Teaching Fellow in Creative Industries

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £37,369 to £46,970 with potential progression once in post to £49,798

Brief JD

As a full-time Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Creative Industries, the postholder will be expected to undertake up to 12 hours of timetabled teaching per week at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The postholder will also undertake personal tutoring and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate taught dissertations. The post will include organisation, management and leadership duties. The successful candidate will have considerable relevant teaching, assessment and professional experience in, for example, creative practice, leadership and project management to contribute to our modules in storytelling and project development. Committed to providing an excellent student learning experience, with a background in theatre and/or creative arts and an active interest in and ability to teach digital modalities, the post holder will be involved in supervising a range of student projects across UG and PG levels. Teaching will include making creative work with undergraduate students through live and digital means in our studio spaces. 
 
The Teaching Fellow will contribute to teaching in the following areas:  

• leadership in the creative industries.
• creative project development and management, from ideation to creative output.
• business discourse for the creative industries.
• supervision of creative practice as research dissertation projects.
• The global dimension of the creative industries, especially the Global South. 

The post is fixed-term, for ten months from 01 January 2027 – 31 October 2027 due to the non-recurrent funding stream. In order to align with teaching requirements, the successful candidate would need to be available to start in post by 01 January 2027.

Person spec

• Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area or equivalent qualifications.
• High level analytical capability.
• Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully, including across creative practice in studio spaces and through practical, embodied workshops with students.
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively.
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics and duties under the Equality Act 2010. Including fostering good relations and advancing the universities Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED). 

Informal enquiries can be made to: Chris Nunn, c.nunn@bham.ac.uk

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