The Faculty of Arts and Humanities values outstanding scholarship and pedagogic research fitting to the Academic Education Pathway (AEP) role, which prioritises educational enquiry and innovation, and pedagogic development (including PGR supervision, where appropriate). Scholarship represents an important vehicle for our strategic aims in enhancing teaching, learning, the student experience, and the broader academic culture of the Faculty and the wider College. Arts and Humanities educational scholarship seeks to make outstanding contributions in this domain, nationally and internationally. These posts will not require postholder’s to deliver research outputs not relating to education. Successful postholders will build scholarship which enhances the student experience across their home department and the wider Faculty and College.

The Academic Education Pathway offers a framework for recognition, reward, and opportunities for advancement for exceptional educators at King’s. The academic profile of AEP staff is distinct from that of Education & Research (E&R) staff. AEP academics are appointed on the evidence of their track record as outstanding teachers, and their potential for and/or experience of high-quality scholarship and contribution to educational innovation and leadership.

Department Information

The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI)

The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) is a world-leading centre for studying the vital relationships between culture, media & the creative industries. Launched in 2002, and now offering an undergraduate degree and three Masters level programmes, CMCI provides an unparalleled opportunity for students to explore, understand and transform creative, media, and cultural production, distribution, and consumption. The Department is recruiting eight new posts comprising a mix of permanent research-focused and academic education pathway positions.

CMCI is distinctive in its interdisciplinarity and bridging of theory and practice. The Department’s taught programmes, including upwards of eighty modules, offer our international cohorts of students a diverse array of learning opportunities. Staff and students work with an ever-expanding network of local and global cultural and creative partners, forging opportunities for industry engagement, career talks, creative practice and collaborative dissertations. CMCI’s research impact and research environment were rated as either ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF2021).

The Department’s teaching, research and academic leadership are underpinned by four strategic priorities – inclusivity, sustainability, reflexivity and care. These priorities inform our curriculum development (e.g. modules on Diversity Matters, Culture & Activism, Sustainability, Care and Culture) as well as our research (e.g. Developing Inclusive & Sustainable Creative Economies, Sustainable Cultural Futures). We value wellbeing and playing a transformational role in society. New post-holders will be joining a vibrant and forward-looking department that embraces interdisciplinarity, creativity and diversity, and which genuinely seeks to nurture students and staff.

The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH)

The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is one of the largest and most prestigious DH Departments in the UK and internationally. DDH has expanded a great deal in the last fifteen years. In this time “the digital”, both in and as related to the humanities, has changed beyond all recognition. As well as revolutionizing the way in which we deal with data, computation and analysis in the humanities, we have seen the rise of the interactive World Wide Web, of social media, the digital economy, and key contemporary issues such as fake news and misinformation. Our philosophy is that none of these ways that “the digital” relate to the “the human” can be researched or taught in isolation; and this has underpinned our expansion. We therefore encourage applications for these posts from across the DH broadly defined.

These new posts will consolidate our research and teaching in key areas of DH including computational humanities, digital content management and digital culture and society; and engages with emergent areas, including AI and society, and race and gender in DH. These appointments will also enable us to expand and improve the activities that make the DH student experience at King’s unique, and help students to enhance their skills, such as our Writing and Coding Labs.

The Department of Film Studies

The Department of Film Studies is large, dynamic and vibrant. It is one of the leading departments in the UK and the largest in central London. The Department of Film Studies offers unparalleled historical, theoretical, and critical tools to understand the social, cultural, political, and economic importance of film and media in our world and to further engage with the creative potential of cinematic and moving images. Centrally located in London, just across the Thames from the British Film Institute and surrounded with all the exciting cultural and exhibition venues, it is one of the most vibrant places to engage with film and media culture and practices in the UK, receiving consistently high rankings in international university league tables and achieving high ratings for the quality of its teaching in the National Student Survey.

The Department of Film Studies makes a priority of discussion, debate, and improvements with regards to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and incorporates both student and staff opinions on ED&I matter in our curriculum, including the variety of modules we offer, their methodologies, readings, and filmographies. The Department and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities offer various mentoring schemes to support the career of staffs from underrepresented groups as well as benefit from mutual mentoring among colleagues to share their lived experiences with diverse backgrounds.