DiscoverThe Early Career Researcher PodcastEpisode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education
Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education

Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education

Update: 2025-06-30
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Following on from last time, when we discussed teaching in schools as a post-academic career option, this week, Charlie and Stephanie meet to discuss teaching opportunities for early career researchers in universities (spoiler alert: Rachael never made it!)

Stephanie (recently appointed as a BBC New Generation Thinker: hooray!) is studying to be elected as a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (links below) and so we thought it was a good time to talk about:
- What teaching opportunities exist for ECRs in Humanities.
- Some advice on what to agree to, and what you might want to avoid.
- Some advice on how to get started, and how to maximise the fun parts of teaching as an ECR.

We hope you like it! Please leave us comments or a review as you like.

Links mentioned in the show:
New Generation Thinkers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-generation-thinkers-selected-bbc-radio-4
Advance HE (UK Higher Education Academy): https://www.advance-he.ac.uk
Old Bailey Online: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoinghistoryinpublic.org%2F2025%2F06%2F19%2Fcourtroom-to-classroom-teaching-with-old-bailey-online%2F&data=05%7C02%7CC.Rozier%40uea.ac.uk%7C4c4d7f824f1843f7aabf08ddafc8abeb%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C638859998607650528%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fKfi7wIqR0iomT%2F54hanLuRYR2wdWhsAZSEFw8NpWwk%3D&reserved=0
Medieval Murder Maps: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsocialhistory.org.uk%2Fshs_exchange%2Fengaging-students-with-the-medieval-murder-map%2F&data=05%7C02%7CC.Rozier%40uea.ac.uk%7C4c4d7f824f1843f7aabf08ddafc8abeb%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C638859998607664087%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tgttYrFdQSPlSccDPGHqopP81ZZhL20dgGHx5DKNQOU%3D&reserved=0
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Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education

Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education