THE LEICESTER ACADEMIC CAREER MAP Our approach to the career structure encourages a balance between breadth and specialisation. We highlight the central importance of research and teaching, while encouraging all colleagues to develop their contributions to, and achievements in, areas such as enterprise, engagement, citizenship and leadership. The Leicester Academic Career Map illustrates expected contributions and achievements across all five domains and all grades, and in each of our career paths. This provides staff with a clear sense of their current grade, but also with a clear sense of what needs to be demonstrated in a case for promotion. The career map assumes that while all members of staff will be active to some extent in all domains, contribution and achievement is not the same as the activity summarised in job descriptions. Contribution and achievement involves making transformational improvements, developing and sharing best practice, and having a positive effect on the and success of others (including colleagues, students and external partners). The career map also assumes that a specific activity will frequently lead to a contribution or achievement in two or more domains. For instance, an innovative enterprise project is likely to include contributions to research and external engagement, and perhaps leadership, as well as to enterprise itself. A significant research grant is likely to provide opportunities for contributions to leadership (for instance, in the mentoring of early career researchers and postdoctoral scholars), and external engagement (in the form of impact activities, or contributions to public debate). All members of academic staff are expected to demonstrate contributions and achievements in the areas of research and teaching (though the former is understood as scholarship in the case of teaching-focused careers, and the latter is understood as teaching and supervision for research-focused careers, acknowledging that project supervision may be the only available way of contributing to teaching in some instances). As career progression should be based upon an individual increasing the breadth, as well as depth, of their contribution to their discipline, department, college and university, grade 8 staff are expected to make a contribution in at least one of the other three domains, grade 9 staff in at least two, and grade 10 staff in at least two, one of which must be leadership. Version Number: 004 Page 1 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Domains of contribution and achievement with weightings 1 Teaching and research career path Grade Title Contribution and achievement domains Research Teaching Enterprise Engagement L&C 8 Applying for Lecturer 70% or 80% in combination, with a 20% or 30%, with normally no more than 20% in any one domain. minimum of 30% in each. 9 Applying for Associate Professor 60% or 70% in combination, with a 30% or 40% overall, with normally no more than 20% in any one minimum of 20% in each. 10 Applying for Professor 60% in combination, with a minimum of 20% in each. domain. 40%, with at least 10% in leadership. 2 Teaching-focused career path Grade Title Contribution and achievement domains Scholarship Teaching Enterprise Engagement L&C 8 Applying for Lecturer 80% in combination, with 10% or 20% in 20%, with no more than 20% in any one domain. scholarship. 9 Applying for Associate Professor 70% in combination, with 10% or 20% in scholarship. 30%, with no more than 20% in any one domain. 10 Applying for Professor 60% in combination, with 10% or 20% in scholarship. 40%, with no more than 20% in any one domain and at least 10% in leadership. 3 Research-focused career path Grade Title Contribution and achievement domains Research Teaching & Supervision Enterprise Engagement L&C 8 Applying for Lecturer 80% in combination, with 10% or 20%, with no more than 20% in any one domain. 20% in supervision. 9 Applying for Associate Professor 70% in combination, with 10% or 30%, with no more than 20% in any one domain. 20% in supervision. 10 Applying for Professor 60% in combination, with 10% or 20% in supervision. 40%, with at least 10% in leadership. Version Number: 004 Page 2 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
1. Weightings would be in multiples of ten (so, for example, in the research and teaching career path, the options for an applicant to Grade 10 would be 20/40, 30/30 or 40/20 for research and teaching). 2. Our approach also recognises that there may be exceptional cases of outstanding performance in two or three domains (research and enterprise, for example, or teaching and leadership) that might not match these proposed weightings and for which a successful promotion case could be made. No system can or should rule out such exceptional cases. Research and teaching career path Grade Title Research Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 8 Lecturer Grant activity at a level set by discipline benchmarks Developing publication profile, with best outputs internally and externally assessed as 3* Contribution to impact development of national and international research networks Contribution to the development of the subject (for example through regular presentations to national and international conferences, invitations to give key lectures, membership of peer review panels, or editorial responsibilities relating to major journals or reviewing research papers or applications). A developing track record in the Module leadership Engagement in CPD to support innovation at module level in teaching delivery and/or assessment practice practice curriculum, especially at module level, and of the student external impact in at least one aspect of the (including CPD, working with external organisations, both nationally and internationally, commercialisation, commissioned