Job: Lecturer in Computing (Computer Games Development)

Taken from: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIW105/lecturer-in-computing-computer-games-development/ 

Lecturer in Computing (Computer Games Development)

The University of Northampton

Location:	Northampton
Salary:	£31,644 to £35,597
Hours:	Full Time
Contract:	Permanent

Placed on:	30th May 2014
Closes:	15th June 2014
Job Ref:	UN1407

Location Avenue Campus

Documents

• Lecturer in Games Design JD.pdf
  (PDF, 166.86kb)

The School is organised into three Programme Areas/Departments. This post will be located in the Computing & Immersive Technologies department. The area has a strong technical computing teaching and learning profile at under and postgraduate levels, and we now seek to promote and develop our Computer Games Development program.  As such, we require a lecturer appointment to help support and develop the work within the Computing and Immersive Technologies disciplinary area and more particularly games development (for mobile, 3D, serious and immersive games technology). Experience of developing and delivering games using state-of-art game engines such as Unity3D, CRYEngine, UDK is essential.

The games development course is a new and developing provision for the school.  Along with it sister course found in the School of The Arts, BA Games Art, this area is becoming a very exciting and popular choice for new applicants.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide leadership and management in the development of their discipline and to lecture at both under and postgraduate levels. There is also an expectation that the successful applicant will contribute to Research, Knowledge Transfer and/or Consultancy within the Department of Computing & Immersive Technologies. Some International travel may be expected for between 1 and 2 weeks per year.

The University of Northampton as an employer strives to achieve diversity among its staff, which reflects the communities it serves. 

For more details or to apply go to: https://jobs.northampton.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-computing-computer-games-development-188498.html

For more details about the publications and research activity within the department go to: http://computingnorthampton.blogspot.co.uk/p/publication-list-university-of.html 

University to create MMOG with students

BSc Computer Games Development lead by Martyn Simmons is the focus of an article by the Magazine EDGE about plans to develop a massively multiplayer game ( MMOG). The MMOG is just one of the aspects considered, a game involving Stoke Bruene Canal is discussed as is the Games courses multidisciplinary nature.

BSc  Computer Games Development
HND Computer Games Development


Also mentioned in the article is NVision and the advantages of having on-site immersive environment equipment.

For more details see:  University of Northampton to create MMOG with students
The article can be found at: http://www.edge-online.com/get-into-games/university-of-northampton-to-create-mmog-with-students/2/

Computing Courses

BSc and HND Computing Provision (click on the links below for more details of the courses)

• BEng/MEng Computing (Computer Networks Engineering)
• BEng/MEng Computing (Computer Systems Engineering) 

• BSc (Hons) Computing (also available part-time)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Graphics and Visualisation)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Internet Technology and Security)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Mobile Computing)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Software Engineering)
• BSc (Hons) Computing - One Year Top-Up 
• BSc  Computer Games Development
• HND Computing (Compute​r Net​works Engineering)
• HND Computing (Computer Systems Engineering)
• HND Computing (Graphics and Visualisation)
• HND Computing (Internet Tech​nolog​y and Security)
• HND Computing (Mobile Computing)
• HND Computing (Software Engine​ering) 
• HND Com​puting

The University of Northampton's, Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies offers five courses within the MSc Computing postgraduate provision (shown below) all available either part-time or full-time. 

• MSc Computing
• MSc Computing (Internet Technology and Security)
• MSc Computing (Computer Networks Engineering)
• MSc Computing (Software Engineering)
• MSc Computing (Immersive Technologies)

The contents are the opinion of the author(s) and not necessarily the view of the University of Northampton.