There are a number of teaching opportunities for staff within the Department, ranging from leading modules, teaching, marking, supervising etc. You can find more information by contacting the relevant person linked to the role, or you can see the value of teaching generic Module Lead Job Description.

Find the current opportunities available below (for internal applications only):

Role outlines

MRes Cancer Biology (incl. Cancer Informatics and Innovation streams)

We welcome staff input to our programme. If you are an Imperial College staff member, please contact Professor James Flanagan (j.flanagan@imperial.ac.uk) to discuss how you can become involved.

MSc Health Policy (incl. PGDip)
Role title Role description Contact
Module Lead, Module 4: Health & Society Provide academic leadership for above module, offered to a small global cohort of online postgraduate Health Policy students at the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI). You will be expected to engage with IGHI Teaching Fellows and the Interdisciplinary EdTech Lab (IETL) to review & update existing content on Blackboard, deliver and evaluate the 8-week online module. The module has 6x 2-hour live sessions from 4-6pm on Tuesdays via Zoom, and you'll be expected to offer 1-2 hours per week of office hours. You will lead on assessment strategy and delivery, oversee benchmarking and marking. Expected time required: 40-60 hours in total over a 5 month period. Delivery period: 8 weeks from late April to late June 2026, with review and preparations to begin no later than early March and marking in late June / early July. 
We are looking for someone with (online) teaching experience and a significant academic profile and/or professional experience in global public health and its implications on health policymaking. 		 Juliette van Wessem 
BSc Medical Biosciences
Role title Role description Contact
Academic Tutor (BMB) Academic Tutors will be responsible for providing academic and pastoral support to a group of 10-12 undergraduate students (Bsc Medical Biosciences) throughout their degree. The role requires a time commitment of approximately half a day per week (0.1 FTE). 
Tutors are appointed on a yearly basis, but it is hoped that tutors will extend and remain with the same group of students throughout the 3 years of their undergraduate BSc in Medical Biosciences.
Tutors are expected to attend termly online tutor briefings and associated tutor training sessions provided.
The role involves leading approximately once-termly timetabled group sessions as well as meeting students on a one-to-one basis at least once a term.
Tutors are principally responsible for helping students to develop effective and efficient study skills linked to active and independent learning/time management and for monitoring student wellbeing.
Tutors are responsible for signposting students to their Senior Tutor, FEO Welfare and relevant support services for additional pastoral support.
Tutors will also help students to understand / engage with feedback and to engage fully in the course.
Tutors are expected to maintain accurate and GDPR compliant notes on students using the MedLearn platform (training is provided).
Please send expression of interest statement and a copy of your CV to apply. (0.1 FTE/half a day a week)		 Dr Kirsty Flower, Head of Academic Tutoring (BMB)
BSc Cancer Frontiers

We welcome staff input to our programme. If you are an Imperial College staff member, please contact Dr Robert Kypta (r.kypta@imperial.ac.uk) to discuss how you can become involved.

Supporting all PGT/PGR students
Role title Role description Contact
Department Disability Officer The primary role of the Departmental Disability Officer (DDO) is to act as a named point of contact for disabled students (PGT &PGR) and, in liaison with the Disability Advisory Service (DAS), co-ordinate support for students in the learning, teaching and research environment of the department. The DDO will be responsible for contacting offer-holders and current students to signpost available support; to meet them to review their suggested reasonable adjustment documents from DAS; and to liaise with programme staff to implement the adjustments or revise the adjustments where necessary. In addition, the DDO will be expected to liaise with programme teams to ensure the department’s learning and teaching resources are in fully accessible format required by disabled students. The DDO is encouraged to attend the monthly DDO Forum and update the depts Senior Tutor, programme and support teams as appropriate. 
The post-holder will be expected to have, or attain, basic knowledge in the definition of disability from the perspective of the social model of disability; the Equality Act 2010 and its implications for education; and confidentiality and of the correct procedures for handling information regarding an individual’s disability. 
Please contact me for to discuss further. Send an expression of interest statement and a copy of your CV to apply. (0.05 - 0.1 FTE)		 Alison Cambrey

 

Project Supervision and open Project Call

Our Department's academic staff exhibit a rich diversity of backgrounds and specialisms, which impart our Master's projects with great depth and breadth in research opportunities. The following Master's programmes are currently seeking projects for students enrolling Autumn 2025.

Project Supervision and open Project Call

MRes: Cancer Biology; Cancer Informatics; Cancer Innovation specialisms

Our students will begin the programme on Monday 29 September 2025 and are due to start their 10-month project on Monday 1 December 2025. All students are high caliber science graduates, most with prior lab/research experience, who are likely to pursue a PhD in the future. To submit projects for matching with Master's students, you will first need to complete the following  Qualtrics form; outlining the project, hypothesis, and supervisors. This project call will remain open until Monday 1 September 2025. It’s important to us that we appropriately match Supervisors and Students; to this end we encourage Project Supervisors to attend the Project Fair on 3 October to meet with students. If you are not able to attend, Students interested in your project will contact you independently 

Additional notes: All project students will be supported by a £5000 Consumable Fee to help offset project costs. The types of projects we can offer to students include:

  • Cancer Biology Stream (CB) – wet lab projects
  • Cancer Informatics (CI) – computational lab projects
  • Cancer Innovation (CN) – wet-lab/computational lab translational projects

Further information on project guidelines can be found in this shared folder. Please do not hesitate to contact James Flanagan, the Programme Director (j.flanagan@imperial.ac.uk) or Donna Pile-Grant (administrator; d.pile-grant@imperial.ac.uk)

MRes Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention

We invite proposals for MRes Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention projects. These are substantial full time 8-month projects that start at the end of January, allowing our students to make a full contribution to the host group, sometimes including conference and journal submissions.

There are two streams on the course

  • CORE students - backgrounds in engineering and computer science, trained throughout the Autumn in imaging, robotics and computing.
  • Clinical Robotics and AI (CRAI) - clinicians and trainee surgeons, trained throughout the Autumn in clinical robotics, clinical data science and AI.

Projects may be suitable for either or both streams. This year, there is also the option to create two linked projects where a CORE student and a CRAI student work together on different aspects of one research project. In this case, we will be asking students to apply to these as a pair.

The project proposals are due by 7 November. There will be a project fair on Monday 17 November 2-5 pm where you can present your projects to the students, or you can arrange a convenient time via Teams.

Projects come with a consumables budget of £4000 to support research costs, paid into discretionary accounts. Assessment is via an intermediate poster at the Hamlyn Symposium in Medical Robotics (June), a dissertation and a presentation (September). The academic supervisor will be first marker for these.

Projects can be submitted using the link below. You will have a chance to save the projects to your own Forms area after submission. AI projects will be particularly popular and the students have good skills in this area, as well as simulation, imaging and mechanical measurement.

Submit a project

iBSc’s in Anaesthesia & Critical Care, Cancer Frontiers and Surgical Design, Technology & Innovation

We would be very grateful if you would provide research projects for the medical students undertaking their intercalated BSc with the Department of Surgery and Cancer. We are looking for projects for the iBSc’s in Anaesthesia & Critical Care, Cancer Frontiers and Surgical Design, Technology & Innovation. These are 14-weeks long from Monday 2 February, until Friday 1 May. Funding is provided to support each project: laboratory £1000, clinical £550, data analysis or systematic reviews £150.

Please fill in your project details here by the 31 October:

https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0p3Ag3Bmr89SHlA

Projects can be supervised jointly by two supervisors. PhD and MRes students can be day-to-day supervisors but cannot be a supervisor or a co-supervisor. All project allocations will be made on w/c 8 December.  

These are motivated students who achieve a high standard of work in a short period of time and often make significant contributions to a research group, going on to have work published and presented at national and international meetings. 

If you are unfamiliar with the student projects and would like further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our iBSc Leads Richie Abel, Robert Kypta, Kieran O’Dea, or Mike Wilson.

Graduate teaching opportunities

We are seeking well-motivated Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) to assist in the delivery, on-going development, and assessment of our Masters programmes within the Department of Surgery and Cancer.

What teaching/programmes do we offer?

Within the Department, we offer a number of postgraduate taught programmes for students to further their knowledge and expertise in:

What are we looking for?

The GTA role will involve working in a growing education team to assist in the development of course content, post-production, evaluation work, assessment and marking. It is ideally suited to PhD or postdoc level. Whether you are just starting a career in public health or continuing or have finished your studies, this opportunity will provide you with a range of skills in both teaching, digital learning, and allow you to showcase and build your public health skills.

What does the role involve?

We offer flexible opportunities for those who can contribute as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

The majority of our GTAs are set up as casual workers. Casual workers are paid on a monthly basis and are not offered employment on a contract basis.

If we have a specific needs for a longer term GTA role the GTA Role Descriptor (Doc) outlines the potential tasks and responsibilities as part of the role, but this will depend on your experience and background.

Ideally, we are looking for someone who can support various aspects flexibly across different modules at different points of the academic year with the option of flexible working/working remotely and starting as soon as possible.

There is a possibility of longer-term contact options both part and full time, depending on interest and skill. Do not be discouraged to apply if you will not be available straight away, as there are multiple opportunities, and more coming in the future.

If recruited as a casual worker the rate of pay depends on the type of work carried out, which would be either:

  • Rate 1: (processing and responding to specific tasks already designed and developed, including marking); basic rate of £20.02 p.h
  • Rate 2: (more detailed academic content design and development); basic rate of £24.50 p.h
  • Rate 3: (delivering academic content in the form of lectures or tutorials); basic rate of £32.57 p.h

Find out more about the rates.

You must have the right to work in the UK and a valid National Insurance Number for this position.

Further information about casual worker status at Imperial College can be found on the Human Resources webpages.

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