Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures
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Leeds is one of the most popular universities in the UK for Arts and Humanities degrees, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (AHC) is one of the largest of its kind in Europe, with over 8,500 students studying a variety of subjects across 11 schools:
- School of Design
- School of English
- School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
- School of History
- School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
- School of Media and Communication
- School of Music
- School of Performance and Cultural Industries
- School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
- Institute for Medieval Studies
- Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre
Student education
We aspire to be sector leading in all areas of student education. Our Faculty research group, Pedagogic Research in the Arts, provides funding, support, and leadership development across pedagogic research and student education. We also proactively support all staff to pursue HEA recognition.
The Faculty is committed to widening participation and student success. Our extensive partnerships and work placements offer a raft of opportunities for students to explore their future careers with a range of local, regional, national and international partners.
Projects including our Leeds Excellence in the Arts Programme and our Student Advisory Board support individual students, and particular groups of students who may be disadvantaged, to achieve their potential. We also work closely and collaborate with our students, and co-creation was the basis for our recent Content Notes guidance for Schools, as well as our current Decolonising project work.
Research
We support funded research placements and student engagement with research culture, and our hugely successful annual research conference (The Undergraduate Research Experience) sees hundreds of students from across the Faculty engaging with each another's research.
Our researchers are currently leading projects worth over £8 million, funded by research councils, charities and the European Union. Between 2016-2020, we were ranked 1st in the UK for the value and number of awards made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Both the QS and THE World University Rankings have consistently placed the Faculty as one of the world’s top 100 in the past decade.
Working in partnership
We are actively engaged in projects with public sector organisations and the wider business community, from The Royal Armouries Museum to Google.
Postdoctoral researchers in the Arts and the Humanities are supported by a networking and development programme led by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, alongside a well-established impact and innovation infrastructure, designed to help all our colleagues realise the full potential of their research.
Job vacancies
We are advertising some roles which will involve working across more than one school. We have aligned each role to one school, and this will be identifiable from the job description. However, if your skills and experience are more suitably aligned to a different school, we are open to this discussion at interview. We will seek to ensure that successful candidates are located within a school that fits their disciplinary expertise.
Lecturer vacancies that specify Grade 7/8 can be offered at either grade 7 or 8. For these, please read the job description at each grade before you apply. You can specify which grade(s) you wish to be considered for when completing the application form. Specification points for grade 8 are clearly identifiable on the application form.
(A lecturer is similar to an assistant professor in the United States).
- Grade 8 Lecturer in Pedagogies of Art: Practice and History
- Grade 7/8 Lecturer in Film Studies, with a language or area specialism in cinemas currently under-represented in the field
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