Lecturer in Creative Practice

$101,257 to $120,255
- Ongoing, full-time
- Kelvin Grove

**Who are we looking for?**

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Lecturer in Creative Practice (Creative Production) to join ,.

The successful applicant will have an established track record of teaching, research, and transdisciplinary creative production experience across performing, screen, live music and/or interactive media arts. They will play a central role in positioning the School as a leader in research that explores industrial and technological convergences rapidly expanding the creative, production, technical, and audience engagement possibilities for music, theatre, television, film, animation, and interactive media arts professionals. They will equip students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Creative Industries courses with the critical, creative, and production skills required for careers marked by constant change in how we produce, distribute, and consume creative content.

**Real world impact**

QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a 'real world' focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.

**About the Academic Division**

Academic Division includes the University’s faculties and research centres. It is responsible for education (learning and teaching), research, research services and support, and digital business solutions.

**About the Faculty**

In our rapidly changing world, driving economic, social and cultural development increasingly requires collaboration. This new Faculty acknowledges this context— and specifically that how society learns, creates, communicates and collaborates is at the forefront of all innovative and impactful contributions.
The focus of the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice is to pursue research with impact and prepare our students for innovative roles as knowledge leaders at the nexus of design, education, communication, creative practice and social change.
With an intersection of creativity, education and social justice combined with QUT’s overall focus on technology, the Faculty has strong ties to government and industry which provides our courses with a Real-World focus.

**About the School of Creative Practice**

Creativity, arts and culture express who we are, reflect our past and shape our futures. We lead the creative and cultural sector of the future through interdisciplinary excellence, innovation and collaboration by our research, teaching, and engagement. We value existing, experimental, and emerging forms of knowledge through high impact, industry-embedded and socially-engaged creative practice. We create global thinkers and makers for the real world.
The School brings together a range of creative practice disciplines, and consequently provides students with the opportunity to engage in transdisciplinary approaches to their learning and/or research activities - reflective of collaborative experiences in the real world.
The curriculum is structured around core units with additional units in the following study areas:

- Animation
- Film and Screen
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- Acting
- Drama
- Technical Production
- Music
- Visual Arts

**What you need to succeed**

You will demonstrate:
1. Completion of a doctoral qualification.
2. A Strong record of engaged and impactful research in the creative industries; evidenced for instance by publications in relevant high-quality journals; success in winning competitive research funding from key national and international funding bodies; completion of high impact research projects with government, industry, or community partners; consultancy with government, industry, commercial and/ or professional bodies
3. Demonstrated ability in learning and teaching, including scholarly and innovative approaches to learning and teaching as well as successful supervision of higher degree research students in the relevant area(s) with a record of positive student feedback.
4. Demonstrated track record of success in establishing and maintaining multidisciplinary teaching and research project collaborations with industry, community, and/or government partners in the arts, education, social services, health, and/or other sectors, both nationally and internationally
5. Demonstrated highly developed organisational and project management skills, with evidence of project completions
6. Demonstrated track record of teaching, research, and professional practice in production management for music, theatre, television, film, animation, and/or interactive media arts contexts
7. Demonstrated track record of teaching, research, and professional practice in creative technologies