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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Interior Design
October 2026
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Employer:University of Gloucestershire Position:Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Interior Design Salary:Grade 7/8 £39,560 – £57,666 per annum Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent Work location:Cheltenham, England Lecturer & Senior Lecturer position available Unlock Bonus Job Resource
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Candidates will be expected to work on campus teaching or engaged with students, assisting with recruitment, outreach and open days at least 4 days per week. Working from home will be limited to one day a week and this can be used for admin, research and non-student facing activities.
About the school
The School of Arts, Culture and Environment (SoACE) 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, SoACE currently has over 2200 students and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as PhD’s in Humanities, Journalism, Film & TV, Art & Design, Performing Arts, Photography, and Architecture, Construction & Environment.
The Interior Design Course at the University of Gloucestershire has established itself as one of the UK’s top HE providers of sustainable Interior Design and was ranked 15th by the Guardian League Tables in 2027 and is also the 2025 winner of the BIID Interior Design Student competition. The course is highly innovative and seeks to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of a career within this dynamic, global sector. We support all our students in acquiring all the necessary creative design skills, be they in digital design or artisanal, bespoke making. Students have an aptitude for agility and enterprise which increasingly underpin career opportunities across the interior design and related sectors and are encouraged to be client facing and entrepreneurial from the start of their BA journey.
About the role
You will be an expert in digital design or the practice of making as it relates to various aspects of the interior design working world. Excellent practical skills and design will be at the forefront of your thinking. You will recognise that structured teaching and effective student support are central to the success of our programme and be able to create an engaging learning environment in which students are inspired by design to rise to the challenge of dealing with clients in a wide variety of interiors settings. You will share the team’s commitment to innovation in design thinking, which has recently seen the course rise in the Guardian League Tables in 2027.
Our students benefit from excellent studio spaces, a course team made up of experts in the field, and from guests, associates and field trips, which make them into rounded, current and creative interior designers.
You will teach a wide variety of skills including in the digital realm – Sketch UP, Vector works, rendering, firefly, InDesign, Illustrator, Canva, Procreate, 3D printing and Lazer cutting.
Making – Printmaking, sewing, modelmaking, ceramics, drawing, upholstery, embroidery, lamp shade making.