culture, Media & Creative Industries or a relevant interdisciplinary field 

2.       Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of culture, media and creative industries, with capacity to teach seminars across a range of subject areas (as indicatively presented in the job description) 

3.       Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentational skills 

4.       Experience of teaching relevant subjects, ideally at undergraduate level or above 

5.       Experience of grading a variety of assessment types and providing helpful and constructive feedback  

6.       Evidence of innovative and effective teaching and ability to engage and inspire students of diverse and international backgrounds 

7.       Commitment to student learning and welfare, including providing academic advice, assessment feedback, and pastoral support (e.g. as personal tutor) 

 

Desirable criteria

1.       Appropriate training in Higher Education teaching and learning/academic practice 

2.       Appropriate training in equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion 

3.       Teaching interests which focus on the Global South 

 

The interviews will take place on the 1st or 2nd August.

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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