Lecturer (Teaching): Academic Writing Development Adviser

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. For more information see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/centre-for-engineering-education

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to design and deliver high-quality, engaging teaching that builds upon students' existing knowledge and perspectives while supporting engineering students at UCL to develop writing skills that they can usefully employ within academic or creative scientific and technical contexts.

The postholder will play a key role in equipping students with the written communication tools essential for success in their degree courses and future professional practice. As part of the Integrated Engineering Programme within UCL’s Centre for Engineering Education, the Lecturer will contribute to an interdisciplinary team focused on innovative, inclusive, and contextualised education that enhances students’ ability to think, write, and communicate effectively as engineers.

The postholder will provide inclusive and accessible support across core writing skills required in academic and reflective writing, critical reading and analysis, note taking, developing technical argument or writing impact statements.

About you

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Postgraduate Qualification (MSc/PhD) in a relevant field (e.g. English, Creative Writing, Applied Linguistics, Education, Science Communication, or a related discipline) and / or experience
• Ability to design and adapt teaching to suit diverse learners, including international students and those with different levels of writing confidence
• Commitment to improving student experience and supporting student success
• Understanding of the specific challenges of academic and creative writing in STEM/engineering disciplines

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

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 ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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