Postgraduate Teaching Assistant opportunities
Find opportunities to gain teaching experience alongside your PhD.
Combining a teaching role with postgraduate research, PGTA positions are an exciting opportunity to complete a PhD under the supervision of Loughborough University's expert staff while gaining invaluable experience in the delivery of learning and teaching.
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA)
- PGTA roles are available in the following areas: Biomechanics and Motor Control; Sport Physiology and Nutrition / Physiology; Clinical Exercise Physiology; Biosciences; and Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.
- Job Family and Grade: Specialist and Supporting Academic (SSA) Grade 5.
- Fixed-term for five years, or until completion of a PhD, whichever is sooner.
The School is currently recruiting for several PGTAs to support discipline-led teaching.
This teaching role will include:
- Demonstrating/Seminars/Tutorials
- Supervision
- Mentoring/tutoring
- Highly moderated marking
- Answering student enquiries on behalf of the module leader, and escalating these to the module leader, where necessary.
Applicants will have a strong academic background in a relevant academic area, combined with experience of undertaking a research project and the ability to pursue a substantial independent research project over a sustained period.
Studentship tuition fees will be paid by the University, but as the post will attract a full-time SSA Grade 5 salary (£25,627 - £30,497 per annum), no additional studentship stipend will be paid. Progression opportunities exist within the post as there is the potential to progress to SSA Grade 6 on gaining Associate Fellow status of the Higher Education Academy (or other such body) plus meeting additional criteria after no less than two years of employment.
Only individuals with existing rights to work and study in the UK can be considered, as the role does not meet the requirements for visa sponsorship under UK immigration regulations.
Application and Interview:
- Biomechanics (REQ220934)
- Sport Physiology and Nutrition / Physiology (REQ220936)
- Clinical Exercise Physiology (REQ220933)
- Biosciences (REQ220935)
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (REQ220937)
The closing date for receipt of PGTA employment applications is: Thursday, 18 August 2022
Interviews will be held in September 2022.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Only those candidates who are invited to attend for interview will be required to complete an application form for PhD study, therefore applications should only be submitted by the invited candidates, when asked.
Within the ‘Supporting Statement’ of their application for employment, applicants should indicate their interest in a maximum of three PhD projects, in order of preference (see list below)
PhD Projects:
Biomechanics
Project Proposal
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Project Title
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Supervisory Team
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Energy dissipation in human soft tissue during impacts
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Dr Matt Pain
Dr Sam Allen Dr Stuart McErlain-Naylor |
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Exploring, preventing and rehabilitating chronic ankle instability
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Dr Daniel Fong
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Ankle joint moments and Achilles tendon forces from wearable technology: development and application of internal biomechanical training load measures
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Dr Stuart McErlain-Naylor
Dr Daniel Fong |
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To determine the underlying control strategy employed in human locomotion
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Dr Michael Hiley
Dr Sam Allen |
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Computer simulation modelling: Applications to optimal technique and motor learning
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Dr Michael Hiley
Dr Sam Allen |
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Modelling of musculoskeletal function during maximal velocity sprinting
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Dr Sam Allen
Dr Glen Blenkinsop |
Biosciences
Project Proposal
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Project Title
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Supervisory Team
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Investigating relationships between early life antibiotic prescriptions and health outcomes using longitudinal datasets
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Dr Emily Petherick
Prof Emily Rousham |
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LEAF: Linking Environment, Adaptation and Function
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Dr Daniel Longman
Professor Lettie Bishop Dr Colin Shaw, University of Zurich |
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Muscle-bone crosstalk: The role of soluble factors released during exercise in musculoskeletal health
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Dr Owen Davies
Dr Andy Capel Prof Mark Lewis |
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Assessing the threat of advanced drug delivery systems for sports doping
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Dr Owen Davies
Dr Liam Heaney Dr Guido Bolognesi Prof Mario Thevis (WADA-accredited Lab Director, Cologne) |
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Non-invasive mass spectrometry discrimination of critical threat antimicrobial-resistant chronic wound infection diagnosis
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Martin R. Lindley (SSEHS)
Elizabeth Radcliffe (Chem Eng) |
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Vitamin D, immune function and general health
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Dr Martin R. Lindley
Dr Sarabjit Mastana |
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Gut microbiome-derived metabolites and their protective effect on metabolic health and immunity
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Dr Liam Heaney
Dr James King Dr Marilyn Ong External Collaborator: Dr Andrea Salzano (Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy) |
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Investigating the effects of exercise and disease on telomere biology
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Dr Sarabjit Mastana
Dr Martin R. Lindley |
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How does nutrition and exercise influences epigenetic signatures in diverse populations (endurance/ resistance athletes and cardiometabolic diseases)?
