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 in the middle of October 2026.

You willwork in collaboration with the Course Leader to bringyourknowledgeand practice in photography tothis new, fully online,creative and future facing course for a new global audience of learners.

Youllwork with Learning Designers and the specialist UAL Online production teamto create flexible,inclusiveand inspiring learning. Your teaching willnurture 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 contemporary approaches to distributingcreative work, audience engagement, and public-facing practice, including formats such as online publishing, curation, podcasts, talks, social media, and educational or other discursive platforms.

You will help students understand how photographic practices circulate within today's attention economy, how to communicate the ideas driving their practice, how to reach relevant audiences, and how to situate their work in relation to wider creative and cultural conversations.

Youllhave strong teamworking and collaborative skills and be willing to use Miro and shared documents.Youllbe ready to work withproject 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 willdraw on yourteaching experienceto support a globally dispersed cohortof fully online learnersto develop their individual digital and photographic practices.

Youdontneed 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 Cherelle Williams, Resourcing Assistant, lcc.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk

If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please contactlcc.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 30 June 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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