Assistant Professor, Design with AI - Dubai Campus

Role: Assistant Professor in Design with AI

Contract Type: Teaching & Research

Contract Duration: Open Ended

Grade: 7

Location: Dubai Campus

About our Team

We have staff across two campuses and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate degree education taught and research degrees. We have a vibrant research culture and an increasing design research funding portfolio.

You would join an international team at our Dubai Campus where our staff contribute to a vibrant environment for teaching learning research enterprise and knowledge exchange. You will further enhance a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our industryfacing focus on careers delivers results and we have an excellent reputation for graduate employability. Our funded research portfolio champions ethics excellence and rigour. Every aspect of business is underpinned by HeriotWatts pioneering spirit.

The design portfolio on the Dubai campus is growing. We focus on industrial social smart sustainable cities and systemic design. Currently we offer Communication Design Fashion Branding and Promotion Interior Architecture Design and Design Management. They are delivered by passionate and dedicated academics from various backgrounds with distinctly diverse specialisms. As a discipline design is a creative practice with innovative methods. It has many forms of innovation from cultural and environmental to social and technological. Our community is committed to understanding design in contexts such as Climate Change Health Care and Wellbeing NetZero and Future Mobility. All programmes and courses are delivered cooperatively within our Dubai campus and collaboratively with our UK campuses.

About the Role

TheSchool of Textiles and Design on the Dubai campus is seeking to recruit enthusiastic academics with experience in teaching and scholarship or candidates will be expected to build research over time and showcase innovative teaching pedagogies. Successful candidates will also be expected to develop strong links to colleagues at the Scottish campuses to deliver highquality learning and teaching to contribute to the continued development of the programmes offered to students and to develop external engagement endeavours in association (and as appropriate) with the Academic Schools in Edinburgh Dubai Galashiels and Malaysia.

Job Description

The successful candidate will possess a broad practical and theoretical knowledge of a range of topics within the spheres of 21^st Century Design but we are particularly interested in receiving applications from those candidates with practical expertise in the full Adobe software suite Artificial Intelligence Design Ethics its place in todays business world and current uses of design with AI within for example the areas of Branding Marketing and Promotion Design Management and Innovation and Interior Architecture. Postholders will play a key role in connecting with our internal and external stakeholders to embed Design with AI practices and principles into the curriculum. They will lead or oversee (as necessary) the development of programmes and the creation of new courses to support industry facing practices and student employability. Preference will be given to candidates who also have research interests in these areas and the potential to publish in high quality scholarly journals.

Teaching and research should be grounded in 21^stcentury design studies with appropriate input from historical theoretical and practical perspectives. Given the broad fastmoving and collaborative nature of todays industries and associated technologies we expect the successful individual to work proactively within and across the traditional discipline boundaries. We also expect the successful applicant to cooperatively contribute to teaching existing courses as well as collaboratively create new ones across the campuses where and as it benefits the student experience.

The role will be based at the Universitys campus in Dubai. Courses and programmes will be delivered in English and so fluency in English is essential. An induction programme will be delivered to all new academic staff on HeriotWatts standards and values and to give practical experience on preparation delivery and assessment of teaching.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Undertake teaching and assessment duties on academic programmes. Support colleagues inThe School of Textiles and Designand other Schools at HeriotWatt University in the delivery of courses and other activities to support the delivery of HWUs aims.
• Develop relevant materials in appropriate formats for the future of design as a discipline. Contribute to the content design and delivery of the curriculum and the quality of teaching and learning in consultation with colleagues and within the international structures and mechanisms established by the University. Review teaching design and delivery by obtaining and analysing feedback from students and peers. Support the accreditation processes of professional bodies.
• Mentor and supervise students including PhD students (as appropriate) providing effective well documented and timely feedback both formative and summative. Provide pastoral support recognising when to refer a student for further support. Play a key role in the delivery and support of an excellent student learning and living experience at HWU.
• Develop the level of subject expertise in line with latest development in business enterprise scholarship research and or innovation and ensure these developments are reflected in teaching materials and methods.
• Build and conduct scholarship or research in one or more of the Design and or Dubai Campus areas at internationally competitive levels.
• Develop and maintain strong links with creative design industries external organisations and the education sector.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in the UK at other campuses and with external networks both for the exchange of information to share learning and to form relationships for future collaboration. Conduct and engage in peer review of teaching and research locally nationally and internationally.
• Undertake a proactive role in promoting and marketing design at the University ensuring the effective recruitment of students and the achievement of recruitment targets. Play a full role in Open Days and other student recruitment events. Play a full role in research impact community events and public engagement.
• Undertake leadership and administrative tasks associated with programme and course planning preparation for examination boards and progression boards etc as instructed. Participate in relevant committees. Associate Professors will be expected to undertake additional leadership and management responsibilities. Associate Professors are also expected to publish and engage in high quality research submit to the REF and engage in funded research projects.
• Undertake continuous professional development (CPD) and participate in staff development activities.

Education and Qualification

Essential

• PhD Masters Degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Teaching experience
• Experience of reviewing and updating teaching materials
• Clear communicator with good presentation skills explaining concepts well.
• Well developed knowledge and understanding of contemporary AI practices across creative or design businesses and practices.
• Research Experience
• Fluent (verbal and written) in English
• An ability to apply knowledge acquired from research or professional practices into teaching materials and methods.
• Willingness and potential to identify and develop independent /collaborative portfolio of research and scholarship

Desirable

• Member of appropriate professional body
• Teaching qualification or in the process of obtaining one or be committed to achieving this within two years of appointment.
• Teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Experience for maintaining and developing new links with industry.
• Strong understanding of industry needs and the skills required by graduates for employability.
• Evidence of interdisciplinary practice
• Flexible in approach with excellent communication digital literacy and report writing skills and be willing to adapt to the duties associated with the role.
• Mentoring and personal tutor experience and PhD supervision
• Sole authored and or coauthored conference papers or journal articles
• Funded research experience independent and or team based.
• International or national Peer Reviewing of research.

About HeriotWatt

With a history dating back to 1821 HeriotWatt University has established a reputation for worldclass teaching and professionally relevant leadingedge research and enterprise which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.

We are a vibrant forwardlooking university well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our is also Scotlands international university with an unsurpassed international incountry presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30000 students in 143 countries worldwide have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the most significant international student cohort in Scotland.

At HeriotWatt weve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership where our researchers teachers staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.

We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our focus on careers delivers results and weve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.

In addition to the Edinburgh campus we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders Orkney Dubai and Malaysia. For all our campuses we aim to provide stimulating supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research where staff and students can excel. At HeriotWatt we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities. Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to values are:

• Belong
• Collaborate
• Inspire
• Celebrate

As a learning living and working institution we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of HeriotWatt University. They represent what binds us together as a university community and help us to become the best at what we do. For full details on our university please view our website to Apply

Interested applicants must submit via the HeriotWatt online recruitment system aCover letterdescribing their interest and suitability for the post and an updated CV.

At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.

Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with wellbeing and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.

Learn more about our benefits here:Our Dubai Campus HeriotWatt University ()

HeriotWatt University Dubai is (Commission for Academic Accreditation) CAA Licensed; therefore successful candidates will need to either provide terminal degrees attested from a UAE institution accredited by the CAA or if the degree is not from a UAE Institution the candidate will need to have MoE (Ministry of Education) Equivalency. More info on attestation can be found here on the MoE website.The candidate is responsible for getting their degree attestations done and these should be completed within six months of joining.

The appointment is conditional upon successful completion of all Labour and Immigration formalities.