Arts and Sciences Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

About us

University College London (UCL) is a multi-faculty college of the University of London with a population of over 52,000 students, from more than 150 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Education, Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, Laws, Life Sciences and Clinical Sciences (including Medicine), Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering Sciences. UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected in performance in a range of rankings and tables, and is ranked 9th in the world, 5th in Europe and 2nd in London in the QS World University Rankings 2025.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women.

The UCL Arts and Sciences (UASc) department is the home for the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BASc) which is the UK's leading interdisciplinary degree, covering arts, social sciences and sciences degree. BASc combines the breadth of interdisciplinary study across the arts and sciences with the opportunity to specialise in one or two key subject areas. There is also a postgraduate taught sister programme to UCL’s Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BASc), the new MASc in Creative Health which combines the breadth of interdisciplinary study across the arts and sciences, with the opportunity to specialise in the role of non-clinical, community-led, socially engaged approaches to public health.

UCL Arts and Sciences also launched a new undergraduate degree, the Bachelor in Creative Arts and Humanities (BACAH), with its first intake 2023/24. This degree is homed at UCL East and brings together critical humanities thinking with practices of writing, performance and moving images. BACAH further develops the UASc departments’ interdisciplinarity by bringing together critical humanities thinking with critical practice.

The Department has a doctoral programme in Interdisciplinary Societies, Arts and Sciences which accepted its first students in the 2023/24 academic year and is aiming to grow to 20 doctoral students.

About the role

The Department of Arts and Sciences wishes to make a number of appointments for Senior 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 or on the BA Creative Arts and Humanities degree based at the UCL East campus in Stratford. We are also offering some marking only opportunities.

Please refer to the job description for the full list of module teaching and marking opportunities available.

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 or UCL East campus for the BASc modules 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.

About you

Applicants must be in at least the second year of their PhD studies at the start of any contract with us (22 September 2025 for term 1 or 5 January 2026 for term 2). The only exception to this is for applicants applying for the BASC0063 Performance Practice 1: Body, Space, Expression module who only need to be educated to Masters level.

PhD students from outside UCL can also apply, but priority for appointments will go to current UCL PhD students.

The application form will allow you to apply for more than one module per term but we will only appoint for a maximum of one BASC-coded module per teaching term. You should indicate all modules you're interested in at the application stage.

Please check the job description and person specification for additional knowledge or experience required for some modules. All contracts are inclusive of teaching hours, preparation hours, office hours and marking. Some experience of undergraduate teaching is desirable.

Please note that we can only consider applications from students still completing their PhD and registered as a student at the time a contract would begin (see dates above). Applicants with a completed and awarded PhD are not eligible to apply.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday, and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.