Opportunity for a lecturer to be responsible for teaching, curriculum development, and on-going scholarship on BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation.
This course is part of the Culture and Enterprise programme at Central Saint Martins. You will work collaboratively within a course team, deploying specialist expertise to develop pedagogy and the curriculum in innovative and critical directions.
The course is broadly humanities-based, situated within an art school context. Combining cultural theories with the practices of curating and journalism, it covers a range of disciplines that includes design, fine art, architecture, fashion, film, performance and literature. Increasingly concerned with interrogating histories and identities, it places critical thinking at the heart of cultural practice. From historical and archival research to curating exhibitions, making zines to arts organisation and festival planning, and from long-form writing to audio-visual essays and digital experiences, the course explores and expands what practice can mean in the humanities, its applications and the value it can bring.
With the course going through the university’s scheduled reapproval process in 2022/23, there is immediate opportunity to be part of a progressive course team in reviewing and reframing the course curriculum, design and delivery, with particular attention on how the course engages with identity and diversity, contested notions of culture, the emergencies of social injustice and climate change, and new relations between conventional and digital environments.
Your profile
You are a strong and effective communicator who is collaborative and empathetic in the way you engage with others. You will have a strong understanding of the pedagogical principles underpinning curatorial practices and have experience of teaching, be active in practice, research and/or scholarly activity and aware of the broad academic and professional contexts relating to the course. You will also have experience working on change-making projects and with people from diverse or marginalised backgrounds. You will be able to demonstrate engagement with current challenges, issues and debates regarding racial justice, climate emergency and the post pandemic context and their implications for what and how a course like BA Culture, Criticism and Curation might develop.
You will also possess a strong track record and evidence of being responsible for all year groups of undergraduate students’ pastoral support, progress and attendance. You will also have experience of liaising with staff members including hourly paid lecturers and core team members.
If you have any queries about this role please contact the CSM Resourcing Team, email jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 8793.
