Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Sink or swim: Exploring the hybrid role practices and identities of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) at the University of Wolverhampton and the power of pedagogic transference

This session will explore the University of Wolverhampton’s unique Graduate Teaching Assistant scheme. This two-year GTA role which is only open to recent alumni unlike other schemes focuses upon the development of teachers and their teaching rather than upon PhD study. The objectives of the session are to: outline the hybrid approach taken to the creation of the GTA role; consider how individuals their students and communities experience the hybrid role; examine how GTA narratives may challenge institutional transcripts (Scott 1990 p.xiii); and suggest how GTA teaching practices might result in pedagogic transference and impact in a TEF landscape.