Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Sustainable Fashion Management)

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is a unique environment where Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences sit alongside the Manchester School of Art and the Manchester Fashion Institute. Student experience is at the heart of everything we do. We're proud to offer state-of-the-art facilities, including digital and technical workshops, studios and gallery spaces designed to enhance learning and collaboration. 

About the team: 

Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI) has an established reputation within the Higher Education sector, we align ourselves with elite fashion schools worldwide. We are uniquely positioned as one the largest specialist fashion providers in UK HE, providing depth and breadth of expertise in our subject. We are a hub, working collaboratively across disciplines and borders, our research and teaching cross science, the arts, business, health, sociology, sport and digital. We continue to build an environment for staff and students where diversity and equality flourish, where innovation is powered by a multitude of perspectives and cultures. We are looking for a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Fashion Management to join our dynamic and growing team. The successful candidates will contribute to the students' educational journey, bringing experience, skills, and knowledge to inspire the next generation of fashion talent for an ever-changing industry. We actively seek research active academics with interests that respond to the grand challenges facing society in a fast-changing twenty-first century, delivering research foregrounded in critical fashion thinking and practice around cutting-edge topics such as ethics, diversity, sustainability, supply chain, digital innovation and e-commerce.  

About the role:

We seek a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Fashion Management to contribute to teaching and student experience across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with interests and expertise including but not limited to: Strategic Management, Operations and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Production management, Global Sourcing, International Business, Circular Economy. It should be noted that experience does not have to specifically be from fashion background, although we would seek assurance through the application process that you could apply your broader marketing expertise in a fashion context. 

The post holder (s) will also be expected to contribute to the research and/or knowledge exchange activities of the department for example by producing high quality research outputs, supervising PGR students, and developing funding bids OR demonstrate an interest in developing expertise and innovation in the delivery of teaching and/or student experience.   

About you:

Essential Skills: 

• A good first degree together with a PhD in a relevant discipline or equivalent qualifications.   
• Interests and expertise including but not limited to: Strategic Management, Operations and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Production management, Global Sourcing, International Business, Circular Economy. 
• Commitment to the University's strategic objectives, with a focus on supporting Education, Research and Knowledge Exchange. 
• Commitment to the University's policies and procedures including promoting equality in own area of responsibility and in general conduct. 

Desirable: 

• A PGCE, Certificate of Education, PGCLTHE or membership of the Higher Education Academy (or commitment to obtain within three years of appointment).  
• Membership of relevant Professional bodies, demonstrating professional standing. 
• Successfully publish results of research to the REF, in peer reviewed journals or monographs, or publish/exhibit professional practice 

For informal enquiries, please contact Helen McCormick, h.mccormick@mmu.ac.uk 

To apply please submit a CV and cover letter via our application portal. 

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