Lecturer in Creative Writing

The University of Salford takes pride in its local roots, while also being recognized for its excellence in teaching, research and enterprise activity regionally, nationally and internationally. We sit at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse and actively engage with stakeholders across the region and beyond to embed our industry collaboration activity in the curriculum, ensuring our students receive the best possible experience and are fit for their future after graduation.

The School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology is a leading centre for practice-based education in the creative disciplines. Through significant investment in our staff and facilities, we are strengthening our position as a centre of excellence for socially engaged teaching practice and research whose graduates are sought after as content creators and for the innovative application of creative technology, both in the creative industries and across wider sectors of the economy. We have a clear vision to become a top quartile provider of practice-based education in the creative industries, continuing to advance our standing as a destination of choice for students in the UK and internationally.

Our £55 million New Adelphi flagship building offers top-quality specialist equipment and facilities to suit all creative requirements. We are also the only UK university to have a campus at MediaCityUK, an international media hub next to prestigious media organisations such as the BBC, ITV, and Dock10, with industry-standard facilities that offer a professional environment for our staff and students. The School’s activities are organised into four Directorates, currently totalling around 4,800 students: Art and Design; Creative Technology, Journalism, Politics and Contemporary History; Film and Broadcast Media; and Performance, Music, English and Dance.

Creative Writing is a high-performing subject area in the school and the appointment of a Lecturer in Creative Writing will enable us to maintain and strengthen this position. The successful candidate will be expected to have a specialism in Prose Fiction and/or Creative Non-Fiction, including, but not limited to, the mediums of the novel, short story, essay, biography and experimental writing. Experimental writing is a strength of our postgraduate provision, and a strong candidate will ideally have an interest in this area of practice.

Depending on your research area and experience, you may be asked to teach and supervise postgraduate students, including in the development of their academic writing skills, and to develop further module provision at postgraduate level. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our submission to the next Research Excellence Framework exercise; knowledge of research funding and experience in attracting funding from diverse sources would also be an advantage.

This is a part-time, permanent position and the starting salary is of £42,149 per annum (pro rata).

We are delighted that you are interested in finding out more about our current vacancies for 25 exciting new roles in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology:

• Creative Technical Demonstrator in Animation
• Creative Technical Demonstrator in Editing
• Creative Technical Demonstrator in Film Production
• Lecturer in Animation
• Lecturer in Digital Media and XR
• Lecturer in Digital Video Production and Management
• Lecturer in Film Production
• Lecturer in Games and XR Design and Development
• Lecturer in International History
• Lecturer in Journalism
• Lecturer in Musicology
• Lecturer in Performance (0.6 FTE)
• Lecturer in Photography
• Lecturer in Post Production and VFX
• Lecturer in Production Management
• Lecturer in Television Studies
• Lecturer in TV Production (Unscripted and Factual) (0.6 FTE)
• Senior Lecturer in Technical Theatre and Creative Technology
• Teaching Fellow in Costume Design (0.6 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Fashion Business and Promotion (0.8 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Fashion Image Making and Styling (0.8 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Film, TV and Stage Design (0.4 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Film, TV and Stage Design (0.4 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Music Management (0.5 FTE)
• Teaching Fellow in Music Management (0.5 FTE)
• Lecturer in Creative Writing (0.5 FTE)

We are committed to promoting a truly diverse and inclusive community, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible and agile working arrangements, staff engagement forums, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. Our student population is already incredibly diverse and we want to ensure that this is reflected across our colleague profile as well. We particularly encourage applications from women and individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds, who are currently under-represented within these areas. We also operate a guaranteed interview scheme for job applicants who declare they have a disability and meet the essential criteria of the job they are applying for.

There is a varied benefits package available through ‘My Salford’ where you can tailor your benefits to suit your own lifestyle – everything from additional annual leave, savings on High Street shopping, travel discounts as well as health and wellbeing support. However you identify, whatever your pathway has been to get here, come and join us at the University of Salford where we are all proud to belong!