research and consultancy) Innovation in an area of engagement activity (outreach, student recruitment, research collaboration, WP, access, public debate and awareness, social responsibility) at national and/or international level 9 Associate Professor supervision of research students Successful grant capture at a level set by discipline benchmarks Strong and high-quality publication profile, with most outputs internally and externally assessed as 3* or above Enhancement of impact agenda Significant contribution to leadership at programme level Contribution to quality assurance and enhancement at department or college level external impact in at least two aspects of the enterprise activity and outputs at department or college level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international department Leadership in a role or roles that enhances departmental success and national and international profile Contribution to administration success and development of others (such as post-doctoral and teaching fellows) Leadership at department or college level, with college or Contribution to and innovation in administration Contribution and innovation in change projects and to internationalisation Version Number: 004 Page 3 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Research Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 9 Associate Professor Engagement in international research networks and collaborations to a level appropriate to the discipline Evidence of esteem in professional practice in pursuit of research (for example through a sustained track record of invited conference contributions, invitations to referee or review publications or grants and a record of externally examining postgraduate research students) A record of continued successful postgraduate research supervision 10 Professor Successful and significant grant capture at a level relevant to discipline Excellent impact and publication profile, with best outputs internally and externally assessed as 3* to 4* Leadership in impact agenda across a department Leadership and esteem in international research networks and collaborations to a level appropriate to the discipline Evidence of success in roles in the assessment and management of research at national and international levels Significant contributions towards recruiting and winning support for research students Demonstrated excellence in the supervision of research students Engagement with scholarship and pedagogical research to underpin innovation at programme level in teaching delivery or assessment practice and to enhance student learning and practice at a senior level with HEA Fellowship accreditation, or equivalent curriculum, at programme and module level, and the student Leadership in quality assurance and enhancement at college or university level Engagement with scholarship and pedagogical research to underpin significant enhancements of student learning and at college and university level practice at a senior level, minimum requirement to have HEA Fellowship or equivalent, desirable to have Senior Fellowship or be working towards this accreditation Innovation in the curriculum and the student Significant contribution to income and external impact in at least two aspects of the approach to enterprise at department, college and institutional level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international engagement that leads to greater success, external profile and impact for the discipline and department and that fosters change in college and institutional approaches Coaching and mentoring of others, especially Grade 6, 7 and 8 staff Leadership at department, college or institutional level, with Initiation and leadership of change projects, including those relevant to internationalisation Significant coaching and mentoring, especially of Grade 8 and 9 staff and other Grade 10 staff Version Number: 004 Page 4 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Research Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 10 Professor Evidence of track record of high esteem in professional practice (for example through membership of editorial boards of significant journals or academic presses, contributions to peer review committees, professional organisations, learned societies, government committees and research councils and external examination of research students Mentoring and support of colleagues development in teaching practice and enhancement of student Teaching-focused career path Grade Title Scholarship Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 8 Lecturer Engagement in scholarship and publication that enhances teaching and learning in the discipline and the pedagogical resources of the discipline, including the development of new approaches, texts and learning materials Contribution to the development of scholarship in the discipline (for example through presentations to national and international conferences). A developing track record in the supervision of research students Contribution to income and external impact in at least one aspect of the (including CPD, working with external organisations, both nationally and internationally, commercialisation, commissioned research and consultancy) Innovation in an area of engagement activity (outreach, student recruitment, research collaboration, WP, access, public debate and awareness, social responsibility) at national and/or international level Module leadership Contribution to quality assurance and enhancement at department and/or college level practice curriculum, especially at module level, and of the student Engagement with scholarship, including pedagogical research, to underpin innovation at programme level and/or enhancements of student learning or at departmental or college level Leadership in