Teaching Associate in Creative Writing (Part-time, Fixed term)

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English
Location:  College Park
Wage: 

£33,966 to £45,585
every year pro-rata relying on abilities and expertise. Wage development past this scale is topic to efficiency.
Closing Date:  Monday 04 December 2023
Reference:  ARTS566323

Do you’ve gotten instructing specialisation in creative writing?  We need to appoint a Educating Affiliate in Inventive Writing to work in our workforce within the Faculty of English on the College of Nottingham.  You’ll be a part of us on a fixed-term, half time instructing contract for 18 hours per week from 1st January to 30th June 2024. 

We recognise that what helps us succeed is the completely different concepts and experiences of colleagues throughout our Faculty, who come from a mixture of cultures and backgrounds. Collectively, we’re welcoming, inspiring and supportive of everybody. We consider in numerous tutorial and analysis groups that can present one of the best alternatives to be progressive and ahead pondering. We’re subsequently in search of functions from candidates whose background, expertise and identification broadens and enhances the variety of our present workforce and would notably welcome functions from black and minority ethnic students. We’re presently working to decolonise our instructing curriculum and perceive that having a mixture of opinions, broad views, lived experiences and other ways of fixing issues enhances our day-to-day work and enriches our tutorial group. We strongly endorse Athena SWAN  rules, and we’ve got dedication in any respect ranges of our organisation to handle gender inequality. It’s our mission to make sure equal alternatives, greatest working practices and truthful insurance policies for all.

You’ll be required to show artistic writing and have a specialism in writing fiction.  You’ll contribute to a second-year module, Fiction: Types and Conventions; and a postgraduate module, Studying to Publish. You would possibly even be requested to contribute to different instructing in artistic writing as acceptable inside the workload allocation of the position.

You’ll have a PhD (or equal) in a related space of creative writing in addition to have proof of your capacity to show at undergraduate and postgraduate ranges, masking the above areas. Expertise of distance studying instructing is fascinating. 

Mentoring in the direction of additional profession development will likely be supplied all through the interval of the submit. 

You could find additional details about our Faculty at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english  and https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/working-here.aspx

Choice Course of 

The interview course of will embrace a presentation of instructing to members of an interview panel and a proper interview. 

When you have any casual enquiries, our Head of Drama and Inventive Writing, Dr Matthew Welton, will likely be blissful to debate these with you: [email protected]

Please be aware that functions despatched on to this e mail tackle is not going to be accepted.

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Our College is a supportive, inclusive, caring and constructive group. We welcome these of various cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – certainly this very range is important to our success, it’s elementary to our values and enriches life on campus. We welcome functions from UK, Europe and from throughout the globe. For extra data on the assist we provide our worldwide colleagues, see our Transferring to Nottingham pages.

Candidates for this submit will likely be thought-about on an equal foundation, topic to the related permission to work within the UK as outlined by the necessities set out by UK Visas & Immigration.  Please go to: https://www.gov.uk/authorities/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration for extra data.

For profitable worldwide candidates, we offer monetary assist on your visa and the immigration well being surcharge, plus an interest-free mortgage to assist cowl the price of immigration-related bills for any dependents accompanying you to the UK. For extra data please see our Monetary assist for visas and the immigration well being surcharge webpages.