The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the vibrant and highly respected Department of Illustration Animation — a creative home to BA Illustration Animation, BA Interaction Design, MA Illustration, MA Animation, and a thriving postgraduate research community. You’ll be part of a dynamic and ambitious team of students and staff, contributing to a culture of learning, teaching, and critical making at the forefront of the discipline.
We are looking for a lecturer to teach across our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with a focus on graphic narrative, sequential image-making, and time-based storytelling. The successful candidate will be expected to coordinate, organise, and manage projects, delivering teaching through workshops, tutorials, seminars, reviews, and assessments.
We seek candidates with a creative research-led practice in visual storytelling — spanning areas such as comics, graphic novels, visual essays, performative image-making, or experimental narrative work. This role is ideal for an illustrator or image-based practitioner whose work interrogates how stories unfold through images, both on and off the page, and across a range of platforms. We welcome applicants who bring a reflective, critical, and inclusive approach to both their creative practice and pedagogy.
The successful candidate will also take on pastoral responsibilities, supporting students from a range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds. A commitment to equitable, student-centred learning and an interest in curriculum development are essential. You will play an active role in shaping how narrative, sequential, and time-based image-making evolve within the subject area.
The Person
We’re looking for an innovative and engaged individual with a commitment to learning and teaching in Illustration Animation. You will hold an undergraduate degree in Illustration, Animation, or a related subject; a Higher Degree or Research Degree is desirable.
You will bring a strong understanding of graphic narrative and sequential image-making, including time-based and moving presentations of images. An experimental, forward-thinking approach to creative practice is essential.
We are seeking someone with an established or emerging profile in research, knowledge exchange, or higher education pedagogy. You should have proven experience in delivering high-quality teaching, assessment, feedback, and academic support to a diverse student body in higher education.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential, along with the ability to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary teams and a wider academic community.
The Faculty
Kingston School of Art (KSA) has a strong heritage. Since its origins in the late 19th century it has established an exceptional reputation and become one of the UK’s leading art and design educational institutions.
The Faculty combines a dedication to creative risk-taking, innovation and experimentation with a commitment to working with numerous local, national and global partners and collaborators to lead and shape the future of the creative and cultural industries. As an Art School within a university, KSA fuses the benefits of an art and design-focused identity with the ability to be at the forefront of exciting cross-disciplinary developments in diverse areas such as health, business, engineering and the humanities and social sciences.
Ranked in the top five per cent of the world for art and design education by QS Top Universities, KSA produces globally celebrated alumni, high performing courses, impactful research performance and regularly achieves industry and student awards while engaging with the latest thinking from industry practitioners.
The Faculty works with leading brands and institutions forging exciting partnerships with organisations like the ICA, the Design Museum and the BFI. More recently, the Faculty has expanded its international presence through partnerships with the Indian Institute of Art and Design and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, America.
With a wide variety of disciplines taught within the Faculty, KSA offers opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration in research and teaching – providing both exceptional choice for students and a stimulating environment for academics in the creative fields.