Unit Leader, MA Photography and Digital Practice (Online)

We are looking for an experienced academic to develop teaching and learning materials for a unit of a new fully online MA in Photography and Digital Practices.

The post is for 2 days per week over 8.5 months, beginning at the start of August 2026.

You will work in collaboration with the Course Leader to bring your knowledge and practice in photography to this new, fully online, creative and future facing course for a new global audience of learners.

You’ll work with Learning Designers and the specialist UAL Online production team to create flexible, inclusive and inspiring learning. Your teaching will nurture experimentation, engagement with digital tools and methods and support students to develop individual contemporary digital practices.

About you
You will have specialist teaching experience in image-based creative practice, with a demonstrable background in teaching photography and, ideally, other forms of digital image-making. You will also bring extensive conceptual and practical experience of socially engaged, collaborative, and networked practices, alongside an in-depth understanding of how photography operates across digital platforms and communities online. This should include the ability to critically engage with questions of identity, representation, ethics, platform circulation, and community building, and to support students in developing co-created and critically informed approaches to photography and digital practice.

You’ll have strong teamworking and collaborative skills and be willing to use Miro and shared documents. You’ll be ready to work with project managers, learning designers and others in a mixed discipline team working to tight deadlines. You will bring diverse perspectives and industry voices into the new course curriculum and will draw on your teaching experience to support a globally dispersed cohort of fully online learners to develop their individual digital and photographic practices.

You don’t need extensive experience of online teaching and learning, but you do need to be open to the advantages of flexible fully online delivery to widen access to Higher Education.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser - lcc.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk.

To apply please click the 'Apply' button.

Closing date: 27 May 2026 23:55.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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