Lecturer (Teaching) - Communication

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Communication and Media Studies; Applied Linguistics; Multimodality studies; Language Learning and Intercultural Communication; Learning with Digital Technologies; Art; Design and Museology; Music Education; Academic writing; English education.

About the role

We are seeking a Lecturer (Teaching) in Communication to join our fast-growing BA Communications programme. The successful candidate will develop and deliver engaging modules in strategic communication, marketing and digital communication, and promotional cultures, while also contributing to other modules in the programme.

This post is available from 1^st September 2025.

For further information on this post, please contact Dr Sarah Gong, BA Communications Programme Lead via email:

Applicants should preferably have a doctorate (completed or close to completion) or comparable industry experience in Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, or a related field. With significant industry experience, they will bring real-world insight to teaching our dynamic and diverse student cohort, which includes many international students

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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