Job Description

From galvanising the economy through skills provision, job creation and global investment, to delivering social impact, generating civic pride, and developing the socially responsible leaders of the future, we fulfil our mission: to transform lives and economies.

Following our successful performance in the REF 2021 Teesside University is investing in its research base to strengthen our academic excellence and research leadership in biosciences, social policy, health, culture and digital.

To ensure future sustainability and a pipeline of aspiring leaders we are offering a number of professorial roles for outstanding researchers aligned to our areas of excellence.

We are now recruiting a Professor to be based in our School of Arts and Creative Industries. Colleagues in this school submitted to the REF Art & Design Unit of Assessment (U0A32) in which they scored 14 in the UK for research power. The panel noted strengths in practice-based curatorial research and in film.

We have recently successfully delivered an AHRC funded capital project to develop a research hub at MIMA, our Institute of Modern Art which supports the cross-institutional research centre the Centre for Creativity and Culture.

We are looking for individuals who will help us grow our research footprint and grow and develop our team across a range of themes including, but not exclusively:

• Practice-based curatorial research
• Heritage and digital technology crossovers
• Health and wellbeing, design and creative practice
• Sustainability and environmental change, arts, design and creative industries.
• Film and media and advanced media production.

The successful candidate/s will be an international practicing artist and an academic with a research portfolio in experimental museum and/or curatorial practice and/or an academic with a track record in design research engaging publics and communities. Academics may apply for any subject in the school including art, design, curating, media, fashion, film, television, interior design, user experience design, product design, illustration, graphic design, comics, art psychotherapy, journalism, digital PR and sustainable design.

The University has strong track record in Equality and Diversity and responsible research culture. It holds an HR Excellence in Research award; an Investors in People Gold status; Disability Confident, Leader status; an Athena Swan Bronze Award; is a signatory to the Race at Work Charter; is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA); and is a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post may qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.

If you are shortlisted, your interview will take place on campus. Please note that the University may ask you to participate in a number of selection activities as part of the recruitment process for this vacancy.

Please note that we are advertising this vacancy on other websites but we are not using those third parties to collate applications for us. If you are viewing this advert on a third party website please ensure you apply directly to Teesside University ( ).

Job Reference: T00014

For further details of this and other academic posts, please refer to our website at:

Closing date: 19/10/2023

Interview date: 22/11/2023

\xc2\xa382,068 per annum

Jobs.ac.uk