Lecturer in Landscape Architecture

Overview

Lecturer in Landscape Architecture role at Birmingham City University. The position is full-time and permanent within the Birmingham School of Architecture & Design.

The full-time starting salary is normally £44,131.00 per annum, with progression to £51,182.00 per annum.

Grade: G

Full Time, Permanent

Birmingham School of Architecture & Design at Birmingham City University is a creative, diverse and interdisciplinary community of students, staff and practitioners exploring sustainable and inclusive design with our city, region and beyond. We believe design has the power to create transformational change. Through our teaching, research, and strong connections to industry we empower our students to create ideas and actions to radically change the way we live, now and into the future.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the teaching, learning and coordination of the School’s Landscape Architecture programmes across different levels of the postgraduate courses.
• Ensure an excellent student experience through the use of relevant and inspiring learning, teaching, and assessment methods.
• Assist with cross School teaching and learning activities such as the CO.LAB live project module, the Experimental Sustainability Studio, Parity Platform and/or Superstudio.
• Providing support and mentoring to individual students through personal tutoring.
• Recruitment and Outreach activities
• Contributing to the Urban Cultures or Critical Artistic Thinking in Design (CATiD) research clusters.
• Occasionally contribute to teaching on our partner TNE programmes.
• Other duties may include course administration, module leadership, curriculum development, PSRB liaison and leading student trips.

Qualifications

You will hold a PhD in a relevant area (or have taken their viva voce) or demonstrate equivalent core knowledge and expertise gained from leading edge practice in industry, have qualifications in Landscape Architecture or closely aligned sustainable design degree to at least Masters level, have experience of teaching and assessing student work at undergraduate level, have published or presented their writing and research publicly, excellent and demonstrable design and communication skills, collaborative and team working skills, an inter- or trans-disciplinary approach is desirable given the range of disciplines in the School, climate literacy and knowledge of sustainable and ecological design and the ability to contribute to other areas of the curriculum.

It would be desirable if you had an understanding of the nature of contemporary practice, capability to contribute to other areas such as technical studies, history, theory and cultural contexts, and/or digital representation would also be welcomed, hold a PGCertHE teaching qualification or be accredited via the UK Professional Standards Framework for Higher Education and have experience in developing research funding proposals.

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