Associate Lecturer in Fine Art

Location: Britannia Mill

Contract Type: Fixed Term until 30/05/2025

We have one simple promise – to make a positive impact. Through our ground-breaking research, teaching excellence and commitment to sustainable living, we are changing lives for the better.

The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.

We have some of the best university facilities in the UK and achieve outstanding results for our teaching and research and have been awarded Gold in the prestigious Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 – making it one of the top universities in the country recognised for its outstanding student experience and student outcomes. 

Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees an inclusive culture that centres itself around staff wellbeing, where you can be confident you will receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to enhance your skills.

About the College

The School of Arts is a place where talent thrives and ambitions are realised. Our impressive facilities range from our producing and learning theatre, photography lab, purpose-built studios and a huge variety of creative spaces.

We are a creative community that is supportive in helping students shape their individual identities and styles. Our courses focus on graduate employability and helping establish our students as artists and practitioners.

Join us to work with leading artists and educators in developing student creativity through experimentation with media, materials, and ideas to emerge as a confident, practising creatives in the field. Our dynamic and ambitious staff team are highly respected and internationally renowned artists, researchers, and educators. Resident in the Britannia Mill campus, our studios offer scope for students to develop experimental and critically informed work.

The BA (Hons) Fine Art programme within the School of Arts at the University of Derby offers students the potential to develop  critical and creative approaches to Fine Art practice. With a focus on independent, experimental, collaborative, and interdisciplinary practice, the programme allows students to emerge as confident practising artists. 

About the Role

In this role, you will deliver and support teaching within the Fine Art Department for undergraduate level students on a sessional contract basis. You will be responsible for both solo and collaborative teaching, which will include preparation and assessment responsibilities. You will work within the department team as a valued colleague and directed by the programme leader. This includes teaching within a variety of settings including workshops, individual tutorials, seminars, and lectures.

About You

The ideal candidate will have a first and second degree in Fine Art of Fine Art related practice and vibrant engagement as a practicing artist evidenced with a portfolio of work. They will understand the symbiosis of practice and research and demonstrate experience related to educational activities, teaching, and public engagement contexts.

Actual hours and days will be described in a ‘Schedule of Work’.

For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Assistant Head of Discipline - Gemma Marmalade via G.Marmalade@derby.ac.uk.

For enquiries regarding your application and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment team via recruitment@derby.ac.uk.

For more information and to apply on-line, please click the above “Apply” button.

Advert Closes: Sunday 29 September 2024

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