Lecturer in Music

The award-winning School of Arts & Creative Industries (SACI) at Edinburgh Napier University plays an active part in the creative industries in Scotland.

Currently ranking as a top 3 UK modern university for Music (2nd of 37) in The Guardian University Guide 2023, we are committed to creating a positive, empowering, and inclusive environment for teaching, learning, and scholarship for our students and staff alike. We offer a BA Music programme, an MA Music programme, and have a vibrant culture of research students from MRes to PhD.

As part of our ongoing initiative to unlock innovation and growth while nurturing talent, we are currently recruiting a full time Lecturer in Music to act as a key contributor to the academic team in the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The Role:

The position of Lecturer in Music will give you the opportunity to become part of a team of academics and practitioners with diverse interests and experience, working with colleagues in contributing to our vibrant and progressive teaching and learning culture, and to scholarship/practice within the department.

You will be in an excellent position to use your experience of teaching the contextual study of music to become a key contributor to the academic team in the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

You will have the opportunity to supervise and guide postgraduate students (MRes, MPhil, and PhD) with their research in historical, sociological, psychological and ethnomusicological subject areas, capitalising on your own specialisms in these areas.

Furthermore, you will have the remit to use your own track record of scholarship, as well as your experience in providing and developing teaching and learning in Music in the higher education context, to enable graduates to develop sustainable careers in tomorrow’s creative and connected communities.

What we will need from you:

• A Doctoral level qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Experience of contributing to taught postgraduate provision
• Experience and interest in teaching in the contextual study of music (e.g. historical, sociological, psychological, ethnomusicological)
• Experience of working in and/or researching the music industries.

The following attributes are also desirable:

• Music production skills.
• Studio engineering techniques and workflows.
• Performing and arranging in a range of contemporary contexts

For a full role profile and comprehensive list of duties, please click here.

Benefits we offer: 

Edinburgh Napier University is a forward-thinking institution, home to forward-thinking people, inspired by the world around us. Join us and you will find that we offer support and recognition wherever due, as well as fantastic benefits such as an attractive pension with employer contributions of 23%, 46 days holiday and annual cost-of-living pay increases.

There are professional development opportunities, discounted access to onsite sports facilities and a wide range of other staff discounts. For more information about our wide range of benefits, click here.

Additional information:

Hours: 35 per week

The closing date for this position is 11:59pm on 27^th April 2023. Interviews will be held on week commencing 15^th May 2023.

For more information about the SACI and Edinburgh Napier University in general, please click here.

Edinburgh Napier is committed to creating an environment where everyone feels proud, confident, challenged and supported and are holders of Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Diversity Champion status. Please see here for more information.

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