Art & Media Technology

Location:  Winchester School of Art
Salary:   £32,348 to £39,745
Full Time Fixed Term
Closing Date:  Thursday 25 August 2022
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  1927922FH

Fixed term for 2 years – full time

Department of Art & Media Technology 

Join our innovative Department of Art & Media Technology and be part of a new configuration of arts-related disciplines, encompassing Fine Art, Games, Global Media, and Curatorship, with a new, integrated, and outward-looking approach to the investigative and the speculative.

About the role 

This is a fixed term Teaching Fellow post to directly support the MA Global Media Management programme after a very successful recruitment of incoming students for 2022/23 and you will contribute to the postgraduate teaching within Global Media Management.

You will teach as part of a team with shared responsibilities for all Global Media Management students and lead on the application and theory of media practices in a global setting, and their integration into the more traditional approaches for which Winchester School of Art has such a strong and long-held reputation.  Your teaching will be both seminar, practice-led and lecture-based and must encompass relevant critical theory.

About you 

You will demonstrate a commitment to education and an ability to bring your own current, significant, and ongoing work to bear on the enhancement of our students.

Strong applicants will demonstrate:

• MA or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in Media Practices.
• Track record of high student satisfaction and attainment.
• Evidence of excellent education delivery at postgraduate level.

What we can offer you 

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. Our core benefits include pension scheme membership; a generous annual leave allowance (supplemented by University closure days and public holidays) and excellent family leave arrangements (including maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave) see https://www.southampton.ac.uk/hr/services/benefits-explained/index.page. 

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. We welcome candidates form any and all backgrounds, who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment.  We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, from the Global South, from people who identify as LGBTQ+, from people with disabilities, and from first generation higher education attendees.  

Committed to supporting our teaching and research community we are open to flexible working.  With an understanding that there is a need to be on campus for teaching duties we are open to a hybrid approach.  We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly including part-time and those who have taken a career break. Proud to be a founding signatory of the Athena Swan gender equality charter we hold an institutional Silver award. 

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Application procedure  

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date sated above. If you need any assistance, please call Jane Sturgeon (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 2750 or email recruitment@soton.ac.uk. Please quote reference 1927922FH on all correspondence.