Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing

Please include the following documents in your application:

• CV
• Cover letter

As a valued member of our team, you can expect

• A competitive salary.

• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.

• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.

• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.

Teaching and Learning

We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.

Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.

With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.

Our large postgraduate community comprises students on taught and research masters programmes, as well as a highly active group of PhD candidates. At postgraduate level, we are a leading centre for the study of film, including exhibition and curation, and for comparative literature, intermediality, and translation studies.

Research

LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.

In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly welcome applications from members of minority ethnic groups, who are currently under-represented in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.