How many teaching hours is the norm? (A&H, RG, R&T contract)

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As it says on the tin 😉. I do appreciate people's mileage might vary. My university and especially department is fantastically opaque with these things, I was teaching 8-10 hours per week for 20 hours per year as a research fellow (so yeah.. I was supposed to be focusing on research), and, not knowing any better, I didn't complain. Eventually my teaching load stabilized at something like 6-7 hours per week (120-140h per year) and I assumed that was the norm for everyone in my department. Now as HoD I am discovering that some people teach like 4-5 hours per week and consider it excessive (many of our courses have very complicated timetables, with different types of sessions, not of which run every week, and course convenors sometimes ask PhDs to teach some sessions behind my back - so it's historically been very difficult to ascertain how much everyone teaches, I'm only getting to the bottom of it now).
A colleague in another department tells me that even within the same parameters (A&H, on a R&T contract), 10-12 hours of teaching per week is the norm at some RG unis...

I’m in the Humanities at a pre-92 institution. Last semester it averaged out at 8 hours per week. This semester it’s about 5 hours per week.

I'm in a business school in a RG uni. The typical load is two modules in one semester with the other semester for research. Each module would typically be 6-8 hours a week (two hour lecture plus tutorials).

Oh that's interesting! I wouldn't mind that kind of pattern - I think it's being used in some areas in my uni actually...

We expect 150 contact hours a year which would be around 6 a week. Assuming you're research active. Non-RG but research intensive.

For all contact hours, we average about 4 per week. That includes tutorials.

i do 3hrs per week plus 2 module coordination for 10 weeks and associated marking, then project supervision in the other semester (8 to 12 dissertation students)...

Forgot that I’m supervising 7 UG dissertations this semester.

(course convenors sometimes ask PhDs to teach some sessions)

I was this PhD student, with a contract of 130 hrs per term on top of research...that obviously always went over that. It was stressful

130h teaching per term as a PhD student?! That's bonkers.

RG science - I do 25 hours lecturing per year (yes, year). plus supervision of 10 MSc projects and 9 ug projects which probably adds up to a whole lot more.

Standard max is 120 hours teaching per year. Doesn’t include office hours or PGT or UG dissertation supervision. Have up to 10 of those (with remissions if you have PhD students) but it’s not very intensive supervision. RG, social sciences.

Yes! (terms where I studied were 13 weeks) So it was expected to average around "10 hrs per week" (my arse!!), but included leading 2 tutorial groups per week, office hours and grading.

The profs only led the lectures twice a week. No office hours or grading for them 🙄

We were overworked for sure!

RG here - 6- 7 hours per week for 2 terns, inc office hours but excluding dissertation and PhD supervision

Previous WP uni 10-15 hour p/w and much needier students in my email a lot!

RG as well, very research intensive. I currently deliver only one module, and the occasional lecture. So that's ~24 hours per year, plus 5 MSc students, 4 PhD students, and up to 4 UG students. I do all the marking and teaching related admin. Up to 50 students per module. Large admin role though. Standard is two modules so up to 60 hours per year plus marking/admin.

Our PhD students can act as PGTAs and support teaching delivery landmarking for larger modules, but not really lecture themselves.

Humanities. I teach 3 modules a year each of which has a 2hr seminar each week. So 2 hrs per week in one semester and 4hrs in the other one. Relatively small student groups too (max 24). I realise I am very lucky. 1994-type University