Senior Lecturer/Course Leader BA (Hons) Costume Design & Construction at Nottingham Trent University

About the Role

Our Costume Design & Construction BA (Hons) course sits within the Design for Performance subject area, which is part of the Design & Digital Arts Department within the Nottingham School of Art and Design. The course benefits from an excellent reputation and recruit’s high calibre students with strong creative and academic abilities and is designed to develop these talents to ensure that our graduates leave us with unique combinations of knowledge, skills and attributes that are aligned to the creative industries of the future.

As our newest Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, you will provide academic leadership for the course, ensuring that it reflects University and School policy, practice and processes. You will ensure the effective management and delivery of the course and be responsible for providing academic leadership to the course, addressing issues related to course quality, student satisfaction, progress, and retention. You will be required to liaise and work effectively with the course team to deliver a dynamic and exciting curriculum, ensuring the quality and currency of the course and student experience. You will take an active role in shaping and enhancing course design and future curriculum development and will work in partnership with the Principal Lecturer in the subject area to deliver the strategic aims and ambitions of the course and department. You will contribute to a range of modules across the subject area and will be able to offer the required knowledge and attributes as detailed in the attached person specification in one or more of the following areas:

• Contemporary costume design practice from traditional through to emerging technological approaches.
• Theoretical knowledge to underpin the practice of costume design & construction.
• Industry knowledge of the costume design sector – film, tv and/or live performance.
• Sustainability practices within the sector.

You will have an excellent understanding of the subject area as well as knowledge of contextual research and current professional practice within the Costume Design field, and will possess both academic and industry experience within the subject area.   

For more details, please take a look at the role profile.  We’ll still consider applications even if you don’t meet every single one of the requirements, so don’t be put off if you don’t match them perfectly.

About Us

Nottingham School of Art & Design is one of the world’s leading art and design schools; we have been influencing, inspiring and innovating for over 175 years. Constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, we’re a diverse community of artists, designers, and creatives at the heart of one of the UK’s most innovative cities.

Catalysts of change and new thinking, we nurture the best creative and digital talent. We give our students the freedom to take risks and express their creativity and individuality. We carry out bold, original and daring research. We believe in the power of connectivity, collaborating with creative minds around the globe and working with the creative sector to develop highly employable graduates. We bring different disciplines together to inspire our students to think beyond their passion and make a bigger impact, from sustainability to enterprise and social justice.

For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact Claire Lockwood (Head of Department DDA) at claire.lockwood@ntu.ac.uk