Professor Interior Design

Northumbria University; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension schemes

Flexible working

Generous holiday entitlement

Job summary

Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks a Professor of Interior Spatial and Sustainable Design to provide strategic academic leadership, build a globally recognised research profile, and lead studio-based teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The role emphasises innovation in teaching and research, addressing environmental and societal challenges, and strengthening partnerships with industry and design practice.

Qualifications

• Senior academic post with a distinguished record of research, scholarship, or practice-based enquiry in interior design, interior architecture, or a closely related field.
• Externally recognised academic with strong national or international reputation and sustained research output internationally excellent in originality, significance, and rigour.
• Experienced academic leader with success in leadership and management of people, teams and projects, and developing academic colleagues.
• Definition and development of your academic field with a strong record of securing funding from various sources.

Responsibilities

• Provide intellectual, strategic and academic leadership for the discipline.
• Lead high-quality studio-based teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
• Strengthen external partnerships across industry, practice and the wider design sector.
• Address environmental and societal issues as core to teaching and research.

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking to appoint a Professor of Interior Spatial and Sustainable Design to provide intellectual, strategic, and academic leadership for the discipline. You will build and sustain a nationally and internationally recognised research profile, lead high-quality studio-based teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and strengthen our external partnerships across industry, practice, and the wider design sector. Candidates will be innovative in their outlook to teaching and research, and address current environmental and societal issues as core to their work.

This is a senior academic post and we welcome applications from candidates with a distinguished record of research, scholarship, or practice-based enquiry in interior design, interior architecture, or a closely related field.

Further information is available in the Professor job description.

About The Team

The School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries (DACI) at Northumbria University is a leading provider of graduates to UK design and creative industries and has an outstanding track-record for design leadership amongst its alumni.

Our graduates go on to shape practice across commercial, hospitality, healthcare, residential and heritage sectors.

The school prioritises societal transformation and green-transition across all design disciplines, which include product, industrial and service design areas. DACI is a large school with approximately 1,600 students with 120 staff and offers programmes from foundation level to PhD in design and creative subjects.

The school prioritises inclusion and access, aiming to break down barriers so that all students can thrive within the creative industries.

More information can be found here.

About You

As an externally recognised academic with a strong national and or international reputation you will evidence sustained research output of a quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance, and rigour.

An experienced academic leader you will demonstrate success in the leadership and management of people, teams, and projects, in particular supporting the development of academic colleagues.

You should demonstrate definition and development of your academic field and have significant and strong record of securing funding from a range of sources.

Further information is available in the Professor person specification.

Please contact Professor Ambrose Field, Head of School, for an informal discussion on [e-mail].

About Us

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With over 37,000 students from over 140 countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more.

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Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holdingnumerousawards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of 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.

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