PGTA - Culture, Communication and Media

Job description

In this role, you will undertake a range of activities, including:

• Acting as a main point of contact for tutorial class teaching for one or more courses.
• Designing and preparing teaching material within the overall module framework, this will involve proactively planning delivery of teaching, generating material for tutorials and liaising with other members of the module team to share best practice and ensure consistency.
• Teaching of methods and skills and material that students find particularly challenging in lectures; this may include the presentation of model answers, demonstrating techniques and participating in field trips.
• Contributing to the marking of student assessments, where requested by the module leader and under the guidance of academic staff.
• Tailoring formative feedback as needed to ensure students clearly understand what is required of them.

Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.

Please find further information in the attached Job Description.

Key responsibilities

• Teaching assistance through the facilitation of seminars and/or workshops;
• After-class contact time with students, including time-tabled office hours;
• Giving feedback to students;
• Class preparation and meeting with lecturers/module organisers;
• Marking students' work

Requirements for role

This post is open only to current UCL students.

In addition, you must be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in a related field.

Working towards a PhD (on completion of the PhD, you will no longer be eligible to participate in this PGTA scheme)

How to apply

To apply, submit a CV and cover letter outlining how you meet the person specification. Your responses to all the selection criteria form an essential part of the selection process and a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. 

In the first line of your supporting statement, you must indicate which of the following programmes you are applying for:

• MA Art Education, Culture and Practice
• MA Education and Technology 
• MA Digital Media (Critical Studies, Education, Production)
• ALTIC (MA Applied Linguistics, MA TESOL, MA Intercultural Communication)

Failure to indicate the MA programme you are applying for may also result in your application being rejected.

Applications should be emailed to ioe.recruitment@ucl.ac.uk  by 11.59pm on 25th May 2025 with the email subject: 

PGTA _ MA Media- then the name of the module:

• MA Art Education, Culture and Practice
• MA Education and Technology
• MA Digital Media (Critical Studies, Education, Production) or
• ALTIC (MA Applied Linguistics, MA TESOL, MA Intercultural Communication)