Application to become a NADFAS Accredited Lecturer

Please read the following carefully as it will help you understand our organisation, its aims, and how we select accredited lecturers.

Founded almost 50 years ago, the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts (NADFAS) aims to provide education opportunities in the arts through lectures and study days, and to help conserve our heritage through our volunteers.There are over 400 Societies throughout the UK, Europe, and New Zealand, and a sister association in Australia. Societies have their own annual programme of lectures, study days, visits and tours, selecting their lecturers from the Directory of Lecturers, a compilation of NADFAS's accredited lecturers.

We can only select lecturers who speak on the arts as defined as follows: "The study of the history, social history, techniques and materials, design and manufacture and collections of: architecture, archaeology, painting, prints, sculpture, textiles, furniture, furnishings, costume, glass and ceramics, enamel, metalwork, garden design and installation art; as well as the lives and influences of the artists, architects, craftsmen and patrons involved. Music, dance, theatre and literature can also play an important part in illustrating art."

Before completing and submitting this form, it is essential that you visit a NADFAS Society (unless you are already a member) in order to better understand our Societies and their audiences.

Please select all that apply
Please list qualification, institution, and date
We expect our lecturers to have at least 3 years' experience lecturing to adult audiences, and using digital technology. Our Societies expect the lectures to be well structured, articulately delivered (without reading verbatim from notes) and with excellent quality images. Please describe your lecturing experience over the last few years and how you match this criteria
Please list your specialist subjects, how do these relate to NADFAS's remit of the arts?
What lecture titles do you offer? Please explain how each of these relates to NADFAS's remit of the arts
We ask for the names, professional positions and contact details of two referees who have heard you lecture during the past 12 months and can comment on your lecturing skills; they should be professional people and must not include relatives or close family friends.
This space is for you to include details of any other information you think relevant to your application.

Next Stages

1. Submit the completed form
2. If we wish to further your application we will take up your references
3. On receipt of successful references, we will ask you to provide an opportunity for a NADFAS observer to attend a one hour illustrated lecture that you are giving to an audience of at least 50 people. The lecture should be related to your proffered lecture titles. Please be aware that we can only arrange one observation
4. The final stage, provided all other stages have been passed successfully, is to invite you to deliver a 20 minute, illustrated, mini-lecture to a panel of NADFAS representatives at NADFAS House in London
5. Successful applicants will be listed as freelance lecturers in the Directory for selection for their programmes by Societies and invited to participate in the NADFAS Directory Day on Wednesday 7 March 2018.

I confirm that the information I have supplied is accurate to the best of my knowledge and understand that my details will be held on computer for administrative purposes only with NADFAS, its Member Societies, Tour NADFAS and NADFAS Enterprises Ltd.