Lecturer in Fine Art - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Newcastle University

Newcastle University
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Salary:
£38,474 to £43,155 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits.

We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.


Closing Date: 23 April 2023

The Role


Are you a contemporary artist working with an exciting practice with the drive and enthusiasm to teach at one of the UK's best art schools? If so, we'd love to hear from you.


You should have a strong profile of creative achievement commensurate with your career stage and dynamic plans for your development.

You should be an enthusiast for innovative and inclusive approaches to the teaching of Fine Art studio practice and be able to work with students working across a broad range of practices and at different levels.


As a member of our dynamic staff team you will: conduct research and practice that meets national standards of excellence be committed to excellent teaching at all levels of our BA and MFA programmes pursue external research funding attract research postgraduates from the UK and internationally and contribute to their supervision work as a key member of our fine art team, taking on your share of academic roles within the department.

This appointment is a 0.5fte teaching and research post with an anticipated start date of September 2023.

The University has developed an Academic Job Summary Guidance document which summarises the range of activities that academic colleagues may be expected to perform.

Further information about Fine Art, our taught programmes and our research, can be found here.

Fine Art at Newcastle

Fine Art at Newcastle is ranked as one of the best Fine Art Schools in the UK in all the major league tables and in the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2021).

We are a community of staff and students who are artists, curators and art historians.

Collectively, our research and practice contribute to a vibrant creative culture and discourse both within the University and in the wide art ecology.

This is the foundation for our excellent research-led teaching & studentship. We encourage risk taking, imagination and work that challenges creative orthodoxies.

We want our community to make its mark both in the contemporary art world and in wider society and we are committed to engaging a wide public with our work.

Our Fine Art BA is a four-year studio-based programme that encourages creativity, autonomy, and experimentation. Studio staff teach and conduct world-leading research across the visual arts ( Fine Art Research at Newcastle ).

Students are encouraged to decide to develop their own productive relationship between studio practice and historical, curatorial and contextual studies.

Professional practice modules, LifeWorkArt, are woven into the undergraduate programme, enabling students to engage directly with the creative eco-system of the region.

The department is base for around 240 undergraduate, 16 postgraduate (MFA) students and 25 PhD students. Fine Art is part of the School of Arts and Cultures

Key Accountabilities
Contribute to the delivery and development of studio-based modules on the four year Fine Art BA undergraduate course and the two year MFA course
Maintain an active profile and dynamic trajectory of research, engagement and creative impact
Contribute to leadership and academic duties involved with the successful running of the Fine Art degree programmes
Work towards joint supervision of practice-based doctoral research projects

The Person (Essential)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Broad knowledge of Fine Art practice, processes and methods
Ability to respond positively to students working across a wide range of art practice
Excellent interpersonal skills, including those required for pastoral care of home and international students from a variety of academic and social backgrounds
A track record of practice-led creative research and an outstanding current trajectory commensurate with your career stage and inclusion in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF)
A track record in research / exhibiting at a national or international level
Desirable
Active participation in national networks
Specialist knowledge, through your practice, of film and/or video, performance or new technologies in the moving image.
Experience of teaching fine art within HE at undergraduate/postgraduate level
Experience of collaborative and interdisciplinary research

Attributes and Behaviour
Enthusiastic and inclusive approach to teaching visual art practice and a commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and widening participation
Commitment to cross-disciplinary and collaborative teaching
Commitment to working as part of a team
Commitment and capacity for contributing to Fine Art research, engagement and impact
Commitment to developing an academic career, including engaging with academic and leadership roles


Qualifications:

A good Honours degree
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