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  • Research School Irregular

    Published: Saturday, 04 September 2021

    A newsletter for PGR

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    Sign Up to TA for Fall 2021

    The Department is currently recruiting Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) for the upcoming academic year, and we invite all PGRs to apply. The GTA role is a great way to develop your professional and interpersonal skills, gain technical experience in a specific subject, and build a network outside your research group.

    The first step to applying is to submit your expertise through the online GTA recruitment tool. All GTAs need to complete this step, even if you’ve been a GTA previously or have agreed with a course unit leader to work on a particular unit, as this will allow us to match your expertise to specific course unit requirements. Therefore if you’re interested in being a GTA over semester 1, please log in and submit you expertise as soon as possible (note that a separate call will go out for semester 2 later in the year).

    Once the skills from all PGRs have been submitted, we will allocate GTAs to course units and communicate a timetable detailing your teaching and learning commitments over the semester 1. You will also be given opportunities to attend specific training courses leading towards HEA accreditation, with more details available via the FSE GTA Hub.

    Please do get in contact if you have any questions about the process or the GTA role, either now or over the course of the semester. Viktor <viktor.schlegel@manchester.ac.uk> and Oliver <oliver.rhodes@manchester.ac.uk> are available for scheduling and administrative. Bijan <bijan.parsia@manchester.ac.uk> is available for well-being and progression interaction issues. All are available for pedagogic discussion and any problems that might arise.

    This will be a challenging year due to extremely high student numbers and the ongoing effects of the pandemic. We expanded the number of GTA academic leads from 1 to 3 specifically to increase our support for our invaluable GTAs. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you are having difficulties or have  something great to share.

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