Welcome to the SOSS Teaching Assistants (TAs) Website
Our aims: to provide top-quality teaching in a happy and friendly environment and by our teaching of the Social Sciences to make the University of Manchester a force for good in the world.
Important Training Info:
In SOSS we require 3 levels of training for our TAs. SoSS Level, Discipline Area Level and Unit Level. (Optionally TAs may also take the Faculty level traiining)
SoSS Level Training 2011: Tuesday 27th September 10:00-12:00 Room 5.210, University Place (More info on training below)(Slides for the 2011 talk)
Social Statisticis Training 2011: For CCSR Short Courses will be on Tuesday the 18th of October 2011, please email Philippa Walker. If you are unable to attend. In 2012 the date is likely to be held in early September, probably Wednesday the 5th of September 2012.
Sociology Training 2011: Session 2pm, Wednesday 28 September, G0.19, Arthur Lewis Building
SOSS TA Policy
For guidelines on the training and induction of TAs in SOSS, and on contracts, payments, and working relationships with course conenvors, please refer to the approved SoSS TA Policy in June 2010. (The document is also available in MSWord format ( SOSS TA Policy (MS Word)))
The Appendix from the TA Policy on is reproduced in sections here:
- TAs role and responsibilities
- Module Co-ordinators role and responsibilities
- DA TA Co-ordinators’ role and responsibilities
- SoSS TA Co-ordinator's role and responsibilities
Application Form & Job Description (for new applicants)
Application Form and Job Specification The application form should be emailed to Lucy Jones: SoSS Resources Administrator. Closing date 31 July 2011
School of Social Science Contacts for TAs:
- Prof. Yoram Gorlizki : Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Prof. Martyn Andrews: Director Of Graduate Studies
- Catherine Tansey: Head of School Administration
- Lucy Jones: SoSS Resources Administrator
- Nick Weaver: Co-ordinator of SoSS TAs (Job Description of SoSS TA Co-ordinator)
Discipline Area TA Sites and Contacts for TAs
- Economics DA - TA co-ordinator: Dr Noel Russell, (formerly Nick Weaver) UG Administrator: Leo Wells , Director of UG Studies George Bratsiotis
- Politics DA TA site - TA co-ordinator: Kimberley Brownlee:(formerly Dr Piers Robinson ) and UG Administrator: Philippa Wilson
- Social Anthropology DA - TA co-ordinator: Soumhya Venkatesan (formerly Sharon Macdonald, Stef Jansen, Jeanette Edwards) and UG Administrator: Lynn Dignan
- Sociology DA TA co-ordinator: Dr Helene Snee (formerly Lucy Gibson, Prof. Nick Crossley, Dr Gemma Edwards), Director of UG studies in sociology - Bridget Byrne (Sem 1) & Nick Thoburn (Sem 2 onwards) and UG Administrators: William Start and Chantel Riley
- Philosophy DA TA co-ordinator: Sean Crawford ( Previously Dr Graham Stevens) and UG Administrators: Caroline Harmer and Joseph Barrett
- Social Statistics (CCSR) DA TA co-ordinator: Vanessa Gash. (Previoulsy Dr Mark Elliot )
- All DA TA administrators and co-ordinators
FAQ
You can initiate your staff email account once you have received your staff/library card from HR, by either completing the on-line registration form at http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/itaccountmanager or by contact the Humanities service desk, on servicedeskhum@manchester.ac/uk. Your staff email is valid for the duration of your contract - you may need to get back in touch with IT to reactivate your student account.
SoSS TA training Site
Guidelines
Faculty of Humanities Framework
Faculty of Humanities has produced a "Framework for Appointing and Supporting Teaching Assistants"a and additionaly suggests that we use the AHRC guidelines for TAs who are full time PhD students at Manchester University:
"work may be undertaken provided that: the total demand on their time, including contact time and a reasonable allowance for preparation and marking, does not exceed 180 hours in any one year the total demand on their time does not exceed six hours in any week; the work is compatible with their programme of doctoral study; their supervisor approves.”
Campus Solutions documents
|Student Attendance Monitoring| or |Student Attendance Monitoring|
|How to Email Students| or |How to Email Students|
|Tutorial Attendance Monitoring Principles|
|Adding Students To Attendance Roster|
Claims Forms (for payment)
|General Claims Form (PR7)| e.g. selling of red books, 2nd marking of exam scripts
|Additional Hours Claims Form| (PR14) Additional Hours - After contracts have been signed extra hours are paid with a completed "Additional Hours Form" (PR14). This can only be authorised by Catherine Tansey: (Head of School Administrat) who will also need a confirmation email, from the DA Administrator (in UG Office), the DA Undergraduate Director or the Head of DA.
TAs Timesheet
Excel Time Semester Time Sheet
Additional Hours Claim Form (PR14)
Faculty of Humanities Human Resources Page for Teaching Assistants (Getting Paid and Paying or Avoiding Paying Tax)
Faculty of Humanities Human Resources Page for Teaching Assistants Mostly formal information, some of which is in the documents below, but also discusses how to get staff email accounts (at the bottom of the pages).
Useful Information for Teaching Assistants in the Faculty of Humanities
Some Other things
Guide for TAs to Arthur Lewis Building
Statement of Main Terms and Conditions of Employment 2007/8
Supporting Students with a disability
GTA Time Sheet on the SOSS Policies and Procedures page (link only)
Some other "useful" links
Postgraduate Tutors Handbook This is really intended for GTAs in Politics, but has lots of useful information and ideas.
Support for Teaching Assistants and New Lecturers This is specifically for teaching Economics, but again has a lot of useful ideas.
The Higher Education Academy Sociology, Anthropology, Politics C-SAP site has some resources for tutorial teaching in these disciplines.
Old Economics GTA training slides
Old SOSS Training Course Sep 2007-8
Faculty of Humanities - Teaching and Learning Office - These pages provide access to useful information and resources for teaching assistants in the Faculty, in line with the aims of the Faculty's Framework for Training and Supporting Teaching Assistants.