"Lecturer in Interaction Design (Education Focused)"

• Full time, fixed term until 30 June 2029, located on the Camperdown Campus
• Contribute to teaching in Design at The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
• Base Salary Level B $127,436 p.a. - $151,328 p.a. + 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning is an internationally acknowledged centre for intellectual, scientific, and creative research, and attract the highest quality scholars in Australia. Creatively combining the disciplines of Architecture, Urbanism and Design, we explore how cities, spaces, buildings, technologies, and services can better meet the needs of people and society. Our educators and researchers are experimental, imaginative, and critical, innovating at the boundaries of their disciplines and creating exciting and engaging learning experiences for our students – the global citizens of tomorrow.

The Discipline of Design is rapidly growing and highly successful within the school. Our research explores and contributes to better futures: we envision, define, and inform the interactions between people, technologies, organisations, and society. Pushing the boundaries of pedagogical practice in interaction and innovation, we encourage our students to critically rethink and prototype new objects, systems, experiences, and materials that shape human experience and life on the planet through the lens of design. To address these huge and critical problems, our design staff come from all kinds of backgrounds, including engineering, psychology, musical composition, digital media, social sciences, community activism, and robotics. Recognising that design cannot happen in isolation, we actively collaborate across disciplines and with external partners, including industry, not-for-profit, government and community groups and organisations.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• deliver excellent teaching in core and elective units of study either leading casual academic teaching groups or teaching in studio yourself
• in collaboration with program directors and unit coordinators, ensure measurable and sustained improvements in student experience and satisfaction
• contribute to the evaluation of student experience and development of improved education delivery
• contribute to teaching and learning innovations including work-integrated learning.

About you

We are seeking an education‑focused candidate who understands the principles and pedagogy of effective curriculum and assessment design, and who will make a significant contribution to enhancing the student experience at the University. The successful candidate will demonstrate an understanding of, or a willingness to develop expertise in, research‑informed approaches to teaching and learning design, delivery, and evaluation. We are therefore looking for a Lecturer in Interaction Design (Education Focused) who has:

• a PhD, or nearly completion, in interaction design, human-computer interaction or cognate field, or equivalent professional experience in emerging technologies
• sound experience of teaching and learning in immersive technologies, UI/UX design, information visualisation, web design, front-end/back-end web technologies, artificial intelligence and/or creative coding, and the ability to contribute to teaching at undergraduate, honours and postgraduate levels in lecture, tutorial and practical settings
• experience in contributing to outstanding educational design, delivery, evaluation and outcome
• a developing network of relationships with key academic, industry or professional institutions partners and stakeholders
• demonstrated experience in supervising or mentoring others and/or coordinating team activities.
• a collegial approach and willingness to contribute to academic governance, engagement, and administration.