Here’s some of the questions I’ve been asked at job interviews over the years.
- Why do you want this job? Why here? Why this job? Why now?
- Can you give an example of innovative teaching practice?
- How do you embed Technologically Enhanced Learning in your teaching (e.g. online tools and resources, remote sessions, blended delivery, etc.)?
- How would you aim to support, develop, enhance, etc., student employability (through your teaching, through extracurricular events, through external partnerships, etc.).
- What steps need to be taken to encourage and support diversity in the student population in your subject area (e.g. class, race, gender).
- Your research plans? Here’s a narrative which shows I have a coherent five-year plan/plan for REF
- In what areas is your research likely to have measurable impact?
- How would you fit into the department and the institution?
- What makes you a good colleague?
- What experience do you have of gaining external funding?
- Can you summarise your current responsibilities?
- What does a graduate from this programme look like (skills, work & employment opportunities, approach to life)?
- What (funded) research project would you develop (and who might fund it)?
- If you are a practice based researcher, give an account of your work that meets the REF assessment criteria.
- What are the challenges faced by practice-based-research submissions to the REF and how might we overcome them?
- What are the defining characteristics of your research and creative practice?
- Can you give an example of how your research informs and supports your teaching and undergraduate and postgraduate levels?
- Your questions (have two or three that show you’ve looked at the programme/department in detail)?