Job Description

Lecturer in Communication

Role

: Lecturer in Communcation

Department:

Ulster University Business School

Grade

: Grade 7/8 (41,086 - 58,260 per annum)

Responsible to

: Head of School

Campus:

Belfast campus

Permanent - Full Time

The School of Communication and Media is a multi-campus, multi-discipline school delivering a wide range of highly successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes from Communication degrees such as Communication, Advertising and Marketing and Communication Management and Public Relations to Media Production degrees such as Journalism or Film and TV Production. We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Communication to teach into our suite of Communication programmes. The Communication programmes at Ulster integrate pure and applied approaches to address questions such as how individuals communicate in different settings and how organisations in the private, public and third sector engage and communicate with stakeholders. The success of our programmes lies in the multi-disciplinary nature of our curriculum, which is firmly grounded in a social science perspective on Communication, combined with a shared emphasis on integration of theory and practice, led by academics with strong industry connections. The postholder will be expected to contribute flexibly across our Communication programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to deliver excellent research and impact of a standard returnable to the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Closing Date: 14/11/2025 - 23:30

If you don't currently have the right to work and live in the UK, we are able to offer sponsorship for Skilled Work Visas subject to UK Visa's and Immigration (UKVI) requirements if the role meets the Home Office eligibility requirements. Details can be found on the Home Office website - https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

If you have any specific queries regarding this post, please contact the named email address for the vacancy, as listed on the main current vacancies landing page. If you have any specific queries regarding eligibility to work in the UK, our Resourcing Compliance team may be able to help: Resourcing-compliance@ulster.ac.uk

We may create a 12-month waiting list for same or similar roles within the Department / Faculty. The University reserves the right to extend the waiting list across the University if required for certain posts.

Ulster University holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advancing Gender equality in higher education. You can read more about what this means at https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/transformed-uk-athena-swan-charter and on our University website https://www.ulster.ac.uk/peopleandculture/employee-benefits/equality-diversity/athena-swan. The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment, including flexible working.

Job ID :

039146

Location :

Belfast

Close Date :

14-Nov-2025