Lecturer in TESOL/Applied Linguistics

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

You will be a member of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, which is located in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media within the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is committed to excellence in teaching and research across multidisciplinary programmes that incorporate language and communication, music, and art, design and museology.

Further details about CCM can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/culture-communication-and-media.

The UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics has as its mission to promote the UCL IOE as a centre of international excellence in research and teaching in applied linguistics.

We are seeking an exceptional candidate for the post of Lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TESOL.

You will contribute to teaching and teaching-related activities on courses offered by the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society and to offer specialist supervision to research students (MPhil, EdD and PhD).

In particular, you will develop a postgraduate module on Language Teaching and Technology and contribute to teaching in one or more of the following postgraduate modules: Fundamentals of Second and Foreign Language Teaching; Language Testing and Assessment, Materials Development for Language Teaching, Research Methods, and Second Language Acquisition.

With a doctorate in TESOL, Applied Linguistics or related area you will have a track record of teaching in Higher Education and experience in teaching a second/foreign language

In addition, you will have significant achievements and a proven track-record through research publications in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics, including a record of relevant and high-quality publications suitable for inclusion in future Research Excellence Framework assessments

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

This post is available from 1^st September 2025.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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