Queen Mary
University of London
GRADUATE TEACHING AWARDS APPLICATION FORM
Prior to completing the form below, please read the Guidance Notes below carefully.
GUIDANCE NOTES
The Department of Law seeks to award a limited number of Graduate Teaching
Assistantships (GTAs) to PhD students each year. This year the Department intends
to make three such awards.
The award will cover full home/EU fees and maintenance costs in line with Research
Council Rates. As such eligible overseas applicants will need to ensure they are able
to meet the fees short fall. Last year the award amounted to approximately £15,590.
GTAs are renewed annually (for the duration of the 3 year doctorate) on the basis of
the academic excellence of the candidates and the teaching needs of the department
at the time. The award is subject to satisfactory annual progress reports.
Graduate Teaching Assistants would be expected to undertake duties as follows:
4 hour teaching
2 office hours per week (over 24 weeks)
Invigilating of mid-sessional and final examinations when necessary
Marking written assignments and one mid-sessional examination for each of the
classes which they teach.
GTA’s will also be provided with teaching skills training.
ELIGIBILITY FOR THE AWARD
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Please note, GTA applicants must themselves already have an LLB qualification,
specifically a UK or other common law jurisdiction LLB or equivalent, so that they
are familiar with the teaching syllabus.
The award is for full time post-graduate PhD research students only.
The award is only open for applicants who want entry in September, as this is
when teaching begins and when the award will start to be paid.
As the GTA is a Department of Law award, your research proposals must relate
to the Department’s areas of teaching and research. Research areas include:
public international law; international human rights; public law; European Union
law; criminology, legal theory and legal history; equity, trusts and property law;
class actions, healthcare law; comparative law; immigration, asylum and rights of
ethnic minorities; company and commercial law; competition law; criminal law and
environmental law. See our web-page:
http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/index.html] for a comprehensive list of all areas
of law covered by the School of Law, which includes Department of Law staff.
You should click on the DoL/CCLS button on the top of this web-page’s table to
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list all the Department of Law staff together so that you can see the research
areas the staff cover.
The GTA award is open to eligible PhD students who have previously enrolled.
If you have any queries relating to the funding application process, please e-mail
the School of Law PhD Admissions Administrator, Mr G Skehan, at
g.skehan@qmul.ac.uk
DEADLINE
The deadline for Studentship applications is Thursday 31st January 2013 Please
note you must have completed both the main PhD application process, including
submitting all required supporting documentation, and the GTA application form itself
by this date.
ADVICE ON APPLYING
Please note applicants for GTA funding will only be considered from applicants who
have also completed the main application process for the PhD programme itself.
This is because, firstly, many of the documents submitted with the main application,
including the Research Proposal, will be reviewed by the funding board when the
final decision is made and, secondly, the School of Law will need to ascertain prior to
the funding board decision if it can offer an applicant PhD supervision to begin with.
As PhD applications can take considerable time to process, it is therefore strongly
advisable to complete the application process for the PhD programme as early as
possible, in order to receive an admission decision before the GTA deadline. We
would advise applicants to submit their full and funding applications at least two
months before the funding deadline.
Finally, please note applicants should submit their main application for PhD via the
Colleges On-Line application system and their SEPARATE GTA application form
directly to the School of Law either in hard-copy to:Gareth Skehan
PhD Admissions Administrator
School of Law
Queen Mary University of London
67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3JB
UK
Or electronically, to g.skehan@qmul.ac.uk
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