Lecturer in Dance

Candidates willbe expected to work on campus teaching or engaged with students, assisting with recruitment, outreach and open days at least 3 days per week. Working from homewill be limited to one day a week and this can be used for admin, research andnon-student facing activities.

The School of Arts, Culture & Environment traces its distinguished history back to 1852 when the Cheltenham School of Art was established. Today,as one of the three constituent Schools in the University of Gloucestershire,the School currently has over 2200 students and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as Postgraduate Study &PhD's Subjects offered by the School of Creative Arts include, Humanities,Journalism, Film & TV, Art & Design, Performing Arts, Photography, and Architecture, Construction & Environment.

The Department of Performance includes three courses, Acting, Musical Theatre and Dance. You will be joining the BA Dance Course team.

Our teaching is intensely practical, with real world partnerships,projects and productions. We strive tosupport our students to get out into the world with the right skills to helpthem become visible, viable practitioners.

We're proud to have created an ethos which both stretches and supports our performance students, challenging them to be the best possible dancers and the best possible versions of themselves in line with the university's key pillars of careers, connections and community.

We'renow looking for new people to join our team: you will be teaching across our BADance courses, as well as into BA Musical Theatre, engaging our students withtheir ever-evolving craft and the arts sector more widely. You'll join a teamof experts and teach on courses which have been recently newly refined to bringout the best in our students.

Wework flexibly; we want to be innovative and emulate best practice. We need people with expertise in the following areas:

• Dance Teaching & Pedagogy
• Choreography

Wewant the people who join our team to bring a dynamic and contemporary understanding of current practice and who can motivate and enthuse our students to be the best they can be. Your experience as a practitioner matters to us andyour teaching experience will be a bonus. Teaching would begin in January 2026.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about what kindof practitioner we're looking for, please contact Rachael Bock,Senior Lecturer and Academic Course Leader in Dance at

The suitability of this rolefor Skilled Worker visa sponsorship will be considered in line with current UK immigration rules and the individual circumstances of the successful candidate.

The University is committed to building a diverse and inclusive staff community and welcomes applications from currently under-represented sections of our workforce. We are proud to be aDisability Confident Employer, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring thatthe University is inclusive and accessible. As part of this commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the definition of disability setout in the Equality Act 2010 and who meet the essential criteria within theperson specification.

The University has also signed the Armed Forces Covenant, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring that those whoserve or have served in the Armed Forces, and their families, are treated fairly and are not disadvantaged. For applicants, this means we aim to ensure fair and equitable treatment throughout the recruitment process, recognise andvalue the transferable skills and experience gained through military service.

As part of this commitment, we guarantee an interview to veterans and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria within the job specification.

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