Academic Staff (Architecture and Design)

The Canterbury School of Architecture and Design is in an exciting phase of growth, with new courses in Landscape, Urban Design, Architectural Technology, Automotive & Transport Design, Modelmaking and Interior Decoration & Styling planned for September 2023. Existing courses include Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Product and Furniture Design and Industrial Design.

We are looking for inspiring new colleagues in all areas to join our expanding community. Our School has a distinctive approach to education that originates in its Art School heritage, emphasising critical and engaged models of teaching, learning and research. We foster varied cultures of thinking and making that synthesise traditional hand drawing and making techniques with advanced digital media workflows. We believe that inter-relationships between processes and media provide important opportunities for the creative design imagination to invent and to be enacted. Our pedagogic approach situates such imaginative futures in clearly articulated critical understandings of the present.

We are a consistent high performer in the Guardian League table for Architecture and we return high scoring student satisfaction results. Canterbury is an historic city with three UNESCO World Heritage sites, close to the Kent Downs (Area of Natural Outstanding Beauty) and with good rail links to London.

We welcome applications from across the spectrum of our subject areas and level of experience. A short online application process will invite you to upload your CV and a supporting statement outlining your interest and area of expertise. If you have any queries about applying, please contact peopleandculture@uca.ac.uk.

The School aims to provide a diverse and inclusive environment for all of our staff and students. As a teaching staff, we are currently over-represented by those who identify as ‘White’. We particularly encourage applications from people of Black, Asian, Chinese and Mixed heritage. We are also a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria of our person specification. We greatly look forward to the possibility of meeting you soon.