We are looking for Associate Lecturers across all units on the Diploma and Graduate Diploma in Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute.
The UAL Creative Computing Institute at University of the Arts London supports interdisciplinary teaching, research and knowledge exchange at the intersection of creativity and computational technologies. The Institute aims to work across domains such as machine learning and artificial intelligence and explores how the contemporary world is being defined through human computer interaction and social platforms.
Students from across UAL’s courses and colleges join us between their 2nd and 3rd year of studies for a chance to explore and experiment with computing in their practices. Students learn to code, craft digital experiences, explore machine intelligence, approach tech critically and more.
The Associate Lecturer post involves responsibility for delivering academic and pastoral teaching including providing formative feedback to students, enhancing their creative coding and critical knowledge and building a studio culture that enables collaborative studies and a place to evolve individual and group learning. As the course evolves, we require additional specialist expertise provided by practitioners that can inspire and motivate students to realise their ambitions to create.
Why choose us?
University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive salary and pension plus a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity.
Your profile
You will possess excellent communication and organisational skills and have a track record of working effectively as part of a team. You may have some experience of teaching within a higher education environment, and strong skills in effective planning, implementation and delivery.
You will bring initiative and agility and enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You are keen to learn pedagogies approaches, adopting flipped classes when required and blended learning (some pre-recorded, some live) and work with the students as a team.
You will have an established practice and profile in creative computing. You are actively engaged with current discipline debates on social impact and ethical approaches for creative computing. You will bring commitment to exploring, expanding and progressing the field of computational practice.
Depending on which units you are engaged with, you would have specialist knowledge in coding (Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Processing, API, machine learning, Unity/Unreal), Physical Computing (C++/Arduino) and/or animation, data visualisation and analysis, getting independent writing gigs, writing on AI ethics. Expertise across Science and Technology Studies and Philosophy is desirable. You would be able to deliver content in one or more of these areas to a cohort of students who have just started learning on these subjects for the first time.
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Closing date: 3 August 2022 23:55.
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