Postgraduate researchers who teach
[Intro] Teaching experience is an excellent way of developing your communication skills, disseminating your research, and giving you experience that can support your career goals.
Queen Mary offers support for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), teaching associates, demonstrators and PGRs students who teach in a variety of roles.
The Brilliant Club Scholars Programme
The Centre for Early Career Researchers partners with The Brilliant Club, an award-winning university access charity, to offer paid teaching opportunities to postgraduate researcher students. The Brilliant Club recruit and train postgraduate researcher students to support disadvantaged school pupils in accessing the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.
The Brilliant Club provides training to postgraduate researcher students in widening participation, research communication and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically rigorous programmes to small groups of pupils in state schools across the UK.
For more information, please register for a Brilliant Club Scholars Programme information session.
Queen Mary Academy
The Queen Mary Academy provides educational training and development for postgraduate researcher students who teach through their Postgraduate Educators Programme.
Workshops
- Teach your first session – a workshop for those entirely new to teaching.
- GTA development workshops: these workshops are designed for GTAs and focus on key aspects of teaching and learning:
Teaching recognition
Queen Mary Academy has two routes through which you can gain Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (AFHEA) in recognition of your teaching practice:
AFHEA Accelerators
The AFHEA Accelerator is a mentoring programme for postgraduate research students who want to apply for AFHEA in order to gain formal recognition for teaching activities. It provides a workshop and one-to-one support to enable you to write reflectively about your teaching experience.