ABOUT US

The Development Planning Unit (DPU) is an international centre specialising in academic teaching, practical training, research and consultancy in the field of urban and regional development and planning. It is concerned with promoting sustainable forms of development, understanding rapid urbanisation and encouraging innovation in the policy, planning and management responses to the economic, social and environmental development of cities and regions, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Development Planning Unit attracts a range of staff members with both academic and professional backgrounds in the field of international development. Teaching, research and advisory work at the DPU includes a significant degree of engagement with practice and field experience, including an overseas practice engagement.

The MSc Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) programme is strongly interdisciplinary, attracting participants from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropologists, economists, geographers and natural scientists, as well as planners, architects and engineers. A central concern of the programme is to equip participants with a critical understanding of the sustainable development debate and practice, unveiling the political, social and economic forces underlying environmental conflicts in urban regions of the global south and exploring concrete approaches to address their causes. The programme adopts an international comparative perspective, exploring the specific conditions for intervention in different contexts all over the world. The Graduate Teaching Assistant provides support to the Course Directors of the MSc Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) programme for academic administration, and basic academic inputs into the programme. This post is available from October and is on an open-ended contract.
This role does not meet the eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa certificate of sponsorship under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore UCL will not be able to sponsor individuals who require right to work in the UK to carry out this role.