Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Publishing

Humanities

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The College of Arts, Humanities & Education is a diverse community of scholars dedicated to education, employability and civic and cultural enrichment.  At its heart, and in all it does, the College specialises in providing critical knowledge, understanding and reasoning, promoting social utility, serving as the gadfly to the polis, fostering happiness as a core psychological well-being and enabling intrinsic intellectual philosophical and cultural uplift.

The largest College within the University, it is composed of the Institute of Education, the School of Arts and the School of Humanities & Journalism.   Through its wide-ranging programmes in Initial Teacher Education, Childhood, Education and Inclusion, which place the Institute in the Top 20 of the 2019 Guardian University Guide, the Institute of Education leads innovative applied academic and professional practice in Education within the country.Similarly, many of the degree programmes within the School of Arts’ comprehensive Creative Arts programme portfolio are placed in the Guardian University Guide’s Top 20.  Bold, imaginative and different: the School of Arts through creative disruption, risk taking and experimentation in creative practice ignites creativity and fuels inventiveness.   Such intellectual ingenuity is integral to the globally aware and forward focused School of Humanities & Journalism.  Offering a programme portfolio in the traditional humanities disciplines alongside industry-focused programmes in Publishing and Journalism, the School of Humanities & Journalism, engages with the world as it is today, and will be in the future, equipping its students with intellectual agility, transferable skills, real-world experience and the confidence that they will need for the decades to come.  

We are currently seeking to make an appointment in Publishing, at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, to contribute to a range of activities in the discipline area. The successful applicant will contribute to teaching and lecturing at all levels of HE provision, as appropriate, from Foundation Year to Level 7 Postgraduate. Where possible, the applicant will also be qualified and able to supervise PGR students in Publishing and cognate disciplines.

Our BA Writing and Publishing and our MA Publishing are programmes that are up-to-date, well balanced, thought-provoking and exciting. They cover all industry sectors, from fiction to scholarly, and all job roles from editorial to author rights. They aim to encourage students to explore all aspects of the publishing industry, including editorial and content development, design and production, sales and marketing, legal frameworks, and business success and entrepreneurship. The Publishing provision at the University of Derby covers both print and digital books and magazines.

The academic team seeks to work closely with industry, not only to build work-experience opportunities for our students but to develop Knowledge Exchange and collaborative research opportunities. The team also work closely and in an inter-disciplinary way with colleagues in areas such as Creative Writing, the School of Arts, Journalism and the Business School.

The discipline area is seeking to grow and expand its reach, with new programmes of study and new areas of activity being explored, meaning that this is an exciting time to join this dynamic academic team.

Experience within the publishing industry, either in the UK or internationally, is welcomed, as is an academic or research background in a relevant Humanities, Digital Humanities, or Business discipline.

The successful candidate will have the ability to deliver engaging and innovate teaching as part of a programme team, and will also help to develop a strong research and industry engagement profile for the area.

Experience of HE administration, programme leadership, and curriculum development are sought for successful applicants at Senior Lecturer level.

For informal enquires about the role, please contact Dr Tom Neuhaus at t.neuhaus@derby.ac.uk .

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

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