Teaching Mobility

Staff interested in teaching at Queen Mary should contact their home institution’s International Office to check if there is an agreement in their subject area and if there is funding available for their visit.

If there is an inter-institutional agreement in place covering teaching staff exchanges, the member of staff can request their home institution to nominate them for a staff teaching visit to Queen Mary.

The member of staff and the relevant academic department at Queen Mary must mutually agree on a teaching programme before any visit takes place. The member of staff should arrange this directly with the academic contact in the respective academic department at Queen Mary. If an incoming staff member wishes to dispense teaching to undergraduate or postgraduate taught students at Queen Mary, they should consult the academic calendar to ensure that the visit takes place during one of our teaching weeks (and to avoid visits outside of term time or during reading weeks). The sending institution provides all contractual paperwork to the visiting staff member.

The Global Partnerships and Opportunities (GPO) team does not manage incoming staff visits. It nevertheless requests confirmation of approved teaching visits for reference purposes. Therefore, once an incoming teaching visit has been approved, the GPO team requests confirmation (duly signed Staff Teaching Mobility Agreement) for the respective visit to be sent by email to w.leugers@qmul.ac.uk.

Deadlines

Staff who are interested in coming to Queen Mary on a teaching mobility visit should inquire with their home institution if internal application deadlines exist or if a procedure of open calls is in place for selection to participate.

There is no specific deadline set by Queen Mary by when an incoming staff member needs to be nominated. However, an inter-intuitional agreement needs to be in place in advance of the visit for the purpose of the visiting staff member receiving funding. New agreements need to follow Queen Mary’s internal collaborative provision procedures and this process takes a minimum of three months from start to finish.

Accommodation on campus

Accommodation may be available for staff from partner institutions on our Mile End campus in one of our staff flats.

UK Visa and Immigration information 

It remains the sole responsibility of any visiting staff to prepare for a visit to the UK to 1) determine their individual visa requirements and 2) to secure any necessary visa.

Please refer to the following web link for full advice: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y.

To supplement the documentation for any eventual purposes of a visa, the visiting staff member can request a letter of invitation from the GPO. This letter may be used for a visa application (if applicable), along with a letter that participants are urged to request from their home/sending institution that a) confirms the anticipated visit and b) serves as proof and duration of employment in the home country.

Accessibility, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

Queen Mary is committed to promoting accessibility, equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring that all staff and visitors are treated fairly and without discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender, disability or other protected characteristics.

Visiting staff with disabilities, dyslexia, long-term health conditions, caring responsibilities or other circumstances that may affect their participation are encouraged to share any relevant support or occupational health requirements with their host department as early as possible. This will enable the department and the GPO team at Queen Mary to liaise with the Occupational Health Service in advance of the visit and make reasonable efforts to ensure that appropriate support and arrangements are in place.

Further information

Accessibility: http://www.disabledgo.com/organisations/queen-mary-university-of-london

Equality and Diversity: http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/equality