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Workshop facilitator for Enhancing Research Cultures Project

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1088585


University of Warwick


01/12/2024


Other - See Job


40 hours, spread across the academic year.


Not Applicable

Pay


£17.02


£2.05

Description

Role
Warwick’s Enhancing Research cultures is launching an exciting new project on supporting international PG students in the Faculty of Arts. We seek a Graduate Teaching Assistant from School of Modern Languages and Cultures, to join our project team and help us run inter-departmental as well as SMLC specific workshops that enable international PG students to better succeed in their research and studies. You will report to the project’s Principle Investigator, Dr. Nancy Haijing Jiang. The inter-departmental workshops will run once twice a term, usually on Wednesdays from 17:00-19:00. A light dinner will be provided for facilitators and attendees. Department specific workshops will also run twice a term and will be held at the convenience of the GTA. For each workshop, you will either be assisting the facilitator leading the session or, in some cases, leading the session yourself. The contract of 40 hours includes:

  • 5 inter-departmental workshops (10 hours) and some preparation time (15 hours [3 hours preparation per workshop]). 
  • 6 team meetings (6 hours) 
  • Helping to write-up project report (9 hours) 
Informal enquiries about the role can be addressed to: haijing.jiang@warwick.ac.uk

Duties and responsibilities

  • Presence at inter-departmental workshops twice a term.
  • Leading some workshops.
  • Planning some workshop content.
  • Participate in team meetings.
  • Help to write-up project report.
  • Reporting to Nancy Haijing Jiang.

Skills and experience
Essential Criteria

  • A current PG student in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, PGR or PGT.
  • Experience, interest in, and/or enthusiasm for working with international PG students.
  • Available for in-person facilitation on Wednesdays (as indicated above).
  • Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
  • Excellent networking skills.
Desirable Criteria
  • Hold AFHEA or FHEA status (or be in the process of undertaking a teaching qualification, such as APP:PGR, which leads to AFHEA/FHEA status).
  • Personal experience of studying overseas.

Location
Warwick University campus

Additional information

  • Advert closing date: 31/10/2024.
  • Predicted interview date: 08/11/2024.

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