Lecturer in Cultural Industries (LTS Track)
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Job Details
Posted 25 April 2025 | Salary Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum, pro rata | End date 11 May 2025 | Location: Glasgow | Job Type: Research and Teaching | Reference: 172872 | Expiry: 11 May 2025
Job Description
The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Cultural Industries (Learning, Teaching and Scholarship Track) within the School of Culture & Creative Arts.
This role is available on a Part Time Basis – 0.6 FTE (21 Hours Per Week) for a period of up to one year from 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2026.
Job Purpose
To contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in the School of Culture & Creative Arts.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Deliver a range of teaching, supervision and assessment activities across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the Subject/School.
* Carry out course administration within required timescales ensuring effective communication of information, in particular assessment requirements and criteria and timely and constructive feedback on assessment.
* Contribute to the ongoing development and design of the curriculum in a manner that supports a research-led and scholarly approach to student learning and assessment in the discipline and/or profession.
* Make effective use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, course organisation, feedback and assessment. This may involve blended and/or online provision.
* Ensure an inclusive and evidence-based approach to facilitating learning in a range of face-to-face and potentially online delivery formats such as tutorials, lectures, problem-based learning, that promotes student participation and learning outcome attainment.
* Engage in scholarship by undertaking methodologically rigorous, educationally relevant enquiries into student learning and disseminate evidence to enhance your own, and potentially others’, teaching practices. Attend and participate in appropriate seminars and conferences to support research-led teaching, scholarship and/or professional practice in your disciplinary area.
* Develop effective working relationships with students and, in partnership with relevant student services teams, respond appropriately to the diverse range of learning approaches and learner needs.
* Develop relationships with external stakeholders in support of knowledge exchange, public understanding and appropriate forms of outreach such as widening access.
* Participate in local, and potentially overseas, activities associated with student recruitment (e.g., open days), orientation and induction and other School and University initiatives such as support for student transitions, employability and student mobility as appropriate.
* Engage in continuing professional development activities as appropriate.
* Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Head of School.
* To contribute to the enhancement of the University’s international profile in line with the University’s Strategic Plan.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential:
* Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 12 (PhD) or equivalent in a related discipline and/or teaching experience.
* Sufficient breadth and/or depth of knowledge in the specialist subject/discipline and of teaching methods and techniques.
* Thorough knowledge and ability to apply policy, practice and procedures including broader University/sector/external awareness.
* Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in the field with an ability to engage students and provide pastoral care.
Skills:
* Ability to communicate material of a specialist or highly technical nature effectively both orally and in writing.
Desirable:
* Support teaching across a wide range of topics (e.g., media industries, social media, digital communications, consumption studies).
* Ability to communicate a range of material to a diverse student cohort.
Experience:
* Experience of planning and progressing work activities within professional guidelines or organisational policy, applying initiative and independent judgement.
* Demonstrated commitment to open research practices.
* Supporting the career development of colleagues and collegiality.
Terms and Conditions
Salary: Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum pro rata. This post is part-time (21 hours per week) and fixed-term for up to 1 year from 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2026.
Informal enquiries: Professor Mark Banks: Mark.Banks@glasgow.ac.uk
For more information: School of Culture & Creative Arts
Benefits include generous leave, pension, flexible working, health and wellbeing support, and more. Applications from diverse communities are encouraged.
Closing Date: 11th May 2025 at 23:45
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