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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 lab 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, we wish to appoint a Reader in Regenerative Structures & Materials. The postholder will have expert knowledge of techniques and emerging practices that treat the natural and built environment as a single generative continuum. They will take a leading role in our technical and environmental studies team and climate action taskforce, contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum development, as well as professional engagement. The successful candidate will be expected to actively support our diverse student body.
The post-holder will be an active researcher and expected to develop their own distinctive research and knowledge exchange profile 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.
For further information and to apply for this post, please click ‘Apply’ and you will be redirected to our website.
At the University of Westminster, diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity are at the core of how we engage with students, colleagues, applicants, visitors and all our stakeholders.
We are fully committed to enabling a supportive and safe learning and working environment which is equitable, diverse and inclusive, is based on mutual respect and trust, and in which harassment and discrimination are neither tolerated nor acceptable.
The University has adopted Smart Working principles to support and further our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion aims of being an inclusive, collaborative and flexible employer. Further details of Smart Working can be discussed at interview stage.
Closing date: midnight on 2 May 2023
Interviews are likely to be held on: 19 May 2023
Administrative contact (for queries only): Recruitment@westminster.ac.uk
