Overview
Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Communications/Digital Creative Practice – School of Engli Jobs in Birmingham, UK at University of Birmingham
Position: Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Communications/Digital Creative Practice – School of Engli[…]
School of English, Drama and Creative Studies
Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2027
Job Description Background
The Department of Linguistics and Communication is a world-leading centre of excellence for both teaching and research with students based in Birmingham as well as in over thirty different countries. It forms a central part of the School of English, Drama, Creative Studies, within the College of Arts and Law. The Department has an excellent track record in teaching and an active research culture with productive collaboration within and beyond the University, and wide-ranging public engagement.
Staff in the department research and teach across a wide range of Linguistics and Communication topics, including New Media, English Language Teaching, Media Literacy, Journalism, Gaming, Political Communication, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Cognitive Linguistics,
The School
The School of English, Drama and Creative Studies is a vibrant and thriving school situated within the College of Arts and Law. It hosts a community of academics and students researching and learning together in areas including Linguistics, Media and Communication, Film Studies, English Literature, Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre Arts. Many of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes combine academic scholarship with creative practice and offer students opportunities to learn from industry experts and partners in the Creative Industries.
One of the School’s strengths includes the study of Shakespeare both on the Edgbaston Campus and at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. EDACS encourages inter-disciplinarity and intellectual collaboration both in teaching and research.
Role Summary
As a full-time Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Communications/Digital Creative Practice, the post holder will be expected to undertake up to 14 hours of timetabled teaching per week on our very successful suite of established undergraduate and postgraduate digital media & communications programmes. The post holder will also undertake personal tutoring and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate taught dissertations and organisation, management and leadership duties.
- Teaching within own subject area within an established teaching programme
- The successful candidate will be committed to providing an excellent student learning experience and be able to demonstrate:
- Experience of teaching and assessing students in App-based audio-visual production and editing using software such as Adobe Express, Canva and Dolby On;
- Experience of teaching and assessing students on the theory and practice of digital media;
- Experience of supporting students with creative projects in the classroom and in one-to-one supervisions;
- Experience of teaching on team taught modules.
Main Duties
- Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
- Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
- Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
- Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
- Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
- Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor.)
- Frequently update own subject expertise.
- Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning…
Title: Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Communications/Digital Creative Practice – School of Engli
Company: University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham, UK
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