The
Department of Sociology is pleased to offer three funded Graduate Teaching
Assistantships for October 2014 entry to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
programme.
These Graduate Teaching Assistantships
are available for full-time registration and are payable as a full
UK/EU tuition fee waiver for four years subject to annual progress review. The
successful applicants will also receive an annual stipend and salary
(worth £13,726 each year) as well as an annual Training Grant (worth £750 each
year) to support appropriate research and development expenses.
About Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Graduate Teaching Assistantships allow
research students to fund their PhD through part-time teaching
work with the University.
A Graduate Teaching Assistant is responsible
to the Head of Department and is expected to undertake teaching-related
duties within the Department - not normally exceeding eight contact hours
per week - while undertaking research leading to a PhD.
Approximately 80% of their time will be spent on
their doctoral research and 20% on their GTA responsibilities. Training is
provided to help Graduate Teaching Assistants develop their teaching
related skills and enhance their professional competencies.
Research Areas and Supervision
These Graduate Teaching Assistantships are
open to applicants wishing to pursue doctoral research in any area
of sociology that can be supervised by our academic staff - including:
- Political
Sociology, Social Movements, and Civil Society
- Wellbeing
and Health
- Social
Theory
- Language
and Interaction
- Migration
and Ethnicity
- Gender,
Sexuality, Consumption, and the Body
- Advanced
Research Methods (Conversation Analysis and Computer Simulation)
- Racism
and Social Theory
- Human-Non
Human Relations
- Figurational
Sociology
- Problematised
Consumption
- Sport
and Leisure
Entry Requirements
- First
class or upper second class undergraduate degree or an equivalent
overseas qualification in a relevant subject*
- It
is expected that applicants will also hold a Masters degree in a
relevant subject*
- Standard English language requirements
- Available
to suitable UK/EU and International (i.e., outside the EU) applicants -
please note though that the awards cover tuition fees at the UK/EU rate
only; international applicants (and those not eligible to pay UK/EU
tuition fees) must demonstrate at the time of their application that they
can fund the difference in tuition fee rates
- Available
for full-time registration only
- Applicants
must be able to start in October 2014
Closing
date for receipt of applications is 31 March 2014.
For more
information and application please visit the University of Leicester Graduate Teaching Assistantships in Sociology page.
