Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering and Games Development

Post Type:

Full time – 37 hours

This is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and ambitious Department of Computing at the University of Worcester. The Department is based within the rapidly expanding Worcester Business School at the University of Worcester City Campus. Over the past year the School has experienced growing numbers of students joining our undergraduate and postgraduate courses. As a result, we are seeking to complement our team with an experienced Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering and Games Development.

Our overriding aim is to be an outstanding place at which to study through provision of an excellent Learning and Teaching environment. We offer professionally relevant courses, informed by the needs of industry and delivered through an experiential learning approach. Our courses are inspired by contemporary research with a curriculum that develops knowledge, skills and the ability to think critically and be innovative.  

The Department of Computing conducts research across several themes including Machine Learning, Data Science, Intelligent Interactive Systems, Computing in Education and Cyber Security and hosts the Digital Innovation and Intelligent Systems Research Group.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in Computer Science (inc. at or near completion) and have contemporary subject knowledge and/or experience of professional practice in several of the following areas:

Software Engineering

•   Modern Software Engineering concepts and principles (SOLID, MVC, design patterns)
•   Real-world practical experience of software development.
•   Object Oriented programming languages such as Java, C#, C++.
•   Software engineering workflows and tools (DevOps, Agile, version control)

Games Design, Development and Engineering

•   Games Engines such as Unity or Unreal
•   2D / 3D modelling and animation.
•   Games production pipelines and workflows. 
•   UI design and Games UX.     

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of existing and new course offerings in our Game Design and Software Engineering portfolio alongside contributing to the research and knowledge exchange activities within the Department of Computing. 

Informal queries in relation to this vacancy are welcome and should be directed to Dr Chris Bowers, Head of Department of Computing by emailing c.bowers@worc.ac.uk

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