Many postdocs are keen to get involved with teaching at the University, and there are a number of different opportunities to do that.
Teaching students at the University of Cambridge
Finding opportunities to teach undergraduates at the University typically requires you to be proactive and make approaches to those responsible for teaching in departments and Colleges.
You may be able to contribute to teaching in departments beyond your own, where there are related topics – you can find the full timetable of lectures in all subjects here.
Undergraduates at Cambridge are taught in two ways:
- Lectures – these are organised in departments, contact your department’s teaching office or the academic responsible for teaching in your department to ask about opportunities to deliver lectures.
- Supervisions (teaching groups of 2-6 students) – these are primarily organised by Colleges, contact Directors of Studies in Colleges or lecturers in your department to ask about opportunities to run supervisions.
Further teaching opportunities/resources
Cambridge University Press and Assessment and the University of Cambridge are now recruiting for online course tutors for their new partnership, Cambridge Advance Online.
They are seeking subject matter experts in a number of disciplinary areas. See details below for current recruitment calls.
The courses will run for 6-8 weeks, four times a year. The time commitment is approximately 10-12 hours per week, reducing over time as tutors deliver more frequently.
The remuneration for each run of the course will be £4000, with additional remuneration for assistance in course design.
Read the further particulars here
Current recruitment calls:
No current calls.
The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) runs courses for those working towards a degree, mid-career professionals, international students, and lifelong and later life learners.
ICE courses are taught by a panel of tutors, including Cambridge academics, academics from other universities, and professional experts.
They are currently looking to recruit new Panel Tutors to deliver teaching on their Certificate in Immunology and Certificate in Genetics.
Please contact Dr Tom Monie if you are interested in delivering sessions in Lent and Easter Terms 2023 on any of the following topics:
- sepsis
- acute and chronic inflammation
- cancer immunology
- medical genetics
- the Human Genome Project
- genome browsing with ENSEMBL.
Teaching will be delivered over Zoom on various Saturdays depending on the course schedule. Payment will be made at the standard Institute rates.
The Bioinformatics Training Facility of the School of Biological Sciences offers a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate hands-on training courses, focused on bioinformatics and computational biology.
These training activities aim at enabling life scientists to effectively handle and interpret biological data.
These are mainly taught by researchers from the University of Cambridge, with contributions from collaborators from bioinformatics institutes in Cambridge and further afield.
The Facility is always looking for postdocs who are working in bioinformatics and are interested in developing training skills.
Interested postdocs can join their existing pool of trainers, and contribute to delivering existing courses, as well as propose new courses, based on their interests.
Please contact the Bioinformatics Team for more information.
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is seeking postdocs for teaching opportunities on the global sustainability challenges facing business (including finance), society and the built environment.
The opportunities are primarily for supervising and tutoring on part-time postgraduate courses for mid-career professionals.
Individuals should have some experience of working in or with business, or with the built environment, and will be able to articulate the systemic nature of the sustainability challenges that we face.
The Institute is seeking to enlarge its pool of supervisors for the MSt in Sustainability Leadership for both Business and the Built Environment, and would be pleased to hear from you if your research is of relevance (or transferable) to some aspect of the sustainability agenda.
In addition, the Institute is seeking tutors to lead students through the shorter assignments on the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business and the MSt Sustainability Leadership.
Please email masters@cisl.cam.ac.uk and attach a CV if you would like to discuss upcoming opportunities at the Institute.
The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) supports staff who teach at the University by providing training, developing networks, and funding innovation.
CCTL provides workshops on different aspects of teaching, as well as accredited educational development programmes at a range of levels for those who teach Cambridge students.
Find out more about their workshops and programmes