Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Creative Industries at University of Birmingham

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2026 

Role summary

As a full-time Teaching Fellow in Digital Media and Creative Industries, the post holder will be expected to undertake up to 14 hours of timetabled teaching per week at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The post holder will also undertake personal tutoring and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate taught dissertations. The post will include organisation, management and leadership duties. The successful candidate will have considerable relevant teaching and assessment experience in communication rooted in a humanities background and be committed to providing an excellent student learning experience. 

The Teaching Fellow will contribute to teaching in the following areas: 

• Marketing practices and digital content creation (such as social media campaigns)
• Business discourse for the creative industries
• Legal practices as they relate to the creative industries, such as copyright and IP

The global dimension of the creative industries, especially the Global South. The post is fixed-term, for one year from 1^st September 2025 until 31^st August 2026 due to the non-current funding stream.

Main Duties

• Teach modules at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduate and postgraduate students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
• Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
• Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining. 
• Frequently update own subject expertise.
• Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes. 
• Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.

Person Specification

• A PhD in a field related to digital media and the creative industries
• Experience of teaching students and co-ordinating modules in the following areas:
  marketing practices and digital content creation (such as social media campaigns)
• business discourse for the creative industries
• legal practices as they relate to the creative industries, such as copyright and IP
• The global dimension of the creative industries, especially the Global South. Experience of marking and co-ordinating the assessment of student work in the areas outlined in the summary section above
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to design and deliver module materials successfully
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively

Informal enquiries to Emily Cotgrave, email: e.cotgrave@bham.ac.uk 

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