Unit Leader, MA Photography and Digital Practice (Online)

The opportunity

We are looking for an experienced academic to develop teaching and learning materials for a unit of a new fully online MA in Photography and Digital Practices.

The post is for 2 days per week over 8.5 months, beginning at the start of August 2026.

You will work in collaboration with the Course Leader to bring your knowledge and practice in photography to this new, fully online, creative and future facing course for a new global audience of learners.

You’ll work with Learning Designers and the specialist UAL Online production team to create flexible, inclusive and inspiring learning. Your teaching will nurture experimentation, engagement with digital tools and methods and support students to develop individual contemporary digital practices.

About you

You will have specialist teaching experience in image-based creative practice, with a demonstrable background in teaching photography and, ideally, other forms of digital image-making. You will also bring extensive conceptual and practical experience of socially engaged, collaborative, and networked practices, alongside an in-depth understanding of how photography operates across digital platforms and communities online. This should include the ability to critically engage with questions of identity, representation, ethics, platform circulation, and community building, and to support students in developing co-created and critically informed approaches to photography and digital practice. Please see the unit information in the Job Description for further information about the specialist knowledge relevant to this unit.

You’ll have strong teamworking and collaborative skills and be willing to use Miro and shared documents. You’ll be ready to work with project managers, learning designers and others in a mixed discipline team working to tight deadlines. You will bring diverse perspectives and industry voices into the new course curriculum and will draw on your teaching experience to support a globally dispersed cohort of fully online learners to develop their individual digital and photographic practices.

You don’t need extensive experience of online teaching and learning, but you do need to be open to the advantages of flexible fully online delivery to widen access to Higher Education.

 
If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser - lcc.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

▪ 39 days of annual leave and 2 days off to volunteer plus bank holidays
▪ Flexible and Dynamic working options available from the first day
▪ Discounted Medical Insurance including Digital GP service, therapies, in-patient and day-case treatment
▪ Free counselling and advice via our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
▪ Sector-leading Equal Parental Leave policy (6 months full pay for both parents) 
▪ Teachers Pension scheme
▪ In-house training and development including apprenticeships and free places on creative courses
▪ Interest free loans on travel and tech, discounts on gym memberships, nursery fees, eye care and much more
▪ Various opportunities to attend student shows and exhibitions

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That's why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.