Lecturer in Music Education

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: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education; Applied Linguistics; Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

About the role

As member of the music team, you will be part of the International Music Education Research Centre (iMerc) within CCM, which is dedicated to research in music education, broadly defined. Its mission is to promote the UCL Institute of Education as a centre of international excellence in research and teaching in its field.

In this post you will make a significant academic contribution to teaching on the MA in Music Education, contributing to teaching on core and optional MA modules. You will work collaboratively to further develop the iMerc research profile, contributing to the advancement of scholarship in the field of music education, through refereed publications and other research activity at a level of national and, in due course, international significance.

For further information on this post, please contact Professor Graham F Welch graham.welch@ucl.ac.uk.

About you

With a doctorate in music education, music or a closely related subject, or equivalent experience, you will have a good understanding of common approaches to research in the social sciences applied to musical behaviour and development including related literature. In addition, you will have a track record of published research in music education.

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.

What we offer

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.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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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