Part-Time Lecturer - Narrative Environments
Part-Time Lecturer - Narrative Environments
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School/Unit: Creative Futures Academy
Post Title & Subject Area: Part-Time Lecturer - Narrative Environments
Total Hours: 150 part-time hours
Rate of Pay: 66.51 per hour NCAD Part-Time Lecturer Hourly Rate
Location: Fully online and/or occasional on-campus workshops and activities
Please outline your interests in the work professional practice and any other relevant experience in your application.
NCAD seeks to commission the research design and delivery of a CFA Creative Futures 2 Module as an elective in Studio (3rd year) and an L9 Professional Certificate in Narrative Environments (comprised of 1 x 5 credit L9 module) that will also form part of the wider curriculum of the Creative Futures Academy offered by the College.
CFA
The Creative Futures Academy (detailshere) provides opportunities for postgraduate students and professionals to undertake focused learning usually in concentrated or short format courses and often scheduled in ways that allow part time study to be combined flexibly with professional practice.
The Creative Futures 2 Elective - Narrative Environments L8 (5-credit module) will be offered to studio 3rd year learners in Spring Trimester 2 of the 2025/26 academic year.
The Professional Certificate in Narrative Environments L9 (5-credit programme) will be offered to prospective learners in Autumn Trimester 1 of the 2026/27 academic year.
Narrative Environments
Every environment has the potential to tell a story; they are spatial platforms scenarios and interfaces for sharing information conducting research hosting events making installations and staging experiences. Curating and designing environments to communicate and encompass stories rhetoric and discourse in a specific way and to convey a particularly distinct narrative has always been a core challenge of creative practice.
These courses (a BA elective and Prof Certificate) seek to enable learners to create immersive and interactive narrative environments that propose model simulate plan construct curate and/or perform alternative architectural artistic curatorial and design practices.
The UG Creative Futures elective module seek to empower creative practitioners from a range of disciplines with the sustainable and adaptable skills and attributes that they will require to shape the future of Irelands creative sector.
Learners will be supported to use a variety of media including text/writing drawing digital modelling installation and exhibition curation and interpretation to tell stories and engage with the theoretical historical and cultural contexts that frame the practice of creating spaces exhibitions installations and built environments.
Task 1: Development & Delivery: 78 hours
Studio CFA Elective Creative Futures
Research design and delivery of a CFA Creative Futures 2 Module Studio Elective.
This module will be delivered to 3rd-year undergraduate students as an L8 CFA elective in Spring Trimester 2 of the academic year 2025/26.
Estimated Student Effort Hours: 100hrs structured learning
Staff Delivery Hours: 78 hours broken down into the following components:
24 hours Development
42 hours Teaching - half day per week for 10 weeks.
12 hours Assessment
Period: Spring Trimester 2 in academic year 2025/26 - (Jan 2026)
Cohort: L8 25-30 students per elective option (cross-college art and design including incoming Erasmus students)
Review of the module - The findings will inform the content of the Professional Certificate.
Completion date
Research and curriculum design needs to be completed no later than December 19th 2026. Elective Module Delivery January - May 2026.
The Professional Certificate in Narrative Environments
Task 2: Development: 35 hours
Research design a L9 Professional Certificate in Narrative Environments (comprising 1 x 5 credit L9 module) that will also form part of the wider curriculum of the Creative Futures Academy offered by the College.
Stage 1 Professional Certificate
Design Principles - Narrative Environments
Development: 35 hours
Timeline: August - December 2026
Research existing coursesoffered by other institutions (nationally and internationally) - in terms of publicity content and format.
Curriculum design- the preparation of teaching materials. This will include summary outlines of briefs/lectures / seminars / workshops; reading lists and/or other useful resources which can be shared with learners both before and after the course runs; proposals of guest speakers; technical and specialist training exercises as well as expected deliverables/assignments to be completed at the end of each module. It will be essential to secure early agreement from the NCAD / CFA Academic Development team for the proposed content of the module.
Authorship ofpublicitytexts and sourcing visual material which can be used to promote the Professional Certificate using the CFAs communication channels. Visual material will need to be copyright free / cleared.
Expected learner profile
Current students registered at NCAD or other HEIs designers architects artists curators makers educators and possibly other professionals working in the creative industries.
While CFA courses are professional learning opportunities learners willnotneed to demonstrate high levels of professional/academic achievement at the time of application.
Some learners may undertake CFA learning as a means of ongoing professional development often with the support of their employers.
Completion date
This work (research and curriculum design) needs to be completed for validation no later than December 19th 2026.
The Professional Certificate in Narrative Environments
Timeline: September - December 2026
Task 3: Delivery: 37 hours - Autumn Trimester 1 of the 2026/27 academic year.
Stage 1 Professional Certificate
Design Principles - Narrative Environments
Teaching - 20 contact hours
Student Learning - 100 Hours
Assessment Administration and Case Study Report- 17 hours
Course format
The 5-credit course content to be delivered to 12-25 learners.
- It will be designed to be delivered in a range of potential formats including
- hybrid and or fully remote in which learners can fully participate at a distance
- in collaboration with industry partners
Active learning and collaborative peer learning are strongly encouraged to reflect the professional experience and ambitions of CFA learners.
The modules/programme may include one or two high-profile guest speakers but we expect that a lead tutor or team of tutors will teach and coordinate the majority of the content.
The NCAD / CFA Academic Development team will provide a series of templates which will provide different possible learning formats (such as an intensive one or two week workshop a day symposium or a weekly 3-hour class etc). The person/s /s undertaking this work will also be supported by a member of the NCAD / CFA Academic Development team who can provide feedback during the research and design of the course.
Payment
The person (s) commissioned to undertake this work will be paid 150 part-time hours.
Task 1: Development & Delivery: 78 hours
Review of the module
Task 2: Development: 35 hours
Task 3: Delivery: 37 hours
Completion date
Delivery to be completed by Autumn Trimester 1 of the 2026/27 academic year.
In the case of existing NCAD EPL / FT staff backfill hours will be available to release the time required.
Employment Type
Part-Time
