Relevant policy and guidance

• University policy on Postgraduates who teach
• Training opportunities
• Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Awards

Sharing research

• Higher Education Academy Joint Subject Centre Development Project 2009 Supporting part-time teaching staff in higher education (PDF , 564kb)
• Park, C 2004 The graduate teaching assistant (PDF , 95kb)(GTA): lessons from North American experience Teaching in Higher Education 9 (3): 349-361
• Park, C and Ramos, M 2002 The donkey in the department? (PDF , 49kb) Insights into the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experience in the UK Journal of Graduate Education 3 (2): 47-53
• Park, C 2002 Neither fish nor fowl? (PDF , 134kb) The perceived benefits and problems of using Graduate Teaching Assistants to teach undergraduate students' Higher Education Review 35 (1): 50-62
• Nicol, D J 2000 'Preparation and support of part-time teachers in Higher Education' Teacher Development 4 (1)
• Sharpe, R 2000 'A framework for training graduate teaching assistants' Teacher Development 4 (1)

Sharing practice

In 2009, surveys were sent to academic departments and to postgraduates involved in teaching, demonstrating and marking. The following documents are available to all members of the University of York:

• Summary of survey findings for Heads of Departments/Chairs of Boards of Studies [York users only (MS Word , 73kb)]
• Summary of survey findings for postgraduates who teach/demonstrate [York users only (MS Word , 30kb)]