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Dr Sarabjit Mastana
Dr Martin R. Lindley |
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Nutrigenomic and epigenetic contributions to BAME pregnancy health outcomes
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Dr Martin R. Lindley
Dr Sarabjit Mastana |
Clinical Exercise Physiology
Project Proposal
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Project Title
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Supervisory Team
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Interruptions to sitting time: Impact on cardiometabolic and inflammatory profiles
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Dr Nicola Paine
Dr Christof Leicht |
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Sedentary behaviour, physical activity, psychological stress and vascular health - implications for cardiovascular disease
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Dr Nicola Paine
Dr Emma O’Donnell |
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QRM62 | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: evaluating the efficacy of non-surgical treatment approaches | Dr Tom Balshaw Dr Jakob Skarabot |
QRM2 | LEAF: Linking Environment, Adaptation and Function | Dr Daniel Longman Professor Lettie Bishop Dr Colin Shaw, University of Zurich |
PE and Sport Pedagogy
Project Proposal
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Project Title
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Supervisory Team
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Investigating and developing coaches’ use of dialogic pedagogy
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Dr Ed Cope
Prof Chris Cushion |
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Caring in the coach-athlete dyad: Developing relational coaching that is caring
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Prof Sophia Jowett
Dr Ed Cope |
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Coach behaviour analysis and collaborative action research: Investigating pedagogical tools as catalysts for coaches’ learning and development
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Prof Chris Cushion
Dr Ed Cope |
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Reimagining Physical Education and School Sport for Inclusion
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Dr Janine Coates
Dr Oliver Hooper Dr Rachel Sandford |
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Co-constructing ‘Pedagogies for Voice’ within Physical Education
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Dr Oliver Hooper
Dr Rachel Sandford |
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Examining the potential of Physical Education for promoting Social and Emotional Learning
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Dr Rachel Sandford
Dr Oliver Hooper |
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What’s the point of PE? Exploring young people’s experiences of PE curricula within the UK to promote curriculum development
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Dr Julie Stirrup
Dr Rachel Sandford Dr Oliver Hooper |
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Teacher - pupil health and well-being and the role of schools in enhancing both
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Dr Julie Stirrup
Prof Lorraine Cale |
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Physical Education teachers’ understandings of and engagement with Physical Literacy in practice
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Dr Julie Stirrup
Prof Lorraine Cale |
Sport Physiology and Nutrition / Physiology
Project Proposal
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Project Title
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Supervisory Team
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Field testing in Wheelchair Sports
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Prof Vicky Tolfrey
Dr Keith Tolfrey |
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Impact of dairy food components on biomarkers of cardiometabolic health
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Dr Oonagh Markey
Dr Emma O’Donnell |
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Acquirement and decay of haematological (H) and non-haematological (NH) terrestrial hypoxia [(eg. Live-High Train-Low (LHTL) and/or Live-High Train-High (LHTH)] derived adaptations in elite endurance athletes.
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Dr Lee Taylor
Dr Lewis James Prof Gregoire Millet (University of Lausanne) Dr Andrew Shaw (British Athletics/EIS) |
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Optimising carbohydrate intake for performance and health in endurance athletes
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Dr Stephen Mears
Dr Lewis James |
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Physical work and exercising in the heat: how can hydration strategies reduce the risk of kidney injury?
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Dr Stephen Mears
Dr Lewis James |
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Mechanisms for inter-individual variability in postprandial lipaemic responses to acute exercise in adolescents – a genetic and methodological approach.
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Dr Keith Tolfrey
Dr Laura Barrett Dr Sarabjit Mastana |
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The Gut-Sport Axis: Investigating the use of gut microbiome-derived metabolites to improve muscular function and sports performance
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Dr Liam Heaney
Dr Stephen Bailey Dr Lewis James Dr Marilyn OngExternal collaborator: Tindaro Bongiovanni (Parma Calcio FC, Italy)
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Player development during University
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Dr Laura Barrett
External collaborators: Dr Caroline Sunderland and Dr John Morris (Nottingham Trent University) |
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Towards a mechanistic understanding of task failure during exhaustive exercise
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Dr Mark Burnley
Dr Richard Ferguson Dr Stephen Bailey Dr Martin Lindley (TBC) |
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Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) and the amenorrheic athlete: cardiovascular consequences
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Dr Emma O’Donnell
Dr Oonagh Markey |
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Fast and strong: Neural determinants of increases in rate of force development
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Dr Jakob Skarabot
Prof Jonathan Folland Dr Paul Sanderson |
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Neuromuscular training for young people recovering from eating disorders and disordered eating
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Dr Richard Blagrove
Dr Carolyn Plateau |