Lecturer in Fashion Design

UE08 £44,414 - £52,841 Per Annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Edinburgh College of Art / School of Design

Open-ended (Permanent)

Full time (35 hours per week)

Edinburgh College of Art is seeking an enthusiastic and pro-active individual for the post of Lecturer in Fashion in the School of Design.

The Opportunity:

The post has a focus on, and responsibility for, a proportion of the teaching of our Undergraduate students, and possibly future Post Graduate students. The work will involve preparing, scheduling and delivering courses in studio and on-line, including lectures, workshops, seminars, tutorials, supporting course administration, and the setting and assessing of assignments.

You will contribute to leadership, management, citizenship and administrative duties across teaching and research activities, commensurate with the role.

The post includes scope to undertake a future 3-5 year role as Programme Director for Fashion Design, in line with the University’s approach to rotational leadership opportunities. Therefore, the post holder will be required to demonstrate dynamic leadership skills, including ambition to uphold and developing the teaching quality and overall academic vision for the Programme.

The Programme places a strong focus on encouraging socially responsible and ‘emotionally considerate’ design practices that address equalities, inclusion, ability, and well-being in the context of Fashion Design. You will demonstrate an understanding of this important subject in relation to ongoing needs in Fashion Design, including leading in decolonizing curriculum content, course delivery and teaching methods.

You will also be expected to support the School's ongoing vision to embed sustainable and environmentally consider design practices and solutions at the core of future Programme and Curriculum development, teaching and student outputs.

You will be expected to supervise PHD candidates and contribute where appropriate to broader cross-disciplinary teaching (at both postgraduate and undergraduate level) and future curriculum development.

Building on a pre-existing track record of research of a high international standard, you will be expected to produce high quality research and knowledge exchange activities of national and international standing and impact in the field of fashion design.

We welcome applications from academics from all backgrounds and abilities, contributing to an inclusive community.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You will have experience of teaching, leadership and educational administration in higher/further education.
• You will evidence of a clear track record of research outputs.
• You will be expected to have extensive knowledge and expertise of methods and processes relating to fashion design teaching.
• You will have an acute understanding of contemporary international fashion design, and diverse markets.
• You should have experience of arranging and leading on industry collaboration and network building in fashion education.
• You must be experienced in supporting equalities, diversity and inclusion within a teaching and learning context.
• You will ideally hold knowledge and experience of decoloniality in the context of fashion design teaching.

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Closing date: 27th June, 11:59PM

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.