Lecturer In Fashion Product Design

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a fashion design and development specialist to play a key role contributing to the undergraduate Fashion Design & Development course at London College of Fashion. You will have a variety of responsibilities, such as undertaking teaching, unit management, curriculum development and research in Fashion Product Design and development.

This will include delivering workshops, lectures, 1-1 tutorials and practical demonstrations on the process for creative and innovative design, as well as industry level analysis from micro and macro perspectives, sustainable manufacturing solutions and systems thinking.

We want our students to rethink current industry practices and with your experience and guidance you will provide them with the skills, opportunities and freedom to put those ideas into practice.

About you

Key to this post will be your ability to actively contribute to the organisation and management of the course, student experience and pastoral care. You will also need to be able to lead on design and flat, and 3D pattern and garment development techniques, in addition to giving on-going tutorial support, constructive guidance and feedback.

Teaching and learning experience and/or equivalent industry experience in Fashion design and product development is also essential, preferably covering womenswear and menswear.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 23:55, 27^th June 2024.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the Recruiting Manager David Hopwood on d.hopwood@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact the Resourcing Team at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.