Postgraduate Teaching Assistant; PGTA - MA Sociology Cluster

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) - MA Sociology Cluster

r B16-02150 Professional Expertise Teaching, Teaching Support and Examination Support Department School of Education (B16) Location London Working Pattern Part time Salary £36,433-£41,833 Contract Type Fixed-term Working Type On site Available for Secondment No Closing Date 16-Jun-2026

About UCL Institute of Education

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The department of Education, Practice and Society (EPS) has specialists from a wide variety of disciplines including history, sociology and philosophy who undertake research to support education throughout the life course by contributing to economic, social and political debate as well as development in societies, nationally and internationally.

The department pioneers research collaborations with external partners to diversify the contribution that educational research can make academically, professionally and practically for individuals and communities.

The work of the department strives to provide solutions to current and emerging pressure points in societies, such as economic change and social injustice, by creating networks and partnerships to support knowledge transfer between education, work and communities.

The department of Education, Practice and Society has an exciting research portfolio of projects.

The Department of EPS wishes to make appointments for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants for the autumn, spring and summer terms,  academic year.

The purpose of the PGTA role is to support teaching and learning in our Sociology Cluster MA (covering the MA programmes Sociology of Education, Social Justice and Education and Policy Studies in Education). This will involve working with the academic module leads to deliver small group teaching for students taking the above modules in the EPS Department.

Main duties of the post are tutorial class teaching, regular meetings with the module team, provision of feedback to students, providing support sessions for students (e.g. office hours / drop ins), managing on-line discussion forums, attendance reporting, and, in some cases, coursework and other forms of assessment.

Teaching Assistants will be given training in support of their roles.

These roles are available from September 2026 to UCL (PGR) students who are registered from September 2026. The length of the contract will depend on the length of the applicant’s doctoral studies and will be determined at appointment stage.

Please be aware that PGR students may only be employed up to 180 hours in total as a PGTA across all UCL programmes.

The successful candidate will be educated to Masters degree level (or having equivalent experience), in a Sociology of Education related field and working towards a relevant postgraduate degree (PhD)  will have specialist knowledge appropriate to the module taught and experience of managing virtual learning environments including Moodle design and Talis reading lists. In addition, you will have experience of teaching and supporting students at various levels and have the ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Please make sure that you state clearly in your application which module(s) you feel that you could teach on. It may not be possible to offer you a position on your preferred module.

Please include your CV and do not submit anything else (including examples of your work, references etc).

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

• 41 Days holiday:…