Lectureship in Urban Design

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

The Role

Newcastle University is home to one of the UK's most successful and longest-established schools of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Approaching its centenary in 2022, design graduates include, for example, Alison and Peter Smithson, Terry Farrell, the Matrix feminist cooperative, and Jo Noero. The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape is undergoing a period of sustained and significant investment in staff appointments and School infrastructure. A recent substantial new workshop and new studio spaces are soon to be supplemented by a public urban room and architecture centre, ‘The Farrell Centre', and the world's first experimental biological house, ‘The OME'. The design research culture in Newcastle is spirited and energetic, encompassing for example: award-winning student ‘live' design and build projects; a PhD by Creative Practice programme which has one of the largest cohorts in the UK; and a design research consultancy, Design Office, included in 2020's Architect's Journal ‘40 Under 40' listing of ‘the UK's most exciting emerging architectural talent'.

This research programme accompanies long-established undergraduate (BA) and graduate studio courses (MA Urban Design; MArch; MA Advanced Architectural Design; Master of Landscape Architecture; MA in Landscape Architecture Studies), programmes in Planning (BA, MPlan, MSc) and interdisciplinary undergraduate (BA) programmes in Architecture & Urban Planning and Geography & Planning. Studio work is diverse and speculative, yet grounded, and the quality of student work has been recognised in many recent awards. The School consistently attracts students of the best calibre from around the world.

You will contribute to teaching on programmes in Urban Design and develop their own area of scholarship. It is essential that the successful applicant can demonstrate excellence in design teaching and can contribute to developing and enhancing the School's reputation in this area. The successful applicant will be expected to lead and deliver design studios and modules and make a substantial contribution to teaching in other curriculum areas such as urban design history and theory, urban studies, ecology and climate literacy, digital representation and/or manufacturing, materials and detailing, or professional practice and ethics.

This role is part time at 18.5 hours per week.

For informal queries, please contact:

Dr. Zan Gunn, Director of Planning - [email protected]

Dr. Paola Gazzola, Head of School - [email protected]