Course Tutor - MA Cities

Part time - 22.2 hours per week

Fixed term – 12 months

UAL - Various sites, London UK

Shape the next generation of creative thinkers and play a meaningful role in teaching critical, experimental approaches to understanding, imagining and shaping our cities.

MA Cities at Central Saint Martins is a distinctive, studio-based postgraduate course exploring creative approaches to city-making, with social and climate justice at its heart. Bringing together multi-media research, design, policy, situated practice and collaborative experimentation, the course challenges conventional approaches to urban development, regeneration and place-making, and asks how creative city-making practices can respond to the complex social, ethical and environmental challenges facing cities today.

As Course Tutor, you’ll play an important part in shaping the course’s teaching and development, supporting students to develop projects drawing on a range of skills including filmmaking, writing, site analysis and GIS mapping, and apply them critically. Working closely with the Course Leader, you’ll bring your specialist expertise to teaching and curriculum development, helping students develop ambitious, critical and propositional city-making projects. You’ll bring new perspectives to the curriculum, support an excellent student experience and help ensure the course remains at the forefront of creative and critical practice. 

You’ll teach and assess postgraduate students, provide academic and pastoral support, and support pedagogic innovation, knowledge exchange and partnership activity. Central to the role will be a commitment to challenging established thinking, promoting diversity and inclusivity, and encouraging students to consider alternative ways in which cities can be understood, shaped and experienced. 

About you

You’ll have experience of teaching and assessment in Higher Education, or equivalent experience, alongside a relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent professional experience.

You’ll bring strong subject knowledge and relevant professional practice, an inquiring and innovative approach to teaching, and a genuine commitment to supporting a diverse postgraduate student community.

This is an opportunity to join Central Saint Martins’ Spatial Practices Programme and contribute to a course exploring some of the most urgent questions facing contemporary cities, while helping emerging creative practitioners to develop new ways to respond to them.

To apply please click the apply button. 

If you have any queries about this role, or wish to have a discussion about the specific requirements of role, please do feel free to contact Diana Ibanez Lopez, at d.ibanezlopez@csm.arts.ac.uk

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact CSM Staff Recruitment, at: CSM.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk

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

Closing date: 18 September 2026 at 12:00.

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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