Let's Go Abroad!
Set in the historic Newbattle Abbey - and just outside Edinburgh - Experience Scotland provides a rich, cultural immersion with the comfort and safety of an organized international learning community. Visit the UWRF program search and application portal to learn more about upcoming terms and to begin your application!
Faculty Resources
The Experience Scotland program maintains a commitment to providing unique international opportunities to not only students at our various partner campuses, but also faculty. Over 300 faculty have taught in the program throughout our history. Faculty play an instrumental role in the Experience Scotland international community at Newbattle Abbey and many faculty have reported that the teaching experience in Scotland has been just as life-changing for them as it is for the students they teach!
Application Process
Teaching Faculty
To be considered for teaching appointments ranging from one month to an entire semester, please complete the documents below and send via email to kelsey.mclean@uwrf.edu.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Complete course proposals document
- Course syllabi* (please combine all syllabi into a single PDF document before uploading to the application)
- Signed copy of the Faculty Responsibility and Privileges form
- Approval for Application form with all required campus signatures
Group Leader
The Group Leader is an important role, with responsibilities that include providing on-site program leadership, teaching and advising students, facilitating the development of a supportive living/learning community, fulfilling administrative tasks, organizing and supporting diverse curricular and co-curricular programming and other duties. Group Leaders must be willing to deal with many varied issues that arise as a result of both the academic demands of study abroad and those that accompany living with student groups.
The Group Leader role is a semester-length appointment. In addition to providing ongoing leadership to the student and faculty experience in Scotland, the Group Leader will teach two courses. Please indicate your interest in the Group Leader role through the standard faculty application process outlined above. In addition to completing all requirements of the faculty application, please also submit a cover letter outlining your interest in and qualifications for the role.
*Please note: At this stage, course syllabi do not need to be updated to reflect Scotland-specific activity. The course proposal form will ask for an outline of your intended use of the local environment. If selected to teach in the program, updated Scotland-specific syllabi will be required prior to on-site teaching.
Deadlines
The next review of applications will occur after Feb. 27, 2026 and will consider applications for the fall 2027 and spring 2028 programs. If you wish to be considered in the selection for 2027-28, please submit application materials no later than Feb. 27, 2026 for priority consideration.
Eligibility
Alumni and Friends Newsletter
Established in 1986, the Experience Scotland program boasts over 4,500 student, staff and faculty alumni. We invite our alumni to enjoy the collection of previously published Dalkeith Remembered newsletters:
- Dalkeith Remembered, November 2009
- Dalkeith Remembered, March 2010
- Dalkeith Remembered, June 2010
- Dalkeith Remembered, February 2011
- Dalkeith Remembered, June 2011
- Dalkeith Remembered, January 2012
- Dalkeith Remembered, September 2014
- Dalkeith Remembered, August 2015