a role or roles that enhances departmental success and national and international profile Contribution to administration success and development of others (such as post-doctoral and teaching fellows) Version Number: 004 Page 5 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Scholarship Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 9 Associate Professor Engagement in scholarship, publication and grant activity that enhances teaching and learning in the discipline and the pedagogical resources of the discipline, including the development of new approaches, texts and learning materials Contribution to the development of scholarship in the discipline (for example through presentations to national and international conference and contributions to professional practice such as editing, refereeing and reviewing). A record of continued successful supervision of research students 10 Professor Engagement in scholarship, including grant capture and substantial publications, that enhances teaching and learning in the discipline and the pedagogical resources of the discipline, including the development of new approaches, texts and learning materials Demonstrated excellence in the supervision of research students Leadership at programme level Contribution to quality assurance and enhancement at college and/or university level and engagement in external assessment and review Contribution scholarship, including pedagogical research, to underpin innovation at programme level in teaching and assessment practice and/or enhancements of student learning or at university level Contributions to national debates and innovation in learning and teaching practice and/or policy practice at a senior level with Senior Fellowship of the HEA accreditation or equivalent curriculum, at programme and module level, and the student Leadership in quality assurance and enhancement at university level and evidence of substantial engagement in external assessment and review practice at a senior level with Senior Fellowship HEA accreditation as a minimum and Principal HEA Fellowship status, or equivalent desirable external impact in at least two aspects of the enterprise activity and outputs at department or college level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Significant contribution to income and external impact in at least two aspects of the Enhancement of overall approach to enterprise at department, college and institutional level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international department Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international department and that fosters change in college and institutional approaches Leadership at department or college level, with college or Contribution to and innovation in administration Contribution and innovation in change projects and to internationalisation Coaching and mentoring of others, especially Grade 6, 7 and 8 staff Leadership at department, college or institutional level, with Initiation and leadership of change projects, including those relevant to internationalisation Significant coaching and mentoring, especially of Grade 8 and 9 staff and other Grade 10 staff Version Number: 004 Page 6 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Scholarship Teaching Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 10 Professor Significant contribution to the development of scholarship in the discipline (for example through presentations to national and international conference, contributions to professional practice such as editing, refereeing and reviewing and invitations to give key lectures) Nationally recognised contributions to scholarship, including pedagogical research, to underpin innovation in teaching delivery and assessment practice at university level and within the broader discipline and enhancements of student learning or at university level Mentoring colleagues development in teaching practice and enhancement of student Innovation in the curriculum and the student Significant contributions to national debates and innovation in learning and teaching practice and/or policy Research-focused career path Grade Title Research Teaching and supervision Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 8 Lecturer Significant grant activity and successful grant capture at a level set by discipline benchmarks A strong and high-quality publication profile, with best outputs internally and externally assessed as 3* or above Contribution to impact development of national and international research networks Delivering excellent teaching and/or supervision Depending on role, contribution to innovation and curriculum development in a module or modules and/or contribution to good practice in supervision of projects and student research and supervision practice external impact in at least one aspect of the (including CPD, working with external organisations, both nationally and internationally, commercialisation, commissioned research and consultancy) Innovation in an area of engagement activity (outreach, student recruitment, research collaboration, WP, access, public debate and awareness, social responsibility) at national and/or international level Leadership in a role or roles that enhances departmental success and national and international profile Contribution to administration success and development of others (such as post-doctoral and teaching fellows) Version Number: 004 Page 7 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Research Teaching and supervision Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 8 Lecturer Evidence of esteem in research (for example through regular presentations to leading national and international conferences, invitations to give key lectures, membership of peer review panels, or editorial responsibilities relating to major