Lecturer and Year Leader of BA User Experience Design

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK
Salary: £42,477 to £50,961 per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Part time
Hours: Part time

Job description

The opportunity

The Lecturer & Year Leader of BA (Hons) User Experience Design is responsible for teaching, year leadership, assessment, curriculum development, and on-going scholarship on the course, which is part of Interaction Design & Visual Communication programme in the Design School at London College of Communication. BA (Hons) User Experience Design is a practice-based, enquiry-led course that builds on the aesthetic traditions of design practice through design thinking, research, and a systems-oriented approach to encourage curiosity, experimentation, and creative innovation of human-centred experiences that shape positive futures and produce cultural value.

The role requires current knowledge in research, practice, and other developments in human-centred design and user experience design and to ensure that these developments are reflected in the curriculum.

About you

The post-holder will be knowledgeable in contemporary user experience design spanning digital, physical, and hybrid applications and have the relevant academic and/or professional practice to be able to contribute to pedagogy and the curriculum in innovative and critical directions, including contextualising and theorising human-centred design practices. You will have demonstrated experience in leading a year group of undergraduate students’ pastoral support, progress and attendance, maintaining records and liaising with colleagues as appropriate.

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 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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