Teaching Fellow in Creative Industries

School of English, Drama and Creative Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK.

As a full-time Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Creative Industries, the postholder will be expected to undertake up to 12 hours of timetabled teaching per week at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The postholder will also undertake personal tutoring and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate taught dissertations. The post will include organisation, management and leadership duties.

The successful candidate will have considerable relevant teaching, assessment and professional experience in, for example, creative practice, leadership and project management to contribute to our modules in storytelling and project development. Committed to providing an excellent student learning experience, with a background in theatre and/or creative arts and an active interest in and ability to teach digital modalities, the post holder will be involved in supervising a range of student projects across UG and PG levels. Teaching will include making creative work with undergraduate students through live and digital means in our studio spaces.

The Teaching Fellow will contribute to teaching in the following areas:
- Leadership in the creative industries
- Creative project development and management, from ideation to creative output
- Business discourse for the creative industries
- Supervision of creative practice as research dissertation projects
- The global dimension of the creative industries, especially the Global South

Main Duties:
- Teach modules at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduate and postgraduate students, predominantly through allocated lectures, workshops and seminars, so that the School's teaching objectives are met.
- Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
- Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
- Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
- Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
- Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining.
- Frequently update own subject expertise.
- Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
- Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
- Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
- Promote equality and values diversity, acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.

Person Specification:
- Higher degree relevant to research or teaching area or equivalent qualifications
- High level analytical capability
- Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully, including across creative practice in studio spaces and through practical, embodied workshops with students
- Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics and duties under the Equality Act 2010, including fostering good relations and advancing the university's Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)

The University is committed to proactively addressing barriers experienced by some groups and holds Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations.