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Race and Spatial Justice Positive Action Recruitment Focus
The Race and Spatial Justice Positive Action Recruitment Focus aims to promote scholarship on race and spatial justice within the built environment through education and research, and through a staff and student community that is representative and diverse.
At The Bartlett, we are committed to fostering equal opportunities and ensuring fairness and inclusivity in our recruitment practices. We welcome researchers and educators from diverse fields and geographies to become part of our community at The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment.
By joining our community, you will have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and make a meaningful impact in advancing race and spatial justice within the built environment.
We welcome talented individuals who share our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
View our current and past job vacancies.
The Bartlett and diversity
Aligned with The Bartlett's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy, the Recruitment Focus aims to enhance the ethnic diversity of our staff in accordance with Section 159 of the Equality Act. As part of our concerted efforts, Black and Minority Ethnic applicants who fulfil all essential criteria will be given automatic consideration for an interview, reflecting UCL's positive action and inclusive recruitment practices.
We actively encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in the workforce at UCL.
Support post-appointment
Our aim is to foster an inclusive and supportive environment where individuals thrive academically, professionally and personally. Tailored support is offered to staff in our community, including opportunities to engage with promotion workshops and clinics, equality, diversity, and inclusion training, support from our forum for racialised minorities/global majority, and the B.Queer network.
We offer platforms including Bartlett Alternative and Inclusive Spaces to showcase research and teaching activities from diverse perspectives. We continuously seek feedback to ensure our support systems meet the evolving needs of our community.
Past vacancies
- Senior Research Fellow in Equality Diversity and Inclusion within the Built Environment
The post holder will work with the Vice Dean Research and the Vice Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to develop, design and deliver a body of high-quality, strategically important research into Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the Built Environment on behalf of the Faculty as 60% of the role. For the remaining 40% of the role, the post holder will define and pursue their own independent research addressing EDI and the built environment in relation to their areas of academic interest and expertise.
- Associate Professorship in Professional Practice
This position is based with The Bartlett School of Architecture. The post is of strategic importance to The Bartlett School of Architecture and includes the cross-school leadership role of Director of Professional Practice, and the role of Programme Director of our ARB/RIBA Part 3 programmes. The postholder will be expected to undertake both roles until our next RIBA visit in 5 years, then reviewed for continuation. The role incorporates teaching, research and enabling functions. The postholder will be expected to integrate questions of race, cultural identity and/ or racial/ spatial justice in relation to the field of professional practice.
- Lecturer in Global Urbanism
Set within UCL’s The Bartlett, Faculty of The Built Environment, Urban Laboratory, the Lecturer in Global Urbanism possesses a strong and international publication record in urban studies and is committed to collaborative and transdisciplinary education and research. This position will play a key role in the delivery of UCL Urban Laboratory’s new MASc in Global Urbanism at Bartlett UCL East.
- Professor of Sustainable Resources and Industrial Strategies, and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
Set within UCL’s Faculty of The Built Environment, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER), this position leads research on Resource Use and the Industrial Strategy. With a background in the socio-economic dimensions of industrial ecology and multi-criteria assessments, this post brings new perspectives to areas such as health, sustainable consumption, green chemistry, or new economic thinking. This position also undertakes ground-breaking research on racial, spatial and environmental equity associated with access to resources and resource distribution.
- Lecturer in Business and Sustainable Development
The position is set within UCL’s Faculty of The Built Environment, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR). The post works with, and catalyses relationships amongst existing staff at the ISR, BSEER and across the university, and examines how business is responding, and should respond, to the environmental, social and economic challenges facing human societies and businesses as they strive to achieve sustainable development. This role has an unrivalled opportunity to undertake ground-breaking research and education on racial, spatial, and environmental equity associated with fairness, due diligence along supply chains, access to resources, and resource distribution.
- Lecturer in Biodiversity and Climate Change for Bio-integrated Design
This post sits in Bio-Integrated Design, a cross-disciplinary research and postgraduate teaching platform based at the Bartlett School of Architecture (BSA) and run conjointly with the Department of Biochemical Engineering. It seeks to address the impact of our current climate crisis and reduction of biodiversity by creating new sustainable solutions for our built environment. The post aims to explore new practices that promote equitable access to resources while developing material innovation; promote environmental justice; and the fostering of inclusive approaches to ecosystem thinking within the design and construction industry.
- Lecturer in Economics and Finance of Real Estate
The Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management Lecturer in Economics and Finance Real Estate contributes to the development of a new MSc in Real Estate Economics and Investment Analysis, and teaches real estate economics and finance across the curriculum. This post focuses on race and spatial justice in real estate research and teaching, and provides an opportunity to innovate in pedagogy and curriculum content while developing research which speaks directly to the issues of race, justice, and equity.
- Lecturer – Environmental and Spatial Equity
The post sits in the MA in Architecture and Historic Urban Environments (MAHUE) programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture (BSA). The post-holder will actively pursue a pioneering research agenda in and at the intersection of racial, spatial and environmental justice that supports both the Faculty’s Commitment to Change and the programme’s ambitious sustainable agenda. Through a strong programme of research-led teaching, the role will support staff and students in identifying and articulating the effects of racial, spatial and environmental inequity in historic urban environments globally and through a multidisciplinary approach. This will incorporate the development of design strategies to confront, tackle and reverse the harm caused by these and other types of historic injustices.
- Associate Professor of Architectural History, Race, and Spatial Justice
The post sits in The Bartlett School of Architecture (BSA). The post-holder will actively pursue a pioneering research agenda as a senior and leading role in all stages of the production of the Survey of London series, through research, writing and editing, including project and staff management. The role requires working in partnership with two other senior historians for the overall management and direction of the Survey of London, as well as editor and project manager for individual volumes, ensuring successful and timely completion in keeping within agreed frameworks.
- Associate Professor of Climate Justice
The Bartlett School of Architecture is launching a Just Environments Cluster Hire, recruiting a cohort of early- and mid-career academics with expertise in spatial justice and climate justice and their intersectionality. The cohort will consist of an Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, an Associate Professor of Climate Justice, and three Design+ positions at either Assistant Professor or Lecturer level. The Spatial Justice and Climate Justice roles will participate in the department’s new shared governance leadership structure, leveraging their expertise in just environments to innovate within our curricula and to engage external collaborators both locally and globally.
The post-holder will be involved in collaborative engagement across the School of Architecture, teaching studio and piloting climate justice elective modules with the capacity to travel across our twenty-four programmes. The post-holder will also be required to contribute to the development of the curricula of our accredited programmes in accordance with the proposed ARB changes. You will develop international quality research or design research in the discipline through the lens of climate justice and identify sources of research/grant funding, internally and externally including for major multi-year projects leading to the role of Principal Investigator. As the BSA Associate Professor of Climate Justice, the post holder will carry out enabling duties as are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the job, as requested by the Director of School. This will include developing and strengthening the school’s relationship across the faculty and wider UCL and may involve contributing to modules on relevant and complimentary programmes.
- Associate Professor of Spatial Justice
The Bartlett School of Architecture is launching a Just Environments Cluster Hire, recruiting a cohort of early- and mid-career academics with expertise in spatial justice and climate justice and their intersectionality. The cohort will consist of an Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, an Associate Professor of Climate Justice, and three Design+ positions at either Assistant Professor or Lecturer level. The Spatial Justice and Climate Justice roles will participate in the department’s new shared governance leadership structure, leveraging their expertise in just environments to innovate within our curricula and to engage external collaborators both locally and globally.
The post-holder will be involved in collaborative engagement across the School of Architecture, teaching studio and piloting spatial justice elective modules with the capacity to travel across our twenty-four programmes. The post-holder will also be required to contribute to the development of the curricula of our accredited programmes in accordance with the proposed ARB changes. You will develop international quality research or design research in the discipline through the lens of social justice and identify sources of research/grant funding, internally and externally including for major multi-year projects leading to the role of Principal Investigator. As the BSA Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, the post holder will carry out enabling duties as are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the job, as requested by the Director of School. This will include developing and strengthening the school’s relationship across the faculty and wider UCL and may involve contributing to modules on relevant and complimentary programmes.
- Design+ Associate Professor or Lecturer
The Bartlett School of Architecture is launching a Just Environments Cluster Hire, recruiting a cohort of early- and mid-career academics with expertise in spatial justice and climate justice and their intersectionality. The cohort will consist of an Associate Professor of Spatial Justice, an Associate Professor of Climate Justice, and three Design+ positions at either Assistant Professor or Lecturer level.
The three Design+ roles seek individuals with a strong track-record of innovative architectural design pedagogy, plus the ability to develop and teach modules in an area of specialization – design media, the history and theory of design, design technology, etc. Collectively, members of the cluster will demonstrate a commitment to a more just built environment, by leveraging their expertise in one or more of the following areas: race; colonization, de-colonization, and post-coloniality; global climate crisis and the decolonizing and decarbonizing of architectural pedagogy and practice; community engagement and participatory design; restorative justice; cultural representation and diasporic identity; and material practices of resistance from resource extraction, to adaptive reuse, to lifecycle design. Working collaboratively as a cluster confers an immediate sense of cohesion and cohort identity, providing a space for pedagogical innovation and experimentation around critical disciplinary concerns.
