Lecturer in Manchester Fashion Insitute

Are you looking for an ambitious, exciting, supportive and inclusive fashion school community within which to further develop your research and teaching?

Manchester Fashion Institute seeking to recruit multiple appointments across a number of grades (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor) – and we’d love to hear from you.

Interviews 8th or 12th December (senior appointments may take place at a later date)

Based in one of the UK’s largest fashion hubs, in the heart of a great global city, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Fashion Institute offers outstanding opportunities.

As part of the University’s significant investment in the delivery of the Manchester Fashion Institute’s new and ambitious strategic vision, there are a number of exciting opportunities available at all grades and across the full breadth of the fashion discipline, contributing to the delivery of programmes across the academic portfolio. The investment in these posts is explicitly driven by our desire to further increase our research quality and capacity, and new appointments will be supported with time to establish and grow their research activity. The posts include Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, professor, permanent, fixed term and hourly paid opportunities are available.

We wish to recruit to the following broad areas of strategic need in terms of research interest in fashion related subjects including, but not limited to:

marketing cultures communication technology engineering sports design branding management buying merchandising digital sustainability global strategy metaverse

Every appointment will be expected to contribute to the design and delivery of high quality teaching and assessment at undergraduate and postgraduate level. We have ambitious plans to grow our postgraduate provision, notably postgraduate research and those appointed could play a key part in supervision of PhD students.

This is an exciting time to join Manchester Fashion Institute. We have recently made a number of outstanding appointments from Lecturer through to Professor, work has just been completed on a new student social/study space in the heart of the Institute, we have been investing significantly in our digital capability with new state of the art equipment and software, we are growing our collaborations with the Institute of Sport and have well established links with the Manchester School of Art and the Triple Accredited Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (through which staff with a business and management background are able to access a range of professional development opportunities). Our external engagement continues to grow through international collaborations and a newly formed External Advisory Board and we are accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Chartered Management Institute and the Textile Institute. We are also members of the British Fashion Council, the International Foundation for Fashion Technology Institutes and the Graduate Fashion Foundation.  

The research community at Manchester Fashion Institute is vibrant and we are keen to capitalise on the recent REF success with fashion having made a significant contribution to the Art & Design submissions which was ranked second in the UK for research power and as a University, 90% of our research is considered world leading or internationally excellent.

To apply, please submit your CV and Covering Letter via our application portal. For informal enquiries, please contact Liz Barnes (Head of Manchester Fashion Institute) on l.barnes@mmu.ac.uk