Professor of Psychology
University of Queensland
Australia

Casual Academics provide a rich and important contribution to the University’s academic, teaching, outreach and clinical endeavours through the provision of a range of academically focused services and activities. Casual Academics may be engaged to fulfil a wide range of duties, including (but not limited to) tutoring; marking; demonstrating; teaching; clinical education; student outreach and engagement; moderating/facilitating and/or student advising; across multiple academic disciplines.  Casual Academics are remunerated according to the category of their duties, as detailed in UQ’s Enterprise Agreement and reiterated in this job profile. 

If you are a current employee of the University, including current casual staff and HDR scholars, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board. 

Before applying, please familiarise yourself with the Semester 1 timetable to ensure you will be available to tutor for what has been scheduled. 

Please click here for a list of Semester 1 2025 Course Offerings. 

Please note that these opportunities are subject to The University’s Code of Conduct. 

School of Psychology Requirements 

• Each course is delivered differently. Please familiarise yourself with the course before preferencing. 

• We strongly recommend reaching out to the Course Coordinator to discuss course details before applying. 

• If you have skills that you believe are relevant to a particular course (e.g., quantitative/technical skills or in-depth content knowledge) please make note of this when applying. 

• All new tutors are required to attend a tutor orientation on Friday 14th February from 10.00am to 12.00pm. New tutors who do not attend will not be given an appointment. 

• Tutors need to be available for at least half of the tutorials on offer for their preferred courses otherwise we may not be able to offer you a position. 

• To be undertake tutoring you MUST be available for the entire semester, from Week 1 through to Grade Release. 

Course Ranking and Allocation 

We use a rating system to assist us in allocating tutors to courses. When rating the courses that are on offer, please remember that the more courses you give a rating to (1 to 4 stars) the greater your chance of being allocated to a course. You will not be allocated to any course you rate as 0-star. 

• The minimum allocation load for most courses is 2 tutorials. Tutorials are either 1 or 2 hours long.  

• Tutors will be paid as per the casual academic salary scale via a predetermined schedule. Payments will vary week to week depending on the course schedule. 

All applicants must supply the following documents:   

• Resume   

To satisfy pre-requisite questions and ensure your application can be considered in full, all candidates must apply via the UQ Careers portal by the job closing deadline. Applications received via other channels, including direct email, will not be accepted.   

Other Information  

You must have work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.  

If you are based within our psychology clinics, please note that you will be required to provide evidence against certain vaccine preventable diseases, which may include the COVID-19 vaccine.