Lecturer in Painting (0.6 FTE)

The University of Brighton seeks a practice-focused academic with expert knowledge and experience of Fine Art Painting practices. 

Fine Art is one of four subject groupings in the School of Art and Media. As a subject group it has an established history and comprise of highly respected courses, which place value on how practice is integrated with cultural and critical studies. You will be joining a staff team of practising artists and researchers, who bring their real-world expertise to shape the curriculum and the learning experience of the students.

The successful candidate will play an important and active part in developing practice and theoretical strands of learning within the BA Fine Art Painting BA course. You will also collaborate with students and colleagues to realise a collective vision. Central to this will be the ability to build a peer learning community which is both supportive and stable and at the same time challenging, vibrant and dynamic.

You will have:

• A strong background in undergraduate teaching and a substantial research portfolio.
• The ability to work as part of a team and to effectively time manage and meet pressing deadlines are essential.
• A degree and up-to-date, sound knowledge of the subject including current professional/vocational developments.

The successful candidate will join the School of Art and Media Fine Art programme based at our Grand Parade campus and will be based within the Fine Art Painting team. 

This is a permanent, part-time post.

Online preliminary Interviews to take place week commencing 24^th November and 1^st  December, followed by on campus interviews, which will be scheduled in the week commencing Dec 15^th 2025.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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