Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing and Knowledge Production

About us

The UCL Department of Information Studies (DIS) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities launched a new Information in Society BSc programme at UCL East in 2024. The department also offers postgraduate qualifications at the Bloomsbury campus for the library, archive, and information professions, publishing, information and data science and digital humanities, and collaborates in the delivery of an inter-faculty BSc in Information Management for Business. The post holder will teach across programmes (primarily the Information in Society BSc and Publishing MA programmes) and campuses. We have a strong international reputation for research and are deeply committed to teaching quality.

About the role

The Department of Information Studies wishes to appoint an innovative educator to a full-time lectureship (teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society, beginning in the academic year 2025-26.

We particularly welcome applicants with expertise of teaching in areas and concepts such as scholarly communication, publishing platforms, multimedia or interactive publishing, and publishing or information ethics. We are interested in those who can contribute to teaching on the creation, circulation, and use of information across a range of physical and digital spaces (such as bookshops, libraries, scholarly databases, social media and the dark web). The successful candidate will have a strong grounding in the critical study of information environments and be able to engage students in thinking about how knowledge is produced, circulated, and contested across diverse platforms and communities. They should demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching, drawing on fields such as publishing and related disciplines such as media studies, communication, STS, or digital humanities. Experience or knowledg e of supervising undergraduate research and coordinating large-scale projects is key, as is the ability to support students in developing rigorous independent research. Our department proudly teaches students from a wide range of national, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Applicants with both local and cross-cultural or international expertise are particularly encouraged to apply.

The teaching focus will initially be modules in the Information in Society BSc at the UCL East Campus within the School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI), and the MA Publishing at the UCL Bloomsbury Campus. This will include developing a third-year undergraduate module on Information and Cultural Spaces and lead optional modules on the MA Publishing programme. The successful candidate will be expected to supervise Masters and undergraduate dissertations and undertake academic related administrative duties.

The appointment is a full-time, open ended role beginning in 2025.

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