Unit Leader MA Photography and Digital Practice (Online)

We are looking for an experienced academic to develop teaching and learning materials for a unit of a new fully online MA in Photography and Digital Practices. The post is for 2 days per week over 8.5 months, beginning at the start of March 2026. You will work in collaboration with the Course Leader to bring your knowledge and practice in photography to this new, fully online, creative and future-facing course for a new global audience of learners.

You’ll work with Learning Designers and the specialist UAL Online production team to create flexible, inclusive and inspiring learning. Your teaching will nurture experimentation, engagement with digital tools and methods and support students to develop individual contemporary digital practices.

About you

You will have specialist teaching experience in image-based creative practice, with a demonstrable background in teaching photography and ideally other forms of digital image-making. You will also bring extensive conceptual and practical experience of emerging imaging technologies—such as 3D imaging, CGI, generative AI, or related digital photographic processes—alongside an understanding of how these technologies are experienced by users and audiences, and an ability to critically think with them as part of current and emerging photographic practice.

You’ll have strong teamworking and collaborative skills and be willing to use Miro and shared documents. You’ll be ready to work with project managers, learning designers and others in a mixed discipline team working to tight deadlines. You will bring diverse perspectives and industry voices into the new course curriculum and will draw on your teaching experience to support a globally dispersed cohort of fully online learners to develop their individual digital and photographic practices.

You don’t need extensive experience of online teaching and learning, but you do need to be open to the advantages of flexible, fully online delivery to widen access to Higher Education.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

Closing date: 18th January 2026, 23:55.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser, lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk

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UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn, with 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.