ITL Fellowship Projects

We’re delighted to relaunch the ITL Fellowships following a revamp of the previous model. ITL Fellowships provide you with the time, focus and support to work on a teaching and learning project which will lead to a lasting change that improves student experience or outcomes (directly or indirectly) across the University.

ITL Fellows will be appointed on a 0.4 FTE for a two-year secondment to work on a teaching and learning project in one of the University’s priority areas. Four priority areas have been identified:

1. Community-engaged learning: education that has mutual benefit with the community (also referred to as service learning).
2. The teaching-research nexus: how our research can inform our teaching, and our teaching can inform our research.
3. Curriculum interventions for student success: what can we do to address differential attainment and completion?
4. Artificial intelligence (one per Faculty - further details to follow)

This opportunity is open to all staff, including academic, Professional Services and Technical Services colleagues. Joint Fellowships (e.g. 0.4FTE shared by two colleagues) will also be considered.

During the Fellowship, you will:

• work alongside a paid Student Partner Intern, a Contributor Group and the Teaching Excellence team (ITL)
• have access to project funding
• be provided with support and development in leading change
• be supported to embed a Theory of Change approach from the outset of each project.

Fellows will be appointed through a recruitment process, with applications opening in January 2025, with successful candidates announced in early 2025. Fellows will begin the Fellowship role in September 2025.

Fellows are expected to deliver a change that provides a tangible benefit to our students. To that end, appointed Fellows will be supported in embedding a Theory of Change approach from the outset of each project, ensuring concrete action plans and monitoring/impact plans can be developed and implemented effectively. This approach ensures that projects have clear goals, measurable outcomes, and a robust framework for evaluating their impact on student experience and learning.

Contributor groups

Recognising the wealth of excellent work already underway within our priority areas, ITL Fellows will play a crucial role in amplifying these efforts by connecting existing communities of practice and interest groups with the strategic ITL Fellowship Project, creating contributor groups.

Contributor groups bring together colleagues from across the University who are already working in the field or who wish to contribute, according to their capacity to do so. These groups will serve as hubs of innovation, fostering collaboration, sharing best practices, and will create lasting networks of teaching and learning excellence across the university.

If you are interested in, or are already working on, one of the key priority areas and would like to join a Contributor Group, please complete the Expression of Interest form.

• Expression of interest - ITL Fellows projects contributor groups

How to apply

ITL Fellows will be appointed to lead a project in each of the priority areas through a competitive process. The role is expected to open for applications in early January 2025. Applications should be submitted via the University's standard recruitment process. Interviews will take place in late January/early Februrary 2025. There will be six roles available.

Further information and answers to frequently asked questions will be added below as soon as it becomes available.

Frequently asked questions