Lecturer (Teaching)

About us

University College London (UCL)

UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a community of over 16,000 staff and 50,000 students from 150 different countries.

For more information see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about

UCL East

In our most significant development since our founding, UCL has expanded to East London. Situated on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, UCL East is dedicated to disruptive thinking and discovery across disciplines and beyond academic walls, to find solutions to the biggest challenges for future living.

UCL Engineering

Engineering Sciences at UCL comprises ten academic departments that undertake research and teaching across a wide range of disciplines. For more information see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering.

Centre for Engineering Education (CEE)

The Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) is a joint centre between the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the UCL Institute of Education. It aims to provide research and curriculum development to deliver improved engineering education worldwide. For more information see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/centre-for-engineering-education

About the Role

The post-holder will sit within UCL Engineering’s Centre for Engineering Education and will work with colleagues across the faculty to support the continuous development and delivery of the Centre’s Engineering Foundation Year and Integrated Engineering Programme curricula.

The post-holder will have expertise in curriculum development and in teaching and supporting students, ideally at both Foundation and Higher Education levels. The post-holder will be required to build relationships with key department contacts and to help promote and recruit students for the EFY whilst providing support for students in their transition to their chosen undergraduate disciplinary degrees within the departments of the UCL Engineering Faculty.

About you

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Postgraduate Qualification (MSc/PhD) in an engineering science discipline or hold equivalent qualifications and / or experience
• Experience of Curriculum, Programme and/or Module Leadership and Development
• Experience of developing and delivering project-based learning and teaching at a level appropriate for Foundation and/or Year 1 Engineering students

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document.

All applications must include a supporting statement telling us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. Applications without a supporting statement will be rejected.

If you have any queries about the role or application process, have any technical issues, or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online, please contact the staffing team at

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity

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.

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