Lecturer in MA Industrial Design

The opportunity

The Lecturer in MA Industrial Design is responsible for teaching and on-going scholarship in MA Industrial Design. This course is part of the Product Ceramic and Industrial Design Programme at Central Saint Martins. The post-holder will work collaboratively within a course team, deploying specialist expertise to develop the subject in innovative and critical directions through teaching, collaboration, and scholarly design practice. 

About you

Before completing an application form, candidates should please download the candidate information pack and the job description/person specification for the role and read the full list of requirements and selection criteria before applying as this will be the criteria on which your application will be assessed).

Requirements of the role:

• Postgraduate degree in design studies or associated subject
• Experience of teaching & assessment in a higher education environment (permanent, fractional, or hourly paid contract)
• Applies an inquiring, innovative and reflexive approach to teaching
• Considers equality, diversity, and inclusivity in all aspects of teaching and assessment
• Shows commitment to understanding the range of students’ experiences within a course
• Collaborates and works effectively within team and across different professional groups
• Works effectively and respectfully with a wide range of people
• Fosters inclusive and constructive teamwork and problem-solving
• Evidence of research, knowledge exchange and/ or professional practice that contributes to the advancement of Industrial Design and its associated practices and is relevant to the goals of the Programme, College and University
• Evidence of using contacts within subject peer group to develop partnerships or collaboration
• Familiar with debates and research relating to decolonising the curriculum and awarding gaps within the HE Sector
• Professional experience of leading projects with partners and diverse participants
• Plans, prioritises, and manages resources effectively to achieve objectives
• Teaching qualification (PG Cert or equivalent) (Desirable)
• Member of the Higher Education Academy (Desirable)

UAL is committed to addressing the under-representation of staff from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, using our student profile as a reference point.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive salary and pension plus a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity, and diversity. If you have any queries about this role please email the CSM Resourcing Team on: 0207 514 8793 or jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.

What we offer

We are UAL

Now is a crucial time for Central Saint Martins and the University of the Arts London. The pandemic and anti-racism movement in their own and intersecting ways set a new landscape for higher education in the creative arts, in which ways of teaching and operating will be reconsidered, and where the values of social justice and anti-racism must underpin everything we do. These conditions set both urgent challenges but also the potential to reflect on what we do. Central Saint Martins aims to engage with and lead the global debate about the arts, performance and design, and their role in societal transformation. We also aim to empower our graduates to be the leading practitioners in their field, as well as responsible citizens of the world. We hope you will consider joining our creative community. 

MA Industrial Design (MAID) is internationally recognised as a leader in postgraduate industrial design education. Through innovative pedagogy, research and external collaboration, the course develops methodological and critical processes in design practice with a mission to expand the disciplinary purview of industrial design. While MAID honours the traditional legacy of the subject, the course operates as space to continually reframe what industrial design is and means as a future-orientated practice. Staff and students employ critical and socially responsive methods to explore the application of industrial design in both market-led and societal contexts. Through plural and collaborative models of practice in contexts of object-orientated design, enterprise, speculation and social design, the course challenges the impacts of our practice, scopes emerging opportunities and develops new roles that extend the agency of the industrial designer in addressing the complex problems we face today.

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