Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a world-leading specialist Performing Arts conservatoire, investing in the artists of today and tomorrow. It is a vibrant, international community of actors, musicians and production artists in the heart of the City of London and is ranked first in Arts, Drama & Music by the Complete University Guide 2024, in the top ten performing arts institutions in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2024, and first for Music in the Guardian Universities Guide 2023; Guildhall School has an overall score of 56% 4* (world-leading) in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2023) rating of Gold. A global leader in creative and professional practice, we promote innovation, experiment and research, with over 1,000 students in higher education, drawn from nearly 60 countries around the world.
We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Socially Engaged Practice, a crucial new role as part of Guildhall School’s evolving Institute for Social Impact in the Performing Arts. The postholder will support a review and relaunch of the Institute as a cross-School entity for excellent research, knowledge exchange, socially engaged practice and curriculum development. You will be an active researcher practitioner, capable of developing and publishing outputs that will be eligible for submission to the Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2028). Duties will include teaching, curriculum development, conducting research and engaging with working groups in relation to the activity of the Institute. Your role will be key to raising the profile of the Institute internally and externally as an internationally recognised centre of research and development for socially engaged practice in the performing arts, leasing with external partners where appropriate. The postholder should have significant higher education expertise in order to operate as a member of the academic staff, establishing closer links between the Institute, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and other relevant programmes of activity across the School.
Please note that this role will require an enhanced DBS check.
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Closing date for applications is Wednesday 29th November at 12.00 noon. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
Interviews will take place in week commencing 11th December.
Guildhall School welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are particularly keen to encourage interest from people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, Black, Asian, and other global majority backgrounds who are currently under-represented at Guildhall School. In recognising the positive value of diversity, we want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We are members of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who would like to be considered under this scheme and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. We support and provide adjustments for people with disabilities – if you have a disability and need help with the application process please contact us.
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