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This post is full time and permanent, working 35 hours per week.
The School of Architecture + Cities is one of the leading schools of architecture in the U.K. Based at the University’s Marylebone Campus, the School enjoys outstanding purpose-built studios and a world-class Fabrication Laboratory featuring extensive digital and analogue workshops. Maintaining its Polytechnic origins, the School offers a transformative education for all. The School’s professionally accredited undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in architecture and cognate disciplines are characterised by a triangulation of teaching, practice and research, combining practical skills and rigorous academic understanding with cross-disciplinary practice. Recent coursework can be seen here.
As the School moves to a paradigm of architectural education based on regenerative principles, professional engagement and ethical practice we wish to appoint a Lecturer in Professional Studies. This appointment is an opportunity to contribute to the range of courses in the School and including the very successful PG Diploma in Professional Practice course as well as the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in architecture and planning, undertake module leadership, course development and personal tutoring.
The post-holder will have expert knowledge in different forms of professional practice, ethical practice and the legal context of architectural practice, and demonstrate an ability to help students synthesise that knowledge into their design practice. S/he will be expected to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education across the school as part of our professional studies team. S/he will be expected to actively support our diverse student body.
The post-holder will be an active researcher, and develop their research and knowledge exchange as part of the School’s Making & Practice Research Group. Other contributions may include the supervision of PhDs, the instigation of new research and knowledge exchange projects and applications for external funding, as well as publishing scholarly outputs, and contributing to the broader research culture within the School.
Applicants should have a PhD or equivalent level of knowledge or practice-based experience, teaching experience and a research or knowledge exchange background or well-established professional expertise. As well a full-time appointment, if there are suitable candidates, we will consider appointing two 0.5fte part-time lecturers for the role.
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Further information can be found in the job description and person specification, which can be accessed through this link too.
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Closing date: midnight on: 07 August 2023
Interviews are likely to be held on: 18 August 2023
Administrative contact (for queries only): Recruitment@westminster.ac.uk
