Job Description

Ref Number

B16-01888

Professional Expertise

Academic Leadership

Department

School of Education (B16)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

68,284-76,244

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

04-Sep-2025

About us

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IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.



Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.



The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Communication and media studies, Applied linguistics, Second and foreign language teaching and learning, Intercultural communication, Academic writing, English education, Music education, Art, design, and museology, and Living and learning with technology.

About the role

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We are looking for digital media practitioner-researchers to lead UCL's BA Media programme. This unique course blends creative media production and media theory, preparing its students to develop careers in the rapidly evolving creative industries. Through making, experimentation, critical reflection, and engagement with theory, students become experts in digital media, including film, games, and interactive media.
Please follow this link to the prospectus to find out more:
ps://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/media-ba
We seek world-class talent; candidates must have an outstanding research track record.
You will cultivate critical reflection through digital making, encouraging students to engage with materials, technologies, aesthetics, and craftsmanship. They will support the integration of theory and practice by embedding critical approaches to media and technology, notably film, games, and interactive and immersive media. They will enable students to apply relevant theory directly within their creative and practical work.

About you

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We welcome applications from practitioner-researchers with significant experience in leading an undergraduate programme.



You have significant experience in leading an undergraduate programme and the ability to cultivate critical reflection through digital making. You are skilled at supporting the integration of theory and practice by embedding critical approaches to media and technology, notably film, games, and interactive and immersive media. You bring subject expertise in an area directly relevant to the programme, for example,

film making games design interactive and immersive media computational culture and practice creative AI the politics of media and audiences media aesthetics media culture.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.



It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one. Further enquiries should be directed to Professor Jeff Bezemer j.bezemer@ucl.ac.uk

What we offer

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As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:


41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.



We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.



These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.



Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.