Job Description

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About The Role

With 120 years' creative arts experience, we are on a quest to offer the highest standards of teaching and professional facilities, as well as a vibrant creative community. With over 7,000 students, our portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and postgraduate research represents the breadth of the creative industries, from art, design and fashion, to games, music, film and business.



Our mission is to deliver exceptional higher education and research, harnessing the fusion of creativity and technology as foundations of the future economy. We use our knowledge and expertise in these disciplines to generate positive and sustainable opportunities for all.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and dynamic

Lecturers

in Interior Design and Interior Architecture with a future-focused approach, a healthy ambition and good energy to join our successful and well-respected course. The undergraduate courses are based at the Falmouth Campus, Cornwall, along with a series of other creative courses within the School of Architecture, Design and Interiors.

Our design studios are surrounded by a beautiful tropical garden with close access to the beach. The interiors course at Falmouth celebrates re-use, experiential design as well as interior atmosphere within the residential and commercial sectors. We have previously won graduate awards at the Interior Educators show and SBID, and have close links with industry, helping to facilitate live project briefs for our students.

The learning and teaching environment is on-campus delivery only.###

About You

The successful candidates for these roles will be qualified Interior Designers or a similar appropriate discipline who have worked in industry across various sectors and/or have academic experience and postgraduate qualifications. You will have experience in contributing to achieving excellent student learning and satisfaction, providing assessment and feedback and a dynamic approach to creating an active learning environment. You will need an excellent knowledge of technical resolution and material specification to run workshops with students in these areas. A wealth of industry experience and contacts will also help you to help build this area of subject specialism.

Ideally, you will have a working knowledge of industry-relevant software (such as Revit, AutoCAD and Rhino), emerging AI tools, and preferably, knowledge in VR and AR technologies. You will also need experience of teaching in the HE context. A knowledge of interior design and architecture history would also be a bonus. You will need to inspire the next generation of designers, manage studio projects and be involved in pastoral care as well as assessment.

There are two roles available:

Role 1: Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week
Role 2: Permanent, part time, 10.5 hours per week

Please state which position you are applying for at the start of your supporting statement.

For further details on the skills/experience required for this role, please see the full job description above.

If you are looking to have an informal discussion about the vacancy ahead of applying, please email recruitment@falmouth.ac.uk.

The closing date for the position is

Sunday 7 September 2025.

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About Us

There couldn't be a better time to work with us at Falmouth University. For more than a hundred years, we've been at the forefront of creativity and innovation. Building on that heritage, we're now harnessing the power of digital technology to ensure we're making an impact in the future economy. We are passionate about ideas and innovation. Our approach is rooted in collaboration and transdisciplinary working, believing that only together can we deliver the bold thinking that will solve the most complex issues of our time.



In return for you hard work and commitment, we offer excellent facilities and benefits, including:

Teachers' Pension Scheme

35 days + 8 days bank holiday.

Relocation Assistance to 10% of salary

Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay/Adoption Pay

Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)

Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme

Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme

Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.
Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.