Assistant Professor

1 month ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Northumbria University Full time
ABOUT THE ROLE

The Department of Architecture and Built Environment (ABE) at Northumbria University engages with the full spectrum of disciplines that shape the future of our built environment including Architecture, Interior Architecture, Construction Project Management, Quantity Surveying Building Surveying and Real Estate.

A testament of our academic excellence, our diverse course in built environment and construction project management are accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Association for Project Management (APM). We hold Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Accredited Centre Status. We are ranked 11th in "Construction, Surveying and Planning" in the UK (Guardian League Tables 2024). We are also ranked 13th in "Building" in the UK (Complete University Guide League Tables 2025). Our programmes are offered at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels utilising various modes of interaction including in-person, distance learning, and degree apprenticeship provisions. We engage with industry, professional institutions and UK/overseas bodies and research networks, including The Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) and the Conseil International du Bâtiment (CIB).

Working within the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, and specifically within the built environment subject area, this part time (0.5 FTE) role involves both teaching, fostering our connections with contemporary professional practice, and adopting and implementing the principles of experiential learning. Our built environment subject includes teaching in Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying and Real Estate, and we especially welcome applications from applicants with extensive professional experience in at least one of these areas.

Applicants for the Assistant Professor (Practice) role are expected to meet essential criteria that include:

  • Hold a first degree in a relevant subject and a professional qualification or substantial professional experience in on or more areas within the Bult Environment subject area.
  • Be able to demonstrate contemporary expert specialist knowledge and subject expertise within the relevant discipline/practice areas ensuring that the curriculum reflects the latest developments within practice.
  • Have experience in designing, delivering, assessing, and evaluating high-quality teaching and learning practice, and/or evidence of contributions to the development of contemporary practice.
  • Engage in one or more research groups which include: Adaptation, Value, and the Built Environment; Sustainable Construction Futures; Design Research Group and Practice-Based Research; Digital Built Environment; and People and Place, in addition to "Urban Futures"; an interdisciplinary research theme.
  • Applicants are encouraged to explain and be ready to discuss how their contemporary practice experience and connections might connect with one or more of these research strands.

The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team that teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, including students studying towards degree and degree apprenticeships and students studying online.

This is a permanent, part time (0.5 FTE) role.

Further information about the requirements of the Assistant Professor (Practice) role is available in the person specification .

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact Professor Richard Laing, Head of Subject (Built Environment) at richard.laing@northumbria.ac.uk or Professor Ashraf Salama, Head of Department of Architecture and Built Environment at ashraf.salama@northumbria.ac.uk

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance .

This opportunity is open to applications from internal candidates who do not hold a current substantive academic role at Northumbria. Current academic colleagues with a substantive role are encouraged to consider options to progress via the Academic Development Review process.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a covering letter, CV including research /education statements, and grants and publications list. Please highlight your highest quality practice outputs up to a maximum of 5. In addition, candidates are asked to provide copies of the top 2 practice outputs which may be in the form of practice-based portfolio. Where possible, candidates are asked to combine all of these documents into a single file.

ABOUT US

Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience.Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence;Innovation;Inclusivity;Collaboration; andAmbition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleaguesfrom a range of roles across the University, whoworked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds bronze Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter awards in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender and race equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

We are committed to keeping your data safe so it's important for you to know how we use any personal data you give us. For more detailed information, access our Privacy Policy .Are you an experienced practitioner or academic looking for a role that provides you with the opportunity to bring your professional expertise of contemporary practice into our programmes to inform the delivery of exceptional teaching and support student success?

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