Professor in Anti/Post/Decolonial Theories and Praxes

The opportunity

UAL Decolonising Arts Institute (DeAI) is looking for an experienced Professor to play a pivotal role in developing, driving, co-leading and delivering our interdisciplinary creative research agenda. 

The Institute is a collaborative and inter/multi/un-disciplinary space. We welcome colleagues who can bring a range of disciplinary expertise or an unorthodox disciplinary trajectory to the imaginative reconstruction of creative research.

Following DeAI’s pilot development phase (2018-21) and subsequent period of activity focused on major externally funded projects (2021-24), the Institute is now looking forward to a third phase of collaborative development and sustainable growth, moving to a shared leadership model and aspiring towards cross-institutional impact.

You’ll deliver an interdisciplinary and integrated research programme for the Institute, securing major grants, and establishing new partnerships and collaborations of strategic importance. You’ll contribute to activities aligned with DeAI’s aims to:

• Embed decoloniality and global justice into creative research and pedagogy
• Challenge formations of knowledge and power
• Grow local and global communities of interdisciplinary creative practice research
• Evolve structures and processes to ensure sustainability, including a decentralised shared leadership model that enriches the vision and scope of our work and networks

Within UAL, Professors are required to exemplify academic leadership and have a strategic role in the development of the University’s research. You’ll develop your research and practice within the research aims and remit of UAL, through work related to the discourses, modalities and ecologies of anticolonial, postcolonial and decolonial histories and praxes across arts and cultures in UK and global contexts.

You’ll develop and lead research projects and will significantly contribute to the academic research profile and activities of the University. You’ll take a leading role in your appointed areas of research and evidence involvement at a senior level with relevant professional bodies or learned societies. You’ll also plan and initiate the writing of external funding bids as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator and have a record of acquiring significant external funding. Professors are also expected to act as Directors of Study and/or supervisors to research degree students.

About you

You will possess a track record of internationally excellent interdisciplinary research in a relevant field/fields, as well as significant experience of research-informed teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. You'll also have overseen PhD completions as a Director of Studies or equivalent.

You'll be adept at large-scale grant capture, pairing this with experience of developing and delivering significant strategic external collaborative projects either nationally or internationally.

You have excellent communication, organisation and academic leadership skills, and substantial experience of working with others, including leading projects, teams, and developing more junior colleagues.

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Closing date: 23:55, 26th June 2024.

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