Senior Lecturer in Film (Teaching and Research)

About the Role

The Department of Film, within the School of the Arts is looking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Film (Teaching & Research). This post is full-time (35 hours p/w) and fixed-term with an expected start date of 01 January 2027 until 31 December 2027.

Duties will include convening and teaching postgraduate and undergraduate modules in film and in film practice (including hybrid theory-practice modules), contributing to MA provision as appropriate, (co)-supervising PhD students, and undertaking administrative roles as required within the Department. You will be expected to teach on some of the following modules: Film Archaeology; Modern/Postmodern Cinema; Making Media; Creative Documentary and Digital Filmmaking.  

You will also play a key role in the strategic development of new modules in film practice and digital creation that align with current and emerging industry trends, thus embedding emerging digital creation skills in our Curriculum 2030 and strengthening relationships with the wider creative industries.

You will make a significant contribution to the maintenance of research leadership in film practice and digital creation through strategic partnership development and impact leadership, through advising and mentoring on practice-based research, and through leading on strategic grant capture by continuing the pipeline established with our recent major collaborative OHC-bearing awards.

About You

You will hold a PhD in Film or have an equivalent professional qualification, together with the ability to deliver teaching and assessment at undergraduate and postgraduate level. You will be able to work across areas of film practice and digital creation and to lead modules in areas of film theory and hybrid theory/practice modules. You will be comfortable playing a key role in the strategic development of new modules in film practice and digital creation. You will be an experienced researcher, able to draw on your own outputs across written or practice-based research to contribute to research leadership in Film as we approach REF2029. The ability to work constructively and flexibly with colleagues, good organisational and communicative skills are also essential.

About the School

Further details can be found at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts

The post is based at the Mile End Campus, London. The starting salary will be Grade 7, £64,331 - £71,834 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. We continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, believing that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 02/10/2026, 23:55 

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