Lecturer in DanceUniversity

0.8FTE

2 year fixed term contract

About the school

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.

About the roles

Our teaching is intensely practical, with real world partnerships, projects and productions.  We strive to support our students to get out into the world with the right skills to help them 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’re now looking for new people to join our team: you will be teaching across our BA Dance courses, as well as into BA Musical Theatre, engaging our students with their ever-evolving craft and the arts sector more widely. You’ll join a team of experts and teach on courses which have been recently newly refined to bring out the best in our students.

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

Commercial Dance

Dance Teaching & Pedagogy

Choreography

We want 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 and your teaching experience will be a bonus. Teaching would begin in January 2026.

To find out more about what it’s like to work in the School of Creative Arts, please click  here

How to apply

To apply please click on APPLY at the bottom of this page, you will be asked to submit a CV along with a Supporting Statement that addresses how you meet the essential criteria or complete the attached application form. CVs alone will not be considered.

Contact details

If you would like to have an informal conversation about what kind of practitioner we’re looking for, please contact Rachael Bock, Senior Lecturer and Academic Course Leader in Dance at [email protected]

Or Fiona Curran, Deputy Head of School, SoACE, [email protected]

Key dates

Closing date, 20/11/26

Interview date, 10/12/26

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

To avoid disappointment please apply early, should we find a suitable candidate we will close the advert.

For more information about out benefits and working for the University please click here

£39,560 to £44,352 pa pro rata, Grade 7