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PGTA - Arts and Sciences
Arts and Sciences are looking for PGTAs. Start date: 22 September 2025. Deadline to apply: 23:59, Friday 20th June 2025.
Department: Arts and Sciences
Modules: Please refer to the job description for specific details as there are a number of modules available
Number of hours: Please refer to the job description for specific details as hours vary by module
Start date: 22 September 2025
Duration: Term 1, Term 2 or Terms 1 and 2
Grade: PGTA (Grade 6)
Location: London
Application deadline: 23:59, Friday 20th June 2025
Job description
The Department of Arts and Sciences wishes to make a number of appointments for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants for the 2025/26 academic year. These appointments are required to work on the BASc Arts and Sciences degrees based at the Bloomsbury campus, the BA Creative Arts and Humanities degree based at the UCL East campus in Stratford and the MASc in Creative Health degree which is also based at the UCL East campus. We are also offering some marking only opportunities across each of these programmes.
The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in our BASC-coded modules, working with the academic modules leads through the delivery of small group teaching for students taking modules in the Arts and Sciences Department.
Main duties of the post are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the course lecturer, provision of feedback to students, attendance reporting, coursework assessment and examination marking. PGTAs will be given training in support of their roles.
PGTAs are expected to be able to commit be present on the Bloomsbury / UCL East campus for the full duration of the term(s) for which teaching is allocated and during the examination period as required. We will not be offering any online seminar classes in 2025/26.
Please see attached Job Description.
Key responsibilities
- Teaching assistance through the facilitation of seminars and/or workshops;
- Class preparation and meeting with lecturers/module organisers;
- After-class contact time with students, including time-tabled office hours;
- Marking students' work;
- Giving feedback to students
Requirements for role
Applicants must be working towards a PhD and in at least the second year of study by the time teaching begins (the only excpetion to this is applicants for the BASC0063 module who can be educated to Masters level only).
We can only consider applications from students still completing their PhD and registered as a student at the time a contract would begin. Applicants with a completed and awarded PhD are not eligible to apply.
How to apply
Please apply via the main UCL jobs page at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs