[ecrea] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Writing for Screen and Performance

http://www.worcester.ac.uk/community/job-vacancy-lecturer-writing-screen-performance.html

We are seeking to appoint someone to contribute to teaching and 
development of Screenwriting at Worcester.

Currently, our undergraduate Screenwriting course is offered as a Joint 
Honours course, to be studied in combination with a range of other 
humanities & creative arts courses, including Drama & Performance, 
Digital Film Production and, from next year, Creative & Professional 
Writing. The course recruits well and its scope, and our ambition for 
it, have grown significantly over the past two years. We now wish to 
make an additional, specialist appointment that will support further 
development of the curriculum, possibly to develop a Single Honours 
route, and that will contribute to the burgeoning role of teaching and 
research in areas of writing within the Institute of Humanities & 
Creative Arts.

The successful candidate will bring to his/her teaching and research 
significant, relevant professional experience and success which will 
support student and graduate achievement. The appointee will also be 
committed to university teaching and engaged with (and capable of 
engaging students with) the theoretical and historical framing of 
writing practices associated with screen writing and writing for 
performance. Candidates will be expected to be able to consider their 
own writing practices in research terms (possibly within the context of 
practice-as-research).

The post holder will be expected to teach across a range of practice-led 
and theory modules, to make a distinctive contribution to both 
undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum development and to develop 
industry links, contacts and networks from which students, the 
Screenwriting course and the Institute, more widely, may benefit.

As already described, we are looking for a candidate with a track record 
of practice in writing for film, TV and/or related contexts. We would 
especially welcome candidates also offering established and /or 
developing academic research profiles and with experience of academic 
course development. The appointee will be asked to take Worcester’s 
young Screenwriting course to a next level of development, assuming a 
leadership and administrative role within the Screenwriting and Film 
area, and to contribute to other appropriate aspects of writing 
provision.We particularly welcome applications from candidates offering 
experience in a range of the following:

• Writing for film, television and radio
• Playwriting and writing for live performance
• Creative writing
• Screenwriting theory
• Industry practice

As part of the selection process for the post, candidates invited for 
interview will be required to provide:

• A short interactive teaching session with students
• A 10-minute presentation to an audience of academic peers on the 
topic, ‘Illustrate your ideas for the development of Screenwriting at 
the University of Worcester’
• An opening 10-minute presentation, to the interview panel, on their 
professional practice or research, as part of a longer, formal interview.

The post is being offered as a full-time post, but candidates wishing to 
propose appointment on a fractional basis above 0.6 may also be considered.

Closing date: Wednesday 12 Jun 2013

Reference number: IHCA1304 - 1187





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