Lecturer: Interior Design

Falmouth University; Penryn; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 40,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Teachers' Pension Scheme

35 days + 8 bank holidays

Annual salary increments

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay/Adopt

Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)

Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme

Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme

Job summary

Falmouth University seeks a lecturer to join the School of Architecture, Design & Interiors, teaching interior architecture and design while guiding students through contemporary practices and professional contexts.

You will contribute to shaping a rapidly evolving course focused on sustainable, socially engaged design, fostering critical thinking and hands-on making in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive and current knowledge of interior architecture and interior design, with understanding of contemporary spatial practice, materiality and sustainability.
• Strong design development and communication skills to translate concepts into spatial proposals.
• Experience with contemporary digital and/or analogue design processes and fabrication methods.
• Active interest in development of the discipline through professional, research or creative practice.

Responsibilities

• Teach and mentor students in interior architecture/design across disciplines.
• Develop and update course content to reflect contemporary practice and technologies.
• Support interdisciplinary collaboration and industry engagement within the School of Architecture, Design & Interiors.

Skills

Interior architecture knowledge

Design development

Digital/analogue design

Professional practice engagement

Job description

About The Role

Join a vibrant community of educators, designers and innovators at Falmouth University, based in one of the UK’s most creative and inspiring regions. Our Interior Architecture & Interior Design courses bring together spatial thinking, material experimentation, technology, culture and social and environmental responsibility, giving students the opportunity to question how spaces are designed and experienced.

As a Lecturer you’ll join a forward-thinking and supportive creative community within the School of Architecture, Design & Interiors, working alongside colleagues across architecture, spatial design and related disciplines. Our students are ambitious, curious and willing to challenge conventions, and we encourage them to develop distinctive design voices while engaging critically with the complex social, cultural and environmental issues shaping the built environment.

The course is evolving rapidly, with an exciting focus on contemporary practice, emerging technologies, sustainable approaches and socially engaged design. You’ll play a key role in shaping this development, bringing your own expertise and perspective to teaching while helping students connect creative ideas with rigorous design thinking and professional practice.

Our industry-standard workshops, digital fabrication facilities, specialist studios and digital technologies provide an excellent environment for experimentation and making. The wider creative community at Falmouth also creates opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, industry engagement and new approaches to design.

Based in Cornwall, Falmouth offers an exceptional setting in which to live, work and teach. Its strong creative culture, distinctive landscape and close-knit community provide an inspiring context for educators and students alike.

This is an opportunity to join a course with real ambition: to develop the next generation of interior designers who can think critically, work creatively and make a meaningful contribution to the spaces, communities and environments of the future.

About You

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking designer and educator with experience of teaching in higher education and/or professional practice in interior architecture, interior design or a closely related discipline. You’ll be passionate about helping students develop their own creative voice, while encouraging them to question established approaches and engage critically with the social, cultural, environmental and technological challenges shaping contemporary spatial practice.

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Comprehensive and current knowledge of interior architecture and interior design, with an understanding of contemporary approaches to spatial practice, materiality, sustainability and the relationship between people, place and environment.
• Strong design development and communication skills, with the ability to support students in translating conceptual ideas into resolved spatial proposals through appropriate visual, technical and material methods.
• Experience of contemporary digital and/or analogue design processes, including relevant technologies, representation techniques, fabrication or making, and an enthusiasm for emerging approaches to spatial design.
• Evidence of engagement with professional, research or creative practice, demonstrating an active interest in the development of the discipline and the ability to bring relevant contemporary perspectives into teaching.

You’ll be comfortable working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary academic team and supporting students with different backgrounds, experiences and levels of confidence. Most importantly, you’ll be curious, generous with your knowledge and committed to creating an ambitious and inclusive learning environment in which students can take creative risks and develop as independent designers.

This position is offered on a fixed-term for 12 months, part-time, 21 hours per week basis, in person on our Falmouth campus. The exact working pattern is to be agreed with the successful candidate.

The closing date for the position is Sunday 4 October 2026.

About Us

In return for you hard work and commitment, we offer excellent facilities and benefits, including:

• Teachers' Pension Scheme
• 35 days + 8 days bank holiday.
• Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay/Adoption Pay
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)
• Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme

Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.

Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.