PGTA - SSEES (Slavonic and East European Studies)

Job description

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) has several exciting Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) opportunities available for postgraduate research (PGR) students to teach on our undergraduate modules, starting in September 2025. Modules across SSEES’s Economics & Business, History, and Politics & Sociology programme areas are recruiting.

PGTAs are principally engaged to facilitate and lead undergraduate tutorials, with a typical tutorial group consisting of about 15 students. It is anticipated that PGTAs will lead up to 4 one-hour tutorial / seminar groups per week per term, usually on a single module, although this will vary by module / subject area according to teaching requirements. Module Leaders provide detailed guidance and support to PGTAs on their modules.

PGTAs may also be asked to undertake formative and summative assessment and feedback, as specified in the opportunities document.

Further information can be found in the 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

Academic knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject and the SSEES region, together with a commitment to supporting the learning of our undergraduate students, are essential. Prior teaching experience is not required, but is helpful.

To be eligible to be considered for a PGTA position at SSEES you must be a registered PGR student at UCL or another UK university at the start of the 25/26 academic year and be entering your 2nd or later year of study; have the right to work in the United Kingdom; and have the approval of your principal PhD supervisor.

How to apply

Applications should email a copy of their CV to ssees.people@ucl.ac.uk AND complete a Microsoft Form here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=_oivH5ipW0yTySEKEdmlwo4FvItVSvhEvVWU8F6KnyJUM1hYM0dKUlhMRUk3V1ZVODBYSTVEVjBCWC4u&route=shorturl