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The Brilliant Club Placements: A paid opportunity for PhD students to teach their own research!

Published on 11 January 17

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that recruits, trains and pays doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of university-style teaching to small tutorial groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve communities with a low participation rate in Higher Education.

Over the course of the academic year 2015-2016 almost 400 researchers were placed in schools throughout the country where they worked with over 8000 high performing pupils.

Tutors are placed in a school to work with two groups of four or six high-performing pupils, delivering a series of tutorials that stretch pupils beyond the curriculum and help to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to secure places at top universities. Tutors will be supported by a training programme consisting of two full-day sessions and will accompany their pupils on a university tripl.

As a successful candidate, not only will you earn £450 per placement, but will gain valuable teaching experience, enhance their knowledge of the UK education system and develop a programme of tutorials drawing on elements of their own research. This is a great chance to develop new skills in public engagement   as you will develop tutorials based on your own research and think about the best way to disseminate it to a non-specialist audience. You will also join a cohort of like-minded researchers who are interested in widening access to highly-selective universities.

Find out more:

The Brilliant Club will be running an information session on campus where you can find out more:
Tuesday 31st January, University Place 5.209, 1pm – 2pm

If you can’t attend but would like to find out more, see the website where you can take a closer look at what it’s like to be a Brilliant Club Tutor and check out the application process.   Applications have now opened for the summer term placements and early applications are encouraged.

If you have any queries email apply@thebrilliantclub.org.