Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing: Playwriting, Screenwriting and Adaptation
- Employer
- ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £36,438 per annum pro rata - including London Allowance
- Closing date
- 6 Jun 2022
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- Academic Discipline
- Languages, Literature & Linguistics, Arts & Humanities
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Teaching Fellowships
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Part Time
Job Details
Department of English
Location: Egham
Salary: £36,438 per annum pro rata - including London Allowance
Post Type: Part Time
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Monday 06 June 2022
Reference: 0522-212
Fixed Term, Part time (10 Months, 0.5 FTE)
Applications are invited for the post of Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing: Playwriting, Screenwriting and Adaptation in the Department of English.
The successful candidate will join a team of prize-winning writers in the department, including seven Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.
You will have a national profile as an author with a track record of writing for stage and/or screen, and experience of teaching creative writing at undergraduate level. You will have demonstrated the ability to work with others in teaching and/or administration. You will be committed to inclusive teaching and diversifying the curriculum and have a strong commitment to pastoral support and mentoring.
Candidates will be expected to provide teaching in creative writing at BA levels, with an emphasis on playwriting and screenwriting. The post holder will also be required to teach a course on the theory and critical history of screen adaptations for English and Creative Writing students and to contribute to co-curricular enrichment activities.
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including generous annual leave and training and development opportunities. The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Prof. Ruth Livesey, Head of Department via ruth.livesey@rhul.ac.uk.
To view further details of this post and to apply please visit https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk. For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk.
The College is unable to obtain permission to work in the UK for this post. Therefore all applicants must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK if they wish to apply.
Please quote the reference: 0522-212
Closing Date: Midnight, 6 June 2022
Interview Date: TBC
Company
One of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities.
Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s top 20 universities, ranked 129 globally (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2015-16). We sit within the top 25% of UK universities for research that is rated world leading or internationally recognised and at 89%, our 2015 National Student Survey satisfaction rating is the highest of the University of London institutions.
The university has 21 academic departments and schools spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, economics and law. We combine our world-class research and excellence in teaching with a global perspective, creating a close-knit community that inspires success. With some 9,000 students learning from internationally renowned academics and researchers, ours is a unique culture, where our students and colleagues feel recognised as individuals. We have a unique best-of-both-worlds location; a safe, leafy campus in Egham, Surrey, less than 40 minutes by train from central London and just seven miles from Heathrow airport, creating the environment where our community thrives.
- Mini-site
- ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)01784 434455
- Location
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EGHAM HILL
EGHAM
SURREY
TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
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