Lecturer in Creative and Critical Practice

Lecturer in Creative and Critical Practice

Faculty of Design, Informatics and Business

Full-Time, Permanent (flexible working options available)

Grade 7/8 (£38,784.49 - £56,535.57)

The Faculty of Design, Informatics and Business at Abertay University in Dundee seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Creative and Critical Practice. This new opportunity has arisen from our expanding international partnerships and significant investment in research and knowledge exchange. 

The Faculty of Design, Informatics and Business consists of four Departments: Games and Arts, Game Technology and Mathematics, Cybersecurity, and Dundee Business School. Abertay was the first university to offer degrees in Computer Games and Ethical Hacking, and continues to be recognised as an international leader in its fields. The Faculty is designated the National Centre of Excellence in Computer Games Education, and has pioneered integrated cross-disciplinary practice-based learning through its ‘workplace simulation’ approach to teaching and learning. Additionally, the University has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (Gold Award) by the National Cyber Security Centre.  

Academic staff in the Department of Games and Arts have pursued research on a diverse range of themes, including applied games, interactive design in the performing arts, experimental game jams, and game aesthetics. Reporting to the Head of Department, you will provide high-quality, research-informed teaching across all of our creative programmes, with a particular focus on delivering specialist content within our Computer Arts and Game Design and Production degrees, and conduct research in your field that contributes to Abertay's strategic interests within the creative industries and digital arts.

We are particularly keen to attract applications from creative practitioners with experience in teaching and research, possessing expertise across more than one of these areas: 

• Teaching aesthetic, media, and critical theory ideally in the context of creative practice.
• Situating informed critical practice within the context of state of the art industry developments and emerging technologies.
• Understanding of the need to reconcile theory with technical practices and applied production workflows in fields such as game design and computer arts.
• Awareness of practice based and practice led methodologies, and the critical role of practice in creative investigation and analysis.
• Track record in published research and/ or exhibition of practice research.

The Faculty is dedicated to providing a diverse, supportive and inclusive environment for all to reach their full potential. The Faculty’s staff share workspaces regardless of specialism, to encourage collaboration and creative working between complementary disciplines, and create a genuinely multi-disciplinary environment. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to propose and undertake creative projects within the Emergent Technology Centre. Launched in 2019, this facility comprises a series of interconnected specialist labs and studios dedicated to research in games development, visual design, usability, and XR and immersive experiences. 

If you believe you have the skills and experience for this exciting and challenging role, please submit your application through our online recruitment system.

Please note that we will only accept applications through our online recruitment system.

Committed to Equal Opportunities

The University of Abertay Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity,

No: SC016040