UCL
Lecturer in Contemporary Moving Image 0.5FTE
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Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.
We are looking to appoint an exceptional Lecturer in Contemporary Moving Image.
UCL's BA Media blends creative media production and critical thinking through practice-as-research. Unlike purely practical film production or game development programmes, students critically engage with theories of media and technology, addressing these concepts directly within their practical work. Students explore digital and neural media, interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, fine art, programming, and animatics through making, experimentation, and reflection. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/media-ba
About the Role
The Lecturer in Contemporary Moving Image will support students in developing experimental work at the frontier of 21st century moving image practices, while demonstrating a nuanced and critical understanding of the relationship between art-making, technology, and culture. The postholder will bring experience of creating inclusive and equitable learning environments, including the decolonisation of thought and the promotion of diversity within art and technology.
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The postholder will play an important role in the delivery of the BA Media.
In addition to teaching at undergraduate level, the post-holder may contribute to Masters and PhD programmes in media, and to research, knowledge exchange and consultancy activities.
About You
You will be a creative practitioner with a recognised practice in contemporary moving image fields, and demonstrable experience in directing and presenting ambitious public-facing moving image productions. You will teach moving image as an experimental and critical medium, making use of film and video technologies, animation, virtual production, storytelling alongside key competencies in camera and lighting, NLEs (Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve), and direction of projects involving cast and/or crew, from development through to delivery/presentation.
With a doctorate (completed or close to completion) or comparable professional practice or/and industry experience, in games development, art and technology or creative computing, you will also have evidence of potential to produce internationally excellent, original and significant practice and research.
For a full job description and to apply for this role please visit UCL's online recruitment portal (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs) and search using vacancy reference B16-02254
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Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
What We Offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
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