Lecturer in Music

Job id: 087607. Salary: £43,205 per annum including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 10 April 2024. Closing date: 28 April 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Department: Music.

Contact details:Katherine Schofield. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Category: Academic & Teaching.

The Department of Music seeks to hire a Lecturer (Grade 6, spine point 31) specialising in the field of music history c. 1850–1950. The post holder will contribute to the research profile of the Department, while also engaging in research-led teaching, departmental administration, and pastoral support across our BMus and MMus degrees.   

We seek applicants who have a clear track record appropriate to their career stage as emerging global research leaders in music history, and who will contribute to our goals of delivering innovative, inclusive, diverse, and socially-engaged education.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in music, history, or a related humanities discipline, and publications appropriate to their career stage. They must be capable of delivering the following modules:

• Level 4 Issues & Topics (19C Music, half module)
• Level 4 Writing About Music
• Level 5 Popular Music Studies
• Level 6/7 Topics in Music Research: 19C Music
• Level 7 Approaches to Music Research 2

They will be a highly effective educator, with demonstrable experience of teaching and assessment in Higher Education, strong evidence of commitment to student welfare, and an aptitude for working within an interdisciplinary and inclusive framework.

The post holder will also be required to take on the role of Departmental Senior Tutor, and deputise for the Department Education Lead as and when requested.

We particularly encourage applications from members of groups with protected characteristics that have been marginalised on any grounds enumerated under the Equality Act. 

In applying for this role please include a covering letter (no longer than two A4 sides) clearly indicating how you meet the essential and desirable criteria below, and an up-to-date CV. Applicants are asked to include, as a separate document to their covering letter, a short statement (no longer than 1/3 an A4 page) describing their past/current experience of supporting student welfare and equality, diversity & inclusion in the higher education context. 

This post will be offered on  a fixed-term contract for 13 months 

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent, due to commence 1st September 2024.

• Plan, organise and deliver outstanding teaching and assessment across our Programmes. 
• Contribute to enhancing the research profile of the Department, Faculty and College through publications and other forms of output, which may include public-facing impact activities.
• Provide high quality supervision of BMus and MMus dissertations, as required.
• Assess coursework and examinations, including performance recitals.
• Take oversight of the welfare of students in the department as Senior Tutor, and organise the personal tutor system.
• Fulfil other administrative tasks as directed by the Head of Department.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Essential criteria  

Desirable criteria

For further information on the post, please contact the Head of Department, Dr Katherine Schofield, [email protected].