Lecturer in Fashion Curation and Storytelling in London

Salary £40,770 - £45,300

Location: Cromwell Road, London

This is a Fixed Term Contract, Full Time vacancy that will close in 20 days at 23:59 GMT.

The Role

MA Fashion Storytelling is a new collaboration between the V&A and London College of Fashion (LCF), creating an MA degree that focuses on the history, theory and curation of fashion. The course will welcome its first cohort of students in September 2026. With specialist teaching and sustained access to the V&A collections, this course will provide an intellectual framework to consider the active role played by museum professionals, researchers, and audiences in the shaping of fashion narratives.

The Lecturer in Fashion Curation and Storytelling will play an active role in the design and delivery of MA Fashion Storytelling, and will lead the V&A's teaching and assessment contributions to the course. They will organise V&A contributions to the course, with a particular focus on two modules 'Curating Fashion Research' and 'Curation in Practice', brokering support from different specialists across the V&A's family of sites. The Lecturer will support the Head of Academic Partnerships in ensuring V&A compliance with the academic regulations of our partner institution and work to maintain a high standard of student satisfaction.

The Lecturer in Fashion Curation and Storytelling will contribute to the V&A's wider research culture and strategic priorities through their own innovative research and by contributing to research project development, programming and/or other emerging opportunities.

The V&A is the world's leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

Our Mission Is To Be Recognised As The World's Leading Museum Of Art, Design And Performance, And To Enrich People's Lives By Promoting Research, Knowledge And Enjoyment Of The Designed World To The Widest Possible Audience. We Strive To Make The V&A Matter To More People And In That Context We Work To The Following Six Strategic Objectives:

• To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
• Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
• Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
• To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
• Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
• Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

The Benefits:

• Generous pension scheme
• 29 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working
• Tickets to V&A exhibitions
• Subsidised staff canteen
• 25% discount in V&A shops
• Give as you earn scheme
• Bicycle loan
• Interest-free season ticket
• Interest-free rental deposit loan
• Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
• Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme

ED&I at The V&A

At The V&A, We Are Committed To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion (EDI) For All And Strive To Go Above And Beyond Public Duty Placed Upon Us By The Equality Act 2010. As Such, We Are Delighted To Share That We Are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A Makes The Following Commitments To All Applications:

• The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
• Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
• Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
• Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.