About the job:
The Lecturer in Games Technology position offers an exceptional opportunity to join MediaLab at Queen's University Belfast, a research institute within the School of Arts, English and Languages. This role sits at the intersection of creative practice, technical innovation, and academic research, with a remit to extend MediaLab's capabilities into engineering, health simulation, advanced media production, and game development. You'll balance research excellence with teaching innovation, developing your reputation as an expert in games technology while contributing to the interdisciplinary research activities that define MediaLab's distinctive approach.
This position offers significant autonomy and opportunity for leadership across research, teaching, and administrative domains. You'll develop and deliver innovative teaching materials across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, lead research funding applications, and contribute to strategic planning for MediaLab's future direction. The role provides substantial scope for external engagement, including collaboration with industry partners, development of community outreach programmes, and participation in transnational education delivery. With MediaLab's focus on cutting-edge virtual production, real-time technologies, and immersive media, you'll work within a supportive, collaborative environment equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. This position is ideal for an ambitious academic who wants to shape the future of games technology education and research while contributing to the creative industries ecosystem in Northern Ireland and beyond.
About the person:
As Lecturer in Games Technology, you'll assume responsibility across three core areas: research, teaching, and administration. Your research activities will include developing innovative proposals, leading funding bids, publishing in refereed journals, and presenting at national and international conferences. You'll sustain a track record of research outputs suitable for REF submission while exploring practice-based and proof-of-concept approaches that bridge academic inquiry with industry application.
Essential Criteria:
Please refer to the Candidate Information below for the full list of essential and desirable criteria. To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.
Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
What we offer:
Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/.
Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.
If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport.
Candidate Information