What is The Brilliant Club?
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically rigorous programmes to small groups of pupils in state schools across the UK.
Tutoring Opportunities for PhD and early career researchers
The Brilliant Club’s Researcher Development Programme offers PhD and Early Career Researchers a meaningful, paid, professional development
opportunity. Our mission is to support less advantaged pupils to have fair access to university. We do this by training PhDs and ECRs as tutors to deliver two programmes in non-selective state schools. The Scholars Programme allows researchers to share their subject expertise, delivering an academically challenging supra-curricular course; The Brilliant Tutoring Programme allows researchers to use their subject knowledge to support pupils to develop in key curriculum areas.
How does it work?
There are two programmes researchers can get involved with: The Scholars Programme and The Brilliant Tutoring Programme.
On The Scholars Programme, tutors are trained to create a course and handbook based on their own academic research. Tutors also have the opportunity to deliver a pre-designed programme to younger pupils aged 8-10. They deliver their course in university-style tutorials to groups of 7.
The Brilliant Tutoring Programme helps pupils who have been most impacted by Covid-19 to catch up on lost learning. This programme focuses on core curriculum subjects (English, Maths, Sciences) to help students regain confidence and is taught in groups of 3.
Placements are paid from £500 per placement (plus London weighting), with an additional £100 for designing a Scholars Programme course. Travel expenses are also covered.
To help fit alongside their other commitments, tutors indicate their availability and how many placements they would like to deliver on a termly basis.
To apply, fill in the application form here:
Rachel Williams - University of Lincoln Alumni
“It was such a pleasure to get to know bright young
people, and to talk to them about my research and
other interesting topics. I cannot recommend The
Scholars Programme enough.”
How to Apply:
To work as a PhD tutor, please visit The Brilliant Club website and look at it under Join The Club tab. There you will find details of upcoming recruitment events, an application form, and application guidance. Please complete the application form, which will then be reviewed by a member of The Scholars Programme team. We welcome applications at any time of year and have a rolling application process. However, we encourage candidates to apply by the deadline above to fit in with our next cycle of placing tutors in schools. We will be running Assessment Centres from 20th April 2022 onwards. Our next application deadline is Sunday 1st May, for Autumn placements.
If you have any queries or require further information, please email our Recruitment Team at apply@thebrilliantclub.org.
Contact The Brilliant Club:
If you have any queries regarding the organisation, the opportunity to work as a Brilliant Club PhD Tutor, or the application process please send The Brilliant Club an email at: apply@thebrilliantclub.org
If you would like to speak to them directly, then please feel free to call their Head Office on 020 7921 4540.