All Things Urban

By any objective measure, Lancaster University is among the best in the country – not only in the top 10 of all three major league tables, but also ranked highly for student satisfaction, employment and research, with the top ranking of Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2017. Lancaster has a world-class reputation for research and teaching excellence, with many of our academics leaders within their fields of study and our subjects consistently highly ranked in major league tables.

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) encompasses Lancaster’s teaching and research activities in Art, Architecture, Design, Film and Theatre. LICA is a vibrant and highly supportive learning environment where a strong research ethos underpins and shapes everything we do. We are committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts. eyond Imagination, a radical £13.2 million 3 year research project, will explore and demonstrate how cutting-edge design research can create a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable world. It will enable ImaginationLancaster to expand its expertise and reach. Funded by Research England, the bold and engaging Beyond Imagination project will put design research at Lancaster firmly on the global map, transforming the University’s ImaginationLancaster design team with 30 new roles – a significant increase. The three-year project will provide fresh perspectives on real world challenges focusing on five key Clusters: home and living; communities and the public sector; factory and workplaces; cities and urban; and population and policy. And four themes sustainability, health, international and prosperity. It will address current global challenges such as Ageing Society, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Clean Growth, Health and Wellbeing - and it will also identify and tackle future emerging challenges. We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

£35k - £36k

This job is available for international candidates.