News and information for all postgraduate researchers at the University of York.
The Academic Skills Community are advertising for GTAs for the Maths Skills Centre with no fixed deadline. If we have applications and no vacancy we will hold them on file until a position becomes available. We will let them know this at time of application. For more information and to apply, go to the Current teaching … Continue reading Graduate Teaching Assistant Vacancies
Thank you to everyone who came to our recent Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) Induction. It was wonderful to meet so many of you and welcome you to the university! We’d really appreciate it if you could spare a couple of minutes to fill out our Induction Feedback Form – your thoughts on this year’s event will … Continue reading PGR Induction – Resources
Deadline: 1 August 2022 We understand from departments that Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) may be being approached for support by students in need or distress, or encountering them unexpectedly in the routine course of your teaching, even as you are strictly speaking not supposed to be offering wellbeing support to students. Not only is this … Continue reading GTAs and Student Wellbeing and Support: Focus Group Invitation
Applications are open for University of York PGRs interested in being a GTA in the Sociology department for the next academic year. They’re looking for GTAs to facilitate seminars on their preferred module from any of the four first-year undergraduate modules: Cultivating a Sociological Imagination; Sociology of Crime and Deviance; Introduction to Sociological Theory; Introducing Social Psychology. They can … Continue reading Teaching in Sociology
The Department of Sociology is holding a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) recruitment event for you to find out more about vacancies, meet current GTAs, find out how to apply and ask any questions. Sociology GTA recruitment eventFriday 13 May 2-3pmLMB 002a Sociology GTA vacancies and the recruitment event are open to any PGR in the … Continue reading Interested in being a GTA in the Sociology department next year?
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically … Continue reading Become a Brilliant Club tutor – PhD and ECR opportunities – 2022-23
The University of York’s Access and Outreach team and Academic Support Office are looking to recruit a number of Postgraduate students to support the delivery of various online outreach activities for post-16 students for the summer of 2022. All opportunities are designed to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in Higher Education to reach … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Academic Lecture Presenter and Seminar Leader
Deadline: Tuesday 3 May 2022, 5pmHourly pay: £23.89 (teaching and marking)Hours of work: Varies according to the specific module The Department of Language & Linguistic Science is seeking to fill GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) positions for various modules offered across the BA curriculum (C-, I- and H-level) in 2022-23. The relevant (provisional) modules are listed … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in Language & Linguistic Science 2022-23
Access and Outreach are looking for tutors and seminar leaders for their YorJourney programme for post-16 students during the summer of 2022. YorJourney is designed to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in Higher Education to reach their full potential. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to provide crucial support to students as … Continue reading Paid opportunities with Access and Outreach
The Writing Centre is seeking to recruit two additional GTA writing tutors. Tutors provide 30-minute appointments (face-to-face and online) to students from all disciplines who come to the Centre to discuss their writing. Advice relates to such areas as focus, structure, argument, citation and referencing, writing style, language and grammar. In addition, with more experience, … Continue reading The Writing Centre is looking for tutors