Lecturer in Music

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Weekly Working Hours: 30 Fixed Term Contract: End Date: 30 September 2027. The successful candidate will be expected to start on 1st September 2026. Welsh Language: Not Applicable Change your career, change lives The Open University is the UK's largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education. Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link). About the Role The post-holder will work in a team that presents and produces innovative learning resources across our music curriculum, focusing on ethnomusicology and music analysis. The post-holder may also be asked to contribute to curriculum in music technology and music history at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. We welcome applications from those with teaching and/or research experience in topics including ethnomusicology, musicology, music technology, or music theory and analysis, but would especially welcome expertise in ethnographic and analytical approaches to music. Music staff often teach in an interdisciplinary fashion and in collaboration with colleagues across the School of Arts & Humanities. In joining Music, you would thus also be joining a dynamic and interdisciplinary school environment. You would be expected to participate in and contribute to the school's curriculum agenda, work across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and take on teaching within subjects which may be outside of your research specialisms. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences comprises: School of Arts & Humanities School of Social Sciences & Global Studies School of Psychology & Counselling School of Creative Industries The Faculty is the largest and most diverse at The Open University, with some 50,000 students studying our modules with excellent completion rates and consistently outstanding student satisfaction ratings. Noted for the strength of our interdisciplinary approaches, our scholars of international standing teach and research a very wide range of topics and themes in specific subject areas, recognized as world class or internationally excellent in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021, and having a direct and profound influence on our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. To find out more about the Faculty's teaching, learning and research, please visit: http://fass.open.ac.uk/ The School of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Music Music is an integral part of the School of Arts and Humanities, which consists of approximately 100 academics, including Staff Tutors, organised into five disciplines: History, Art History, English & Creative Writing, Classical Studies, and Music. In addition to offering single honours qualifications at undergraduate and postgraduate level, the School is proud of its long history of interdisciplinary teaching, epitomised by its BA Arts & Humanities, and its interdisciplinary Level 1 (first-year) modules. We also offer named degrees, including a BA in Music. The School hosts several research centres, has recorded strong performances in REF2021, and actively supports the research and scholarship of its academic staff. To find out more about the School, visit the web page: http://fass.open.ac.uk/schools/school-arts-humanities . Key Responsibilities The person appointed will be expected to contribute to teaching in the School, Faculty and University in the following ways: Teaching Contribute to the teams developing, planning, delivering and updating high quality and successful curriculum at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Music. Prepare distance learning materials suitable for the teaching and learning methodologies used by The Open University. Contribute to the presentation of Open University music modules. This includes: evaluating and offering feedback on proposals for MA-level projects, contributing to teaching, and setting assessments and examinations; organising and chairing seminars (some student-facing and some public-facing) on current topics or readings in musicology, ethnomusicology and popular music studies; participating in examination boards; teaching via student discussion forums; and liaising with other staff members (including tutors and student-support staff) in pursuit of excellence in teaching and the student experience. Administration, Management and other duties Engage with appropriate academic leadership and administrative tasks appropriate to the role and play an active role within the Faculty, as required by the Head of School. Comply with Statutory Requirements, Codes of Practice, University Policies and Health and Safety arrangements. About You Essential Criteria Have a PhD (or equivalent) in ethnomusicology or a closely related subject, completed or close to completed ('close to completed' is defined as having submitted your thesi

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