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.
