Category: Graduate Teaching Opportunities

GTA Roles x 2: Atomic Learning Disciplinary Examples (apply by 18 May)

Two GTA roles for two months (late May 2026 to the end of July 2026)

This is a good opportunity to improve your research computing and data science skills while generating some income as a GTA. You will be working with the Research Computing and Data Science team at the Early Career Researcher Institute. We invite you to contribute to our new project, Atomic Learning.

The Atomic Learning project involves creating a large learning resource for research computing and data science, composed of small learning units and information about their dependencies. Using the Atomic Learning resource, educators and students will be able to easily construct customised learning paths to support their teaching and learning.

We are looking for two GTAs to develop new disciplinary coding examples for our Coursera course, Introduction to Python for Researchers. We are looking for two GTAs who can develop additional examples for 1) Life Sciences and Medicine, 2) Business, respectively. The new examples will be imported and tested in the Atomic Learning resource.

Tasks and conditions:

  • reviewing the Coursera course (joining instructions)
  • developing new labs for the course in 1) Life Sciences and Medicine, and 2) Business
  • importing the examples into Atomic Learning
  • working with RCDS teaching staff to fine-tune the presentation of the parallel examples in Atomic Learning.
  • the highest GTA pay rate
  • approximately 25 hours of engagement from late May 2026 to the end of July 2026 (hard deadline)
  • regular meetings with teaching staff
  • flexible hours (as long as they are evenly spread)

The application form is at: Two GTA roles for the Atomic Learning disciplinary examples – Fill in form.

The deadline is on May 18th 2026, end of the day.

If you have any questions, contact Katerina Michalickova, Head of RCDS.

GTA Roles x 2: Atomic Learning Ingestion Interface (apply by 18 May)

Two GTA roles for two months (late May 2026 to the end of July 2026)

This is a good opportunity to improve your research computing and data science skills while generating some income as a GTA. You will be working with the Research Computing and Data Science team at the Early Career Researcher Institute. We invite you to contribute to our new project, Atomic Learning.

The Atomic Learning project involves creating a large learning resource for research computing and data science, composed of small learning units and information about their dependencies. Using the Atomic Learning resource, educators and students will be able to easily construct customised learning paths to support their teaching and learning.

We are looking for two GTAs to help with establishing an ingestion interface for Atomic Learning. This AI-enhanced interface will enable the import of existing teaching materials in various formats into Atomic Learning. This opportunity will be best suited to GTAs with existing experience with generative AI agents and workflows, and programming in general.

Tasks and conditions:

  • testing the ingestion interface prototype
  • providing suggestions for improvement
  • importing existing RCDS teaching materials into Atomic Learning
  • working knowledge of VS Code
  • the highest GTA pay rate
  • approximately 25 hours of engagement from late May 2026 to the end of July 2026 (hard deadline)
  • regular meetings with teaching staff and research software engineers
  • flexible hours (as long as they are evenly spread)

The application form is at: Two GTA roles for the Atomic Learning Ingestion Interface – Fill in form.

The deadline is on May 18th 2026, end of the day.

If you have any questions, contact Katerina Michalickova, Head of RCDS.

GTA Opportunity – Paid LaTeX development opportunity

The Research Computing and Data Science team are in the process of commissioning and collating a series of exemplar programming projects known as ReCoDE. These projects are designed to demonstrate good programming practice in research to help other students learn by example and include extensive annotation to explain their function and the design choices made.

We generally welcome any submission, but we are looking to commission a particular submission in the form of a LaTeX template for an Imperial doctoral thesis. This template should match all of Imperial’s thesis requirements and should not be overly complicated, such that a relatively inexperienced LaTeX user would have the background to understand it. The basic skeleton of the thesis and the formatting required to meet Imperial’s requirements should be the focus, but other useful pieces of LaTeX may also be demonstrated.  This template does not need extensive research content, but could include some if it helps to demonstrate the formatting tools used.

If you are interested in working on this exemplar, more information on contributing can be found here. Click on the “Pitch an exemplar here” button at the bottom of that page to submit a proposal. The next round of exemplars will be selected in the autumn, and we will review all proposals before reaching out to selected applicants to complete the exemplar over three months in the autumn term.

Authors of exemplar are paid as GTAs (or Casual Workers) for 45 hours of work at a rate of £35.78/hour, including holiday pay.