Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Leadership

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Winchester School of Art is proud to be one of the UK’s leading art Schools and part of the world-renowned University of Southampton, a founder member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Our research-intensive environment and international student body provide a rich ground for interdisciplinary thinking and making at the nexus of art, science, technology, and culture.
**Department of Fashion & Textiles**

The Department of Fashion & Textiles is the school’s largest department, offering design, leadership & strategy, and marketing education, at undergraduate, taught-postgraduate, and doctoral levels. The department supports one of the largest international student communities in Europe studying fashion leadership, management, and strategy programmes, whilst sustaining a long-held reputation for the nurturing of high-level design practice and craft-based skills. The department supports a diverse and inclusive research environment, with notable strengths in fashion & têxtiles and cultural history, critical luxury studies, sustainability, and e-têxtiles and materials innovation.
**The role**

This role is part of the school’s Fashion and Textile department. The department includes programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the areas of Fashion leadership, including, Fashion Management, Fashion Marketing and Branding, Fashion Marketing with Management and Luxury Brand Management, as well as our practice-based programmes Fashion Design and Textile Design. This role focuses on maintaining our growing national and international reputation in Fashion Leadership, including marketing, management, Branding and the digital context in this ever-evolving area. The role will focus on high quality education and research delivery that complement the school and university’s broader research and education strategy. This is an excellent opportunity to join an ever-growing school, that embraces education, research, and enterprise, focusing on the student experience, curriculum development, underpinned by research, as well as collaborating with industry partners.
**About You**

You will have a proven track record of developing and delivering an excellent standard of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as a track record of publishing research and attracting research funding. A key to this role is being able to work collaboratively with several stakeholders, both internal and external to the school, as well as integrate high quality research and teaching activities to ensure the university and school’s strategies are met. If you have a growing and consistent national and international reputation in Fashion marketing, management, sustainability, research practice, research methodologies and overall fashion leadership across different sectors this role is for you. Become a part of a dynamic group of academics that are leading the way in fashion leadership. Both relevant academic and industry experience is welcomed.
**What we can offer you**

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. Our core benefits include pension scheme membership; a generous annual leave allowance (supplemented by University closure days and public holidays) and excellent family leave arrangements (including maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave).

Committed to supporting our teaching and research community we are open to flexible working. With an understanding that there is a need to be on campus for teaching duties we are open to a hybrid approach. We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly including part-time and those who have taken a career break. Proud to be a founding signatory of the Athena Swan gender equality charter we hold an institutional Silver award.

**Application procedure**

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