Teaching Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History
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Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/2/2025
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Description
Job Description
Grade UE07: £40,497– £48,149 per annum pro rata
CAHSS/Edinburgh College of Art/History of Art
Part-time: 24.5 hours per week
Fixed-Term: 31st December 2026
The Opportunity
We are looking for a colleague with experience or potential to produce exceptional teaching in the field of Modern and Contemporary Art History.
The Job Purpose is to cover the teaching and associated duties of a member of staff for the 2025-26 academic year and part of the following year.
The start date is 1September 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a fixed term role and will therefore cover 1.5 full academic year cycles of teaching and citizenship duties, including undergraduate and taught postgraduate lectures and specialist courses, project and dissertation supervision.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 16 th July 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Research in History of Art is of consistently internationally recognised quality and covers a wide variety of periods in numerous outputs. All staff in History of Art are active researchers, working in a wide range of fields, and their research interests strongly inform their teaching, both undergraduate and postgraduate.
History of Art has an unusually wide range of specialist expertise, covering early and late Medieval art, the Renaissance, the Early Modern/Baroque period, and art from Neoclassicism to the present-day, with a particular focus on late nineteenth-century art and contemporary art and theory. World cultures are another distinctive feature of our research and teaching, with full-time staff specialising in Islamic and Chinese art, architecture and visual culture. Our students are also able to take courses taught by specialists in visual culture in Classics, Architecture and Film Studies. History of Art at Edinburgh also encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods to the study of art and visual culture.
Find out more at https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/history-art
Grade UE07: £40,497– £48,149 per annum pro rata
CAHSS/Edinburgh College of Art/History of Art
Part-time: 24.5 hours per week
Fixed-Term: 31st December 2026
The Opportunity
We are looking for a colleague with experience or potential to produce exceptional teaching in the field of Modern and Contemporary Art History.
The Job Purpose is to cover the teaching and associated duties of a member of staff for the 2025-26 academic year and part of the following year.
The start date is 1September 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a fixed term role and will therefore cover 1.5 full academic year cycles of teaching and citizenship duties, including undergraduate and taught postgraduate lectures and specialist courses, project and dissertation supervision.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- A PhD or equivalent qualification in the field of Modern/Contemporary Art History
- Ability to deliver specific courses in the field as required by the teaching needs of the subject area, in particular the following undergraduate courses: HIAR10066 Sexual Politics and the Image http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/24-25/dpt/cxhiar10066.htm and HIAR10065 The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/24-25/dpt/cxhiar10065.htm
- Ability to run a suite of guided research and/or work placements, managing relationships with host organisations and supporting students on placement.
- A positive and creative approach to teaching and relationships with professional partners
- Openness to the ideas and motivations of others and willingness to work as part of a team of academics and administrators
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 16 th July 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Research in History of Art is of consistently internationally recognised quality and covers a wide variety of periods in numerous outputs. All staff in History of Art are active researchers, working in a wide range of fields, and their research interests strongly inform their teaching, both undergraduate and postgraduate.
History of Art has an unusually wide range of specialist expertise, covering early and late Medieval art, the Renaissance, the Early Modern/Baroque period, and art from Neoclassicism to the present-day, with a particular focus on late nineteenth-century art and contemporary art and theory. World cultures are another distinctive feature of our research and teaching, with full-time staff specialising in Islamic and Chinese art, architecture and visual culture. Our students are also able to take courses taught by specialists in visual culture in Classics, Architecture and Film Studies. History of Art at Edinburgh also encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods to the study of art and visual culture.
Find out more at https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/history-art
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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