Course Leader BA Film and Screen Studies

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK
Salary: £51,996 to £62,433 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

The Screen School at London College of Communication is looking to recruit a Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies course http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/about-lcc/screen-school/

Our BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies combines a rigorous academic framework with creative practice designed to develop innovators in film programming, curation, and distribution. The course has a commitment to social justice with an ethical compass to foster meaningful dialogue and inclusive engagement through film. There is a curatorial emphasis with a student-led Screen festival integrated into the final major project of the course.

The successful candidate will lead and manage the delivery, development, assessment, quality, and recruitment, and participate in the delivery of teaching. The appointed candidate will work primarily under the direction of the Programme Director of Film and Television and alongside Course Leaders as well as contributing to School, College and University initiatives including research.

About you

We are looking for an academic with knowledge and experience to lead and deliver our film and screen studies course. Preferably educated to PhD level, you will have research and experience of teaching the history, theory and criticism of film and screen studies at undergraduate level. It is desirable you have experience supervising final-year research dissertations and have experience in curating screen practices.

You will demonstrate an ability to teach and motivate a diverse student population to think creatively and critically and guide them to further research or professional careers. You will promote relationships with professional organizations to provide students with access for networking, collaborative opportunities for research and employability liaisons.

The successful candidate should possess good interpersonal skills and the ability to lead, manage and work alongside full and part time staff. Candidates should demonstrate subject knowledge as well as skills relevant to subject development within an academic, research and professional context.

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

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: 2 December 2024, 5:00 pm