"Lecturer (Teaching) Music Education (0.15 FTE)"

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education; Applied Linguistics; Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

As member of the music team, you will be part of the International Music Education Research Centre (iMerc) within CCM, which is dedicated to research in music education, broadly defined. Its mission is to promote the UCL Institute of Education as a centre of international excellence in research and teaching in its field.

In this post you will provide specialist advice and support for Dissertation/Report students. You will offer specialist individual and small-group tutorial supervision face-to-face to Dissertation and Report students on the Music Education MA as well as guidance, for example, by e-mail, or Zoom/Teams. You will also:

• assist students in their topic choices;
• guide and support individual MA students through the stages of their Dissertation or Report, including planning, completion of the ethics application, library-based and empirical research.

About you

With a PhD in music education, music or a closely related subject or equivalent experience, you will also have a good understanding of common approaches to research in psychology and the social sciences, including related literature (e.g., on statistical methods, experimental approaches, surveys, qualitative analysis, ethnography, action research, life histories, narratives).

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria. It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.