Teaching Associate Sheffield, England
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity in our Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) for two Teaching Associates to join our team. With proven, exceptional teaching abilities in the field of digital humanities (broadly defined), you will play a key role in the delivery of modules on our postgraduate degrees, MA Digital Culture & Communication and MA Cultural Data Management & Communication. You will contribute to team-taught core and option modules that focus on digital humanities methods, theories and practices. You will play an active role in the life of the Digital Humanities Institute, providing pastoral support to tutees, supervising dissertations, marking student work, and undertaking leadership roles that relate to academic skills and employability. You will also be expected to contribute to the Digital Humanities Institute’s presence within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the wider University.
The Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) is one of the UK’s leading research institutes for digital humanities, with a national and international reputation of nearly 30 years. It hosts and delivers a large portfolio of UKRI funded projects, and currently delivers postgraduate programmes to a large and diverse student cohort. See http://www.dhi.ac.uk and https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dhi
The University of Sheffield is one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
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This post is full time and fixed-term for 24 months with a closing date for applications of 1st September 2023.
