Associate Professor of Spatial Justice London
Job description
About us The Bartlett is unrivalled in its breadth and depth of disciplines, programmes and departments. It is made up of 9 departments, which are constructed of 13 schools, Institutes, Centres and Units, providing teaching and research in a wide range of subject areas to over 4,000 students each year from across the world. The Bartlett is ranked #1 in the world for Architecture and the Built Environment and remains #1 in the UK for the ninth year in a row, in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2023. The Bartlett School of Architecture is a world-leading place to study, teach and research architecture. The School is a key part of UCL, a top-world-ranking university, where architecture has been taught for over 175 years. With over 400 staff, across two state-of-the-art London sites, the school enjoys a rich reputation for cultivating innovative ideas in architecture and is currently the top architecture school by the Architects' Journal AJ100 for the 17th consecutive year. For further information about the School, please visit www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture About the role The Bartlett School of Architecture is launching a Just Environments Cluster Hire, recruiting a cohort of early- and mid-career academics with expertise in spatial justice and climate justice and their intersectionality. The cohort will consist of an Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, an Associate Professor of Climate Justice, and three Design+ positions at either Assistant Professor or Lecturer level. The Spatial Justice and Climate Justice roles will participate in the department's new shared governance leadership structure, leveraging their expertise in just environments to innovate within our curricula and to engage external collaborators both locally and globally. The Just Environments Cluster will be recruited through the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment's Race and Spatial Justice Recruitment Focus. The Just Environments Cluster Hire will build upon the work of numerous BSA staff and students within the School, advocating for architecture to be more inclusive in its pedagogies and practices, thereby contributing to a more just built environment. Visa Sponsorship This role meets the eligibility requirements for a skilled worker certificate of sponsorship or a global talent visa under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL welcomes applications from international applicants who require a visa. We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible. Please see the following link to UCL's Work-Life Balance Policy https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/policies/2021/aug/work-life-balance. This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Academic Staff. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/policies/2021/jun/conditions-service-academic-staff for more information. About you The post-holder will be involved in collaborative engagement across the School of Architecture, teaching studio and piloting spatial justice elective modules with the capacity to travel across our twenty-four programmes. The post-holder will also be required to contribute to the development of the curricula of our accredited programmes in accordance with the proposed ARB changes. You will develop international quality research or design research in the discipline through the lens of social justice and identify sources of research/grant funding, internally and externally including for major multi-year projects leading to the role of Principal Investigator. As the BSA Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, the post holder will carry out enabling duties as are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the job, as requested by the Director of School. This will include developing and strengthening the school's relationship across the faculty and wider UCL and may involve contributing to modules on relevant and complimentary programmes. To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below. A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Please note, we recommend applicants copy and paste the essential criteria from the Person Specification of the Job Description into your 'Statement in support of your application' and describe how you meet each criteria, giving examples. If you have any queries about the role, please contact School Director Amy Kulper @ucl.ac.uk. If you need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online or have any queries about the application process, please contact the HR Team at bartlett.. The UCL Ways of Working supports colleagues to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work - please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ways-of-working to find out more. Please also be aware, we will retain your details in our recruitment system and contact you again should a position arise, which might be of interest to you unless you notify us otherwise. What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. Please see the following link to our Equal opportunities policy https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/policies/2022/sep/equal-opportunities. The Bartlett is committed to fostering scholarship on race and spatial justice in the built environment. We are committed to articulating the effects of race on spaces and taking steps to undo the harm of racism through our educational offering, research activity, and fair representation in our staff and student community. As part of this effort, we are trialling a scheme to automatically grant interviews to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) applicants who meet all the essential criteria for this post. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our Faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality. Times Higher Education
