It is proposed to hold an early promotion review of Readers who are judged by their Departments to fulfil the criteria for Full Professor under the New Academic Career structure. The following paragraphs set out the School’s expectations of Full Professors.
Promotion to professorial status comes in recognition of major accomplishments in research and publications combined with excellence in teaching, including advising and mentoring, and growing participation in administration and governance.
Promotion to professor will require a substantial body of additional publications beyond those considered at their last promotion (or at the time of appointment for candidates at mid-career). Candidates for promotion to professor should be internationally recognised leaders in their fields. Their research should be influential and known not only in their specialty area but more widely in their discipline or interdisciplinary area.
In addition to research leadership, candidates will show strong contributions to teaching. Ideally these will include not only excellence in individual teaching but also leadership in teaching (for example, in mentoring more junior teachers or in course development and improvement). Weight will also be given, as appropriate to different fields, to success in entrepreneurial activities, public engagement, informing public policy, and providing service to fields of professional practice.
All candidates for full professor should demonstrate significant contributions to departmental and School-wide strategic management and governance, and should show potential to contribute to the mentoring and career development of junior members of staff.
For those Readers that decide to opt in to the three tier academic job family and are not promoted to Full Professor, the job title Associate Professor (Reader) will be recognised by the School.
Below is a table detailing the deadlines for the fast-track promotion process.
Review Timetable
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Requirement
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Templates and Further Guidance
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Prepared by
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Deadline
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The candidate’s CV including research trajectory (Standard Promotions Committee Template)
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CV template G/2
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Candidate
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16-Jul-13
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Notification of external assessors:
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Two Referees and one reserve Referee nominated by the Department.
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Two Referees and one Reserve Referee nominated by the Candidate
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Two External Experts and two Reserve External Experts
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The Departmental Assessor nomination.
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Referees for Promotion Form
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Department
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16-Jul-13
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The Head of Department Statement (Standard Promotion Committee Template).
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Head of Department Statement
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Head of Department
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30-Sep-13
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Copies of the candidate’s research outputs (4 outputs)
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Electronic versions required if available* but 4 copies of each are required if only hard copies are available.
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Candidate
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30-Sep-13
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The Teaching Contribution Form
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Teaching Contribution Form
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Candidate
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05-Nov-13
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Teaching Observation Reports (by TLC where available)
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Observation Report
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Department
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05-Nov-13
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