Casual Academics for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching in Writing, Literature and Culture in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
If you applied to our EOI in April this year and received successful confirmation of your application for Trimester 1/2/3 2022, you are not required to submit to this EOI again. You are on our teaching register and will be considered for all work over the next 12 months.
Your key responsibilities will be:
As a sessional academic you will make an important contribution to the discipline(s) and unit(s) for which you are engaged. You may be asked to prepare and conduct seminars, consult with students, undertake assessment and attend meetings as required by the Unit Chair.
Applications for this position close on 13 November 2022. Please submit your updated resume, a short 1 page cover letter and Extra Information document (no more than 2 pages).
For any queries regarding this advertisement, please contact [email protected]
This role requires the incumbent to apply for and maintain a Working With Children Check (refer to Deakin’s Recruitment Procedure for further details).
Extra information
To apply for this position, please address the following points succinctly and upload your responses on one page of a Word doc:
List your highest qualification, date of achievement, and relevant discipline.
Please select NO MORE THAN TWO areas that you would like to teach into (out of Creative and Professional Writing, Literary Studies, Children’s Literature, and Gender and Sexuality Studies).
Are you interested in supervising Honours or Masters students? If yes, please indicate whether you have supervisory experience and provide a brief list of supervisory areas.
List your relevant university teaching experience and institutional location/s.
Indicate your availability to teach on Burwood, Waurn Ponds, and Cloud campuses.
About us:
Deakin Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are agile and innovative and committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education and research and contributions to the broader community. Our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff. We offer a dynamic, diverse and inclusive working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, stay at Deakin, and contribute to our ongoing success. As one of Australia’s largest universities, Deakin has strong global linkages, world-class research and an education portfolio that blends the best of campus and digital delivery into a highly supportive and personalised student experience. We offer outstanding education founded on the experience we create for our learners and guided by graduate outcomes for successful lives and careers. In addition, we undertake globally significant discovery research that benefits our communities through the innovative translation of our ideas into new services, products, policies and capabilities. At Deakin, we value diversity, embrace difference and nurture an inclusive, safe and respectful community. Deakin is an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a SAGE Athena SWAN Bronze Award holder seeking gender equity for women in STEMM, and a Silver Award holder in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sexualities and genders.