"Lecturer (Teaching) in Mathematics"

About us

The Department of Mathematics at UCL is an internationally renowned department within one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Since its beginning, mathematics at UCL has been enhanced by its many outstanding members of staff. Indeed, two of its students (and later staff) Professor Klaus Roth (1958) and Professor Alan Baker (1970) have gone on to win the Fields Medal. Another former member of staff Professor Tim Gowers won the Fields Medal in 1998 for work he did whilst at UCL.

About the role

Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer (Teaching) in Pure or Applied Mathematics.

The responsibilities of the post will include teaching courses at undergraduate and graduate level in Mathematics, assisting in the development of learning materials, preparing schemes of work and maintaining records to monitor student progress, achievement and attendance, participating in the development, administration and marking of exams and other assessments and attend examiners’ meeting, acting as second examiner and carrying out exam-related instructions as allocated by the Chair of the Dept Undergraduate Examination Board, and giving tutorials as allocated by the Departmental Tutor.

Ideally, the candidate will be available to start from 22 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter for 3 years due to funding restrictions.

About you

A successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent qualification in mathematics or related subject area, be able to demonstrate teaching ability in mathematics at undergraduate level and have the interpersonal skills required to work well with students and academic colleagues, and have the ability to supervise academic work by undergraduate students.

An outstanding candidate will have experience of teaching using remote working technologies.

For full spectrum of duties and responsibilities as well as essential, and desired criteria please refer to the Further Particulars document attached to this advert.

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Anna Rutherford ().

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Christian Boehmer, Head of Department, email: c.boehmer@ucl.ac.uk.

We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.