Associate Lecturers: Film and Television

With 120 years’ creative arts experience, we are on a quest to offer the highest standards of teaching and professional facilities, as well as a vibrant creative community. With over 7,000 students, our portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and postgraduate research represents the breadth of the creative industries, from art, design and fashion, to games, music, film and business.

Our mission is to deliver exceptional higher education and research, harnessing the fusion of creativity and technology as foundations of the future economy.  We use our knowledge and expertise in these disciplines to generate positive and sustainable opportunities for all.

 

We are seeking to recruit to our pool of Associate Lecturers, joining our team within the School of Film & Television in our purpose-built facility at the Penryn campus, Cornwall from September 2025.

 

This is a CILECT accredited facility, working within the ScreenSkills accredited BA Film, BA Television & Film Production, our postgraduate courses, and offering online taught postgraduate provision and PhD support. Our community of committed scholars and professionals ensure that our constantly evolving courses are informed by the latest academic scholarship and the demands of a vibrant industry environment. Our research and professional practice is framed by the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, a multifaceted partner, funder, resource and research centre dedicated to the production and education of independent cinema https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/programmes/pedagogy-futures/cinema-lab#project-team

 

Teaching primarily on our undergraduate courses in BA Film, BA Television & Film Production, BA Post-Production and Visual Effects, and potentially in our taught post-graduate provision, Associate Lecturers contribute to practice and/or contextual teaching across modules in all years, from individual supervision of final year projects to small-group tutoring (-25 students).

 

Hours and days worked are negotiable in advance, but in most cases ALs commit to contributing an agreed set of hours to a specific taught module, for an entire Study Block (term) from September. Marking duties are included, with support and guidance from module leaders.

 

These roles are for on-campus delivery, at our Penryn Campus, in Cornwall.

 

 

You will have demonstrable experience as a professional in your specific discipline, and the ability and enthusiasm to connect your professional practice with the industrial, ethical, practical and contextual aspects of screen education. You will be an organized, effective communicator with a passion for developing the next generation of screen professionals. You will possess an undergraduate degree, and experience of teaching in a HE environment at an undergraduate level – however support will be provided for the right candidate.

 

We are currently seeking applicants with expertise in one or more of the following disciplines: production design/set building, directing performance for screen, producing shorts and features, screenwriting and script editing, visual effects and motion graphics (including After Effects), sound design and mixing (AVID ProTools), editing (AVID Media Composer), and creative industries entrepreneurship. Experience in related fields (e.g. theatre) may be applicable.

 

 

You will have relevant experience as a screen scholar or practitioner or within a clearly applicable transferable academic discipline, such as theatre studies/fine art film/literature studies/cultural/narrative studies. You will possess an undergraduate degree, and a postgraduate degree is desirable.

 

This role may be well-suited to someone currently pursuing PhD studies with a view to a career in Higher Education. Excellent communication and literacy skills are essential, and successful applicants will be expected to support students in developing their essay-writing and presentation skills. You will have a keen interest in supporting students as they develop their critical and analytical approaches to screen practice, particularly as related to genre, representation, and cultural, historical and industrial contexts. You may have experience of supervising final year dissertations, and will have the ability to demonstrate that you can do so effectively. 

 

For further details on the skills/experience required for this role, please see the full job description above.

 

If you are looking to have an informal discussion about the vacancy ahead of applying, please email [email protected].

 

The closing date for the position is Sunday 31 August 2025.

 

In return for you hard work and commitment, we offer excellent facilities and benefits, including:

  

 - Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme

Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.

 

Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.