Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University wishes to appoint a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in Marketing. GTA posts are intended to support early career scholars working towards a PhD while contributing to teaching in the School. This is a Grade 6 position at 0.5FTE and for 48 months duration, with a salary of £15,703 per annum, and with PhD fees waived. The post can be taken up from August 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
About Edinburgh Business School
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) is part of the School of Social Sciences, which also includes the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies, and the Department of Psychology. EBS consists of the subject areas of Accounting, Economics, Finance, HRM & Law, Marketing, Operations & Logistics, and Strategy & Enterprise, and delivers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught and research degrees across all of the University’s global campuses, as well as through a range of high quality distance learning programmes.
About the post
GTAs undertake a PhD over four years while contributing to teaching in the School. Candidates should develop a PhD proposal on the topic ‘Marketing, heritage and tourism’, to be supervised by Prof. Ian Baxter and Prof. Marylyn Carrigan in the Intercultural Research Centre . For more details on the topic, please follow the links to the advert on our website.
For an informal discussion of this project, candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Ian Baxter ([email protected] ) with heritage and tourism-related questions, and Prof. Marylyn Carrigan ([email protected]) with sustainability and marketing questions.
Under the leadership of the Head of Subject, Dr Kathryn Waite, the GTA in Marketing will provide teaching support for the new MA Marketing and the MSc International Marketing. There will be opportunities to contribute to a range of courses as a tutor and as a marker, including Leisure Marketing, Introduction to Marketing, International Marketing, Sustainable Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, and Marketing Communications.
Further details, including a full job description and person specification, can be found on the vacancies pages of our website.
How to apply
Applications can be submitted up to midnight (UK time) on Thursday 9th June 2022. Please apply via the University’s online recruitment portal.
When applying for this role, please submit a single pdf that includes a cover letter that identifies how your skills and experience are a good match for this position, a copy of your PhD research proposal (max. 1500 words), a copy of your CV, and the names and contact details for two referees.