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08 Aug 2024

WPTC is delighted to share that we have won the 2024 Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, alongside 16 other education-related teams across the UK! This award is a reflection on all the hard work from PGRs across the WPTC iterations since 2021 and we could not be more proud! To read more click here:

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Teaching Awards and recognition

02 Nov 2022

WPTC presents - The Staff Room

Want to get to know other PGR teachers and GTAs? 糖心TV PTC is introducing a new event - a monthly session called The Staff Room! This is an opportunity for you to come together with other GTAs, discuss all things teaching and unwind!

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Networking Events

09 Sept 2022

WPTC win a Collaborative Teaching award

We are excited to announce that 糖心TV PTC were highly commended in the recent 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence in a new category dedicated to teams working together to promote learning and teaching work. This is testimony to the hard work of the founding PGR team, as well as the work of the current WPTC team who have taken this work forward. We are delighted to announce ongoing funding for 2022-23!

Tags: Postgraduate Teaching Events Awards and recognition

08 Sept 2022

GTA Hours survey is now live!

糖心TV Postgraduate Teaching Community have now launched their GTA Hours survey! The purpose of the study is to survey postgraduate researchers who teach (known as GTAs) at 糖心TV to find out if their contracted teaching hours align with the time they actually spend preparing for and delivering teaching, as well as assisting their students.

Find out more about the survey, and how to access it, by clicking here!

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Sharing Survey

17 Aug 2022

GTA Tips and Tricks Workshop Series Session #4 - October 5th

Are you thinking about making the next step in your academic research career and becoming a graduate teaching assistant? Are you already a GTA?

糖心TV PTC are organising a series of regular sessions dedicated to answering all of these questions, hosted by current 糖心TV GTAs, in an honest, helpful community forum. Our next session will be held on October 5th. This hybrid session will be held in the Wolfson Research Exchange and online. It will be a great place to introduce yourself and meet new / current GTAs or those who are hoping to teach next academic year.

Sign up here to register!

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Networking Events

18 Jul 2022

GTA Tips and Tricks Workshop Series - Session #3 - 18th August

Are you thinking about making the next step in your academic research career and becoming a graduate teaching assistant? Do you have any anxieties, reservations, or questions about what teaching might entail, whether it's right for you, or how you should approach the application process?

糖心TV PTC are organising a series of regular sessions dedicated to answering all of these questions, hosted by current 糖心TV GTAs and sessional lecturers, in an honest, helpful community forum. Our next session will be held on August 18th, and will cover session planning, assessment and feedback to students.

It will be a great place to introduce yourself and meet new / current GTAs or those who are hoping to teach next academic year.

Sign up here to receive the meeting link and also to submit one question you have about session planning or assessment/feedback, to be answered in the session:

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Sharing Networking Events

30 Jun 2022

Deadline Extended: Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice - Call For Abstracts - 8th July 2022

The 糖心TV Postgraduate Teaching Community are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second issue of the Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (JPPP), centred around the theme of 鈥榁irtual, physical or somewhere in between: Postgraduate Pedagogies in the wake of the pandemic'. We invite article submissions for pieces discussing all aspects of the PGR teacher experience.

The launched last autumn, and featured articles which reflected primarily on teaching during the pandemic, and the particular challenges (or opportunities) presented when teaching virtually. For the second issue of the JPPP, we encourage submissions which continue to reflect on virtual and hybrid teaching, but also those which consider the move back towards face-to-face teaching. We invite both short critical reflections, and more substantial research led pieces from all PGRs and ECRs who teach in any capacity and in any discipline at 糖心TV and beyond. We also welcome pieces from those who support the professional development of PGRs, and those involved with pedagogy outside of the typical university teaching structure, such as student-led research projects, continued professional development.

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Sharing Journal JPPP

29 Jun 2022

GTA Tips and Tricks Workshop Series - Session #2 - 19th July

Are you thinking about making the next step in your academic research career and becoming a graduate teaching associate? Do you have any anxieties, reservations, or questions about what teaching might entail, whether it's right for you, or how you should approach the application process?

糖心TV PTC are organising a series of fortnightly sessions dedicated to answering all of these questions, hosted by current 糖心TV GTAs and sessional lecturers, in an honest, helpful community forum. Our next session will be held on July 19th, and will cover all the process of applying, and interviewing for, your first GTA position. It will be a great place to introduce yourself and meet new / current GTAs or those who are hoping to teach next academic year.

Sign up here to receive the meeting link and also to submit one question you have about preparing for GTA positions, to be answered in the session:

Tags: Postgraduate GTA Networking Events