Senior Lecturer in Design, Specialising in Design as Change Making, artistic basis

Job Summary

The Department of Design is located in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, which is one of Linnaeus University’s five faculties. The faculty offers a dynamic, flexible and international learning environment with both scientific and artistic activities in a wide range of fields. We build complete academic environments in which the interplay between education, research and collaboration acts as a catalyst for quality improvements at the university and sustainable development in society at large.

Duties

Your main duty will be to use teaching and research as tools to develop students’ and colleagues’ understanding of design practices and their impact on peoples’ living conditions in line with the department’s focus on sustainability, curiosity and design as catalysts for change. Competence and practical experience of research and work in the field of contemporary design as change making is considered a particular merit, including an engagement with relevant critical and theoretical frameworks in the broad remit of sustainability, norm-criticism and the ability to work across practice and theory.

As an employee you will follow and support the development of design practices and associated disciplines such as design history and theory, with special emphasis on sustainability and social engagement. Experience of working in trans- and interdisciplinary frameworks is considered of particular importance. You will also actively participate in the Department of Design’s internal and external work.

Your main duty will be to conduct education in design on under- and postgraduate levels and to act as programme coordinator with responsibility for a specific programme. Another of your duties as an employee is to participate in the overall development of all of the department’s design programmes.

Qualifications

To be eligible for the position of Senior Lecturer in an artistic field, you must have demonstrated pedagogical proficiency. You must also have obtained a PhD in the arts, demonstrated artistic ability or have some other professional competence of relevance, taking into account the subject content of the position and the duties which it will include (Higher Education Ordinance, Chapter 4, Section 4).

In accordance with Linnaeus University’s employment regulations, “pedagogical proficiency” refers to the planning, conducting and evaluation of teaching, as well as supervision and examination.

Artistic ability must have been demonstrated via a documented high level of artistic and professional competence, and must show a critically reflective approach to professional practice including a familiarity with relevant critical and theoretical frameworks.

To be qualified for this position, the applicant must also have a well-developed ability to cooperate and a proficiency to utilise an understanding of the synergies between theory and practice in teaching, research and other work.

The Department’s programmes are in English, meaning that an ability to and experience of communicating in English, orally and in writing, is required.