Teaching Fellow in Aerospace Engineering

The School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London invites applications for a one-year Teaching Fellow in Aerospace Engineering. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career academic to gain broad teaching experience within a research-intensive Russell Group University.

The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in at least three of the following areas:

• Aircraft Structures
• Aeroelasticity
• Flight Dynamics
• Rotorcraft
• Spacecraft Engineering

The role also includes supervising student projects and contributing to module development, assessment, student support, and wider academic activities within the School.

You will hold a postgraduate qualification in Aerospace Engineering or a closely related discipline. An undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD are desirable. You will demonstrate:

• Strong subject knowledge
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• The ability to engage students
• Effective organisational and time-management skills
• A collaborative and professional approach
• Experience of undergraduate teaching, assessment, and project supervision (advantageous)

The School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) is a large, research-intensive School within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, comprising over 110 academic staff and a vibrant community of approximately 2,700 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students, alongside more than 250 PhD researchers. The School is supported by a dedicated team of administrative and technical professionals, creating a strong and collaborative higher education environment.

SEMS is part of Queen Mary University of London, one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities, recognised for delivering world-class education and impactful research. The School offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary research culture, ranked 7th overall in the UK for research excellence in REF2021, and 2nd nationally for world-leading research outputs. With more than £35 million invested in recent years, SEMS benefits from extensive state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities, supporting research and teaching across a broad range of engineering and materials science disciplines.

Following a recent education review, the School is further strengthening its undergraduate and postgraduate provision, with a strong emphasis on skills development, professional practice, and the education of future professional engineers.

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme, and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work-life balance and family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.