Lecturer in Fashion Styling, Production and Digital Practice

The opportunity

The Lecturer in Fashion Styling, Production and Digital Practice is responsible for teaching, curriculum development, and on-going scholarship on the Fashion Styling and Production course. This course is part of the Fashion Media programme within the School of Media and Communication at the London College of Fashion. 

The post-holder will work collaboratively within a course team, deploying specialist expertise in styling and production, with a particular and leading emphasis on the digital dimensions of the discipline. 

Within your area of expertise, you should demonstrate a strong understanding and tangible experience of how digital platforms, emerging technologies, apps, and online social networks are reshaping the opportunities available to the next generation of fashion stylists and producers within fashion media. 

You will be immersed in contemporary fashion, arts, and image-making platforms, and fluent in the language of digital innovation, experimentation, and future-facing outcomes in fashion styling and production. A confident team collaborator, with excellent communication skills, you will also bring an authentic interest in creative arts and education. 

We ask you to inspire and excite our students, bringing to life both the technical and theoretical aspects of your field, grounded in solid industry experience, and driving pedagogy that is responsive to the fast-moving digital landscape. 

Through research-led enquiry and engagement with emerging digital production processes, you will inspire the future generation of creative storytellers with energy, vision, and commitment. Your practice should consider values of ethics, diversity, and sustainability as part of your fashion thinking, to support digitally informed, creative solutions for future-facing narratives.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Danny Treacy d.treacy@fashion.arts.ac.uk   

About you

As a professional industry practitioner, you will hold a relevant degree and be able to demonstrate significant creative success and specialist knowledge in fashion styling and creative production, with a particular strength in digital platforms, tools, and emerging technologies. You will be confident working across multi-faceted disciplines, bringing expertise in how digital and physical practices intersect within fashion media. 

You will be forward-thinking and visionary, with a sharp awareness of the changing demands of the industry and a contemporary approach to image-making that reflects the fast-evolving digital landscape of fashion styling and production. 

Your portfolio will show evidence of questioning the status quo and exploring digitally driven, innovative approaches, marking you out as a significant contributor to advancing your area of expertise and inspiring the next generation of digital fashion storytellers.  

A relevant postgraduate qualification will be an advantage, while industry experience is essential. Experience in higher education is required. 

To equip generation after generation for success, we rely on an outstanding academic team who are as imaginative, forward thinking and visionary, as they are informed: people with hands on experience of their industry and a keen eye on the future. 

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 be members of the Race Equality Charter (REC) and Business Disability Forum, are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed and Living Wage employer and maintain our status as a Stonewall Diversity Champion.