Lecturer in Global Cultures Education

About us

The Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities is grounded in the tradition of studying human experience with an eye towards a changing world.

Drawing on methodologies and subject specialisms across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, it is home to the BA in Liberal Arts, modules in Cultural Competency, and the MA in Global Cultures, a fully online programme and the first of its kind at King's.

Located in Central London, the department uses the city as laboratory, encouraging students to think about the relationship between past and present, and between the global and the local. As a city with rich and layered cultures, London is an ideal site for students in Interdisciplinary Humanities to develop the skills critical to being global citizens.

Drawing on our research expertise in subjects ranging from the medical humanities to cultural production, and from critical theory to politics, we aim to equip students with the ability to map the contours of contemporary problems using the approaches, skills, and knowledge from multiple disciplines. This allows students to learn about the diversity of human experience from a range of perspectives.

Our research and teaching works across many departments ranked top 10 in the QS World University Rankings (2024) and classed as 'world-leading' in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). This makes Interdisciplinary Humanities a truly innovative department within King's and beyond.

About the role

We are seeking a Lecturer in Global Cultures Education, with interests and experience in interdisciplinary studies, online pedagogies, and global cultures. This temporary post will cover periods of maternity and paternity leave from 1st September 2025 – 30th August 2026. This lectureship will fall within the Academic Education Pathway, which is focused on the delivery of education, education-related scholarship, and leadership in education. The ability to teach in a global context across at least one of the following areas would be an advantage: cultural studies; indigenous studies; postcolonial and decolonial studies.

The applicant will be required to have a PhD in a relevant field within the Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences, and experience in teaching and academic administration in higher education. The lecturer will contribute to teaching, administration and pastoral support for the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities.

This department offers interdisciplinary undergraduate & postgraduate programmes that span the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Our twenty-first century approach to education enables graduates to develop a flexible, interdisciplinary skillset – equipping them to address complex, multi-faceted problems in a globalised world. We seek applicants who can contribute to our goals to deliver innovative, inclusive, and socially engaged education and to diversify our curriculum. Our approach to learning in the Liberal Arts programme is student-centred, research and scholarship-based, co-creative and highly interdisciplinary.

Working in multidisciplinary teaching teams, the post-holder will contribute to in-person teaching on the Liberal Arts BA & Cultural Competency UG modules, as well as online teaching on the MA in Global Cultures. Teaching may include:

• 4ABLLIBIB2 Writing Liberal Arts
• 5ACC0001 Cultural Competency: Professionalism and Practice
• 6ABLLIB3 Translation Across Disciplines
• 6ACC0001 Cultural competency: mixing methods, from knowing to doing
• 7ABLGC08 Creating Connections: Integrating Knowledge in a Fragmenting World
• 7ABLG11 Independent Research Project

The lecturer will provide pastoral support & academic advice for personal tutees. Commitment to and experience of pastoral care and supporting student wellbeing is highly desirable. Pursuit of innovative and interdisciplinary teaching & scholarship, appropriate to career stage, will be expected.

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