"Lecturer - Smart and Digital Textile Design"

The Role

As a Lecturer in Smart and Digital Textiles for BA (Hons) Textile Design, you will work within a creative team who value textiles as an expansive and essential discipline, central to interdisciplinary collaboration and future-facing design.

In this role, you will lead on teaching and curriculum development with a focus on smart textiles, coding, digital workflows, and emerging material technologies. You’ll deliver practice-based learning that supports students to explore how democratised technologies, textiles and culture could intersect in new ways within an ethical and futures framework.

You’ll also engage in assessment, academic and pastoral support, and contribute to the strategic development of the course in line with industry advancements and university priorities.

About You

We are looking for candidates with experience in teaching and assessment in Higher Education, holding a relevant undergraduate degree in design or a related subject. This role is particularly suited to individuals with a background in smart textiles, coding, and emerging material technologies, with an appetite for developing Textile Design education fit for future purpose.

Your experience should be also supported by evidence of research, knowledge exchange, or professional practice that contributes to advancing the discipline.

Strong communication skills, effective planning, and a collaborative approach are also essential.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

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Closing date: 2 September 2025.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Claire Anderson / c.anderson@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Christine Crouch / jobs.ccw@arts.ac.uk.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.