Teaching Fellow in Photography

The School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology is a leading centre for practice-based education in the creative disciplines. Through significant investment in our staff and facilities, we are strengthening our position as a centre of excellence for socially engaged teaching practice and research whose graduates are sought after as content creators and for the innovative application of creative technology, both in the creative industries and across wider sectors of the economy. We have a clear vision to become a top quartile provider of practice-based education in the creative industries, continuing to advance our standing as a destination of choice for students in the UK and internationally.

Our £55 million New Adelphi flagship building offers top-quality specialist equipment and facilities to suit all creative requirements. We are also the only UK university to have a campus at MediaCityUK, an international media hub next to prestigious media organisations such as the BBC, ITV, and Dock10, with industry-standard facilities that offer a professional environment for our staff and students. The School's activities are organised into four Directorates, currently totalling around 4,800 students: Art and Design; Creative Technology, Journalism, Politics and Contemporary History; Film and Broadcast Media; and Performance, Music, English and Dance.

We are delighted that you are interested in finding out more about our current vacancy for the role of Teaching Fellow in Photography in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology.

BA (Hons) Photography at the University of Salford is a successful and growing programme. You will be an ambitious academic specialising in the subject with relevant industry expertise. You will have experience in commercial aspects of photography through work with industry or personal professional practice. You will be skilled in practical aspects of the medium to inform students in developing their awareness, knowledge and skills in relation to the potential of professional practice within the field of photography. The BA (Hons) Photography programme has productive relationships with industry providing students with essential professional opportunities. Within your role you will continue to enhance these relationships and form new opportunities throughout the region and beyond.

Our students are award winners with alumni contributing to the development of the subject nationally and internationally. The programme introduces students to technical and theoretical contexts of the subject through specialist theory tuition and excellent facilities both at our New Adelphi and MediaCityUK campuses. The programme is further informed by visiting practitioners, curators and commercial specialists providing talks, workshops, and portfolio reviews. We are committed to ensuring our graduates are prepared for professional contexts across a range of areas. The programme provides students with experience across both art, documentary, and commercial forms of photographic practice.

You will be expected to provide high levels of tuition to maintain standards across all levels of the programme. This is a full-time permanent position, and the starting salary is £34,304 per annum.

We are committed to promoting a truly diverse and inclusive community, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible and agile working arrangements, staff engagement forums, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. Our student population is already incredibly diverse and we want to ensure that this is reflected across our colleague profile as well. We particularly encourage applications from women and individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds. We also operate a guaranteed interview scheme for job applicants who declare they have a disability and meet the essential criteria of the job they are applying for.

There is a varied benefits package available through 'My Salford' where you can tailor your benefits to suit your own lifestyle - everything from additional annual leave, savings on High Street shopping, travel discounts as well as health and wellbeing support. However you identify, whatever your pathway has been to get here, come and join us at the University of Salford where we are all proud to belong! Within your cover letter/personal statement, please address how you meet the criteria listed in the person specification below.

Please note it is anticipated that interviews will take place shortly after the closing date of this advertisement. Informal enquires about this role can be made to: Paul Vivian, Director of Art and Design (p.f.vivian@salford.ac.uk).

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