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BECOME A LEARNING DEMONSTRATOR
Being a Learning Demonstrator is your chance to gain some valuable experience whilst earning earn some extra money. Not only that, it looks great on your CV!
The use of postgraduate students for assisting in teaching undergraduate modules has long been a feature of the University. It is a challenging and rewarding role for postgraduates to gain experience in fields other than their research activities, ideal for continued professional development. Research Councils and other studentship awarding bodies recognise the need for students to participate in such activities.
The main purpose of the role is to assist academic staff/the module leader to introduce or expand understanding of a specific area for undergraduate students. Teaching Assistants also provide assistance to academic staff in their routine teaching duties.
Full guidance, mentorship and monitoring will be provided by an appropriate member of academic staff, typically the module leader.
If you are a Learning Demonstrator in Semester 1, you are kept on the list of Learning Demonstrators for Semester 2. If you will no longer be available to work, make sure you advise PGR-scienceengineering@swansea.ac.uk as soon as you know your availability – otherwise you will be allocated to modules.
PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU APPLY:
The Learning Demonstrator position is only open to Postgraduate Students from all FSE subjects unless you are a Geography or Computer Science student, in which case 3rd year Undergraduate students can also apply (first and second year students cannot apply).
If you have already agreed with an academic to undertake Learning Demonstrator work, please make sure you have signed up and applied to be a Learning Demonstrator! You will not be able to be paid for work you undertake whilst you do not have a Learning Demonstrator contract.
Even if you have agreed to work on a specific module you may not be assigned this module. Demonstrators are limited to 6 hours work per week (excluding marking/field trips, which in the majority of cases is limited to 12) – please keep this in mind if you are popular and are being requested across multiple modules!
Becoming a demonstrator also does not automatically guarantee work – where we try our best to allocate work to every active demonstrator, often there is an abundance of demonstrators up against limited module requests.
