Associate Lecturer in Interaction Design (Education Focused)

• Full-time, 1 year fixed-term

• Contribute to teaching and research in Design at The School of Architecture, Design and Planning

• Education Focused Level A - Base Salary $105,350 p.a. + 17% superannuation 

About the opportunity

The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning is an internationally acknowledged centre for intellectual, scientific, and creative research, and attract the highest quality scholars in Australia. The School of Architecture, Design and Planning is committed to a sustainable future for Sydney and the world. Creatively combining the disciplines of Architecture, Urbanism and Design, we explore how cities, spaces, buildings, technologies, and services can better meet the needs of people and society. Our educators and researchers are experimental, imaginative, and critical, innovating at the boundaries of their disciplines and creating exciting and engaging learning experiences for our students – the global citizens of tomorrow.

The discipline of design is rapidly growing and highly successful within the school. Our research explores and contributes to better futures: we envision, define, and inform the interactions between people, technologies, organisations, and society. Pushing the boundaries of pedagogical practice in interaction and innovation, we encourage our students to critically rethink and prototype new objects, systems, experiences, and materials that shape human experience and life on the planet through the lens of design. To address these huge and critical problems, our design staff come from all kinds of backgrounds, including mathematics, psychology, musical composition, community activism, and robotics. Recognising that design cannot happen in isolation, we actively collaborate across disciplines and with external partners, including industry, not-for-profit, government and community groups and organisations.

Education-focused roles are a specialised category of academic engagement reserved for talented educators with a passion for, and demonstrated excellence in, pedagogical practice and design. The successful candidate will dedicate the majority (up to 70%) of their academic workload allocation to education and educational development. We also highly value recognised expertise in higher education pedagogy, or the willingness to undertake additional development through for example completion of the Graduate Certificate in Education Studies (Higher Education) or comparable recognition (e.g. obtaining FHEA status).

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• in collaboration with program directors and unit coordinators, ensure measurable and sustained improvements in student experience and satisfaction

• deliver excellent teaching in core and elective units of study either leading casual academic teaching groups or teaching in studio yourself

• implement initiatives to enable consistent high quality of casual academic teaching as well as support casual academics’ satisfaction in teaching

• contribute to the evaluation of student experience and development of improved education delivery

• contribute to teaching and learning innovations including work-integrated learning.

About you

We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Interaction Design (education focused) who possesses:

• PhD in interaction design, human-computer interaction or cognate field

• sound experience of teaching and learning, and the ability to contribute to teaching at undergraduate, honours and postgraduate levels in lecture, tutorial and practical settings

• experience in contributing to outstanding educational design, delivery, evaluation and outcome

• a developing network of relationships with key academic, industry or professional institutions partners and stakeholders

• demonstrated experience in supervising or mentoring others and/or coordinating team activities

• a collegial approach and willingness to contribute to academic governance, engagement, and administration

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Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For a continuing position, you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident.
Australian Temporary Residents currently employed at the University of Sydney may be considered for a fixed term contract for the length of their visa, depending on the requirements of the hiring area and the reasons for the position.
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Monday 03 June 2024 11:59 PM