Lecturer in Fashion Enterprise

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – LCF East Bank Stratford/Home
Salary: £43,512 to £51,996 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

We are looking for a talented academic to assume responsibility for teaching, curriculum development, unit management and on-going scholarship on the Product and Innovation programme at London College of Fashion (LCF).

Based in the Fashion Business School, you’ll apply your teaching and learning skills to the area of fashion enterprise and entrepreneurship, helping to provide a high-quality education that will prepare students for a diverse and rapidly changing fashion industry. This will involve managing the planning and delivery of enterprise sessions, units and year groups, stimulating thought and best practice that challenges the canon of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

You’ll help expand the delivery of enterprise across LCF, whilst maintaining a flexible approach to meet the diverse needs of our students. You’ll be responsible for a year group of undergraduate students’ pastoral support, progress and attendance, maintaining records and liaising with colleagues as appropriate.

Working closely with the course team, you’ll also deploy specialist expertise to develop pedagogy and the curriculum in innovative and critical directions, expanding the capacity of the course design to enhance teaching and learning.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the recruiting manager Nicole Dunlop at n.dunlop@fashion.arts.ac.uk

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk

About you

We’re looking for a lecturer with a strong academic background, including an undergraduate degree in Fashion Business/Management or an associated subject.

With a flexible teaching style and a friendly demeanour, you will possess previous HE teaching experience and can demonstrate a passionate, inquiring and innovative approach to your teaching.

You will also need evidence of research, knowledge exchange and/or professional practice that contributes to the advancement of enterprise and is relevant to the goals of the Programme, College and University.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Closing date: 4 November 2024, 5:00 pm