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The Faculty of Arts offers sessional, fixed term and continuing academic appointments throughout the year.

Continuing and Fixed Term roles, including  Graduate Researcher Academic Associate roles and Fixed Term and Continuing Teaching focused or Teaching and Research roles, are advertised on the University's Career's website.

Graduate Researcher Academic Associates -2026

The Graduate Researcher Academic Associates (GRAA) program is a University commitment offered by the Faculty of Arts in accordance with the University's commitment to Early Academic Career Employment. GRAA roles provide post-confirmation full time PhD candidates with a  fractional appointment at level A2 for 12 months.

Education focussed GRAA roles aim to enhance and deepen the teaching experience of our graduate researchers. They provide graduate researchers with the opportunity to undertake meaningful, paid academic work in education alongside their candidature and further foster their inclusion in the academic life of the Faculty. A GRAA's workload will include teaching tutorials in each semester – approximately two to three classes per week. Education focused GRAAs will be appointed on the basis of their eligibility and school/program teaching needs and will be expected to remain actively enrolled and working on their thesis for the duration of the Fellowship.

A research-focussed GRAA will contribute to the delivery of tailored research assistance, supporting researchers across all disciplines within the Faculty of Arts.

An information session related to Education focussed roles was held on Monday 10th November 2025, a recording of the presentation has been posted to the Canvas page for current Graduate Researchers.

FAQs for Arts GRs interested in a GRAA role are available here

Information for current  GRAAs and university staff is available in the staff hub 

Information for applicants is available here

Recruitment dates for 2026

Study period and role type Applications open Applications close Outcome notification Role Commences Teaching starts
Graduate Researcher Academic Associates Fixed term Education Focused 12 month roles*3/11/202516/11/202515/12/20252/02/20262/02/2026
Graduate Researcher Academic Associates Fixed term Research Focused 12 month roles5/01/202626/01/202617/02/20262/03/2026NA

To Apply for Education focussed GRAA roles: A link to apply was sent to all current Graduate Researchers via the Arts Graduate Researcher Canvas Community on 3/11/2025

To Apply for Research focussed GRAA role go to the job advertisement here Note that these roles are only available to Faculty of Arts Graduate Research students.

*Note that not all Faculty of Arts schools will have Education Focussed GRAA roles in 2026.

  • At this time we expect that GRAAs will be available in the following areas in 2026, the number of GRAA roles available in each area will be dependent on enrolment numbers :

    • Arts History and Curatorship
    • Arts and Cultural Management
    • Classics and Archaeology
    • Creative Writing
    • English and Theatre Studies
    • History
    • History and Philosophy of Science
    • Indigenous Studies
    • Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
    • Media and Communications
    • Philosophy
    • Screen and Cultural Studies

Sessional Academic Tutors

Recruitment Dates for 2027

Study period Applications open Applications closeOutcome notification by Teaching starts
Summer 2027 16/11/2026 29/11/20268/12/2026Various Dates
Semester 1 2027 7/12/202610/01/202727/01/202701/03/2027
Winter 2027   19/04/202724/05/202707/06/2027Various Dates
Semester 2 202719/04/202724/05/202718/06/202726/07/2027

Summer, SM1, Winter and SM2, 2027

Please note: Sessional employment is not guaranteed. Sessional positions are dependent on student enrolment numbers. Estimated student enrolments in a subject may not eventuate, in this situation, offers of casual hours may not proceed. Any offers of casual hours are anticipated and may vary depending on operational requirements.

Given the timeline for student enrolments and the engagement processing timeline, it is also likely that applicants may not receive a final notification until close to the teaching start date for the teaching period. The Faculty understands this uncertainty is difficult for prospective applicants and is doing what it can to reduce the notification timeframe.

Subjects will continue to be added to the lists below as need arises. For subject details, please refer to the University Handbook.

Please note: successful applicants who are new to teaching in the Faculty of Arts will be required to complete compulsory induction and orientation training. during the fortnight prior to semester. The training takes a maximum of 8 hours to complete. This time is paid for staff new to the Faculty.

  • Summer 2027

    • To be confirmed

  • Summer 2027

    • To be confirmed

  • Summer 2027

    • To be confirmed

  • Summer 2027

    • To be confirmed

  • Summer 2027

    • To be confirmed

Casual Tutor Positions

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All Sessional applications must be lodged through the CTRS to be considered. For more information please see CTRS user guides below.

During the period of advertising for casual tutors, subjects will be added on a rolling basis so please continue to check the CTRS to see what is open.

Casual Research Assistants

This work supports Faculty of Arts researchers across all Schools in their research activities. Research Assistants on the pool will be eligible to be offered research assistance assignments on a casual basis throughout 2025. Casual work assignments may be between a few hours and a few weeks at a time and will vary through the year.

Casual Research Assistants must have one or a combination of skills including editing and proofreading, proposal writing, translation of a variety of languages, literature reviews, and data collection and management. Research Assistants will be allocated project-based work aligned with their skills and expertise as it becomes available.

Registration for the casual pool does not necessarily guarantee that work will be offered during the year.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Registration of Interest dates

The Faculty of Arts is not currently seeking registrations of interest for the casual Research Assistant pool.

Working With Children Check

All employees of the University of Melbourne, including those engaged casually, are required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check. Further information is available on the Working with Children website or by contacting the University’s HR Assist team.

Important notes

  • It is expected that the majority of applicants will receive an outcome within the timeframe listed in the ‘Outcome notification’ section of the table above. In some cases, because these positions are dependent on student enrolments, applicants may not receive a final notification until the teaching start date for the teaching period.
  • Applicants for sessional teaching who are enrolled as PhD or Masters students must have been confirmed in their candidature and not be past 3.5 years (PhD) and 1.5 years (MA) full-time equivalency. Currently enrolled Research Higher Degrees (RHD) students at the University of Melbourne applying to become a tutor must have the support of their supervisor.
  • Applicants for Graduate Researcher Academic Associates in the Faculty of Arts  must be confirmed in their PhD candidature, successful applicants will be in their second or third year of candidature with a minimum of 6 months EFT candidature remaining.
  • In most cases, it is essential to have a minimum of an honours degree in a relevant discipline (Please note: that if you are applying for a casual academic staff role in the Asia Institute or the School of Languages and Linguistics this criterion may not apply. Please contact the Program Convenor for clarification)
  • Late applications will not be accepted unless an exceptional circumstance arises based on a school’s requirements. All casual academic staff selected need to have applied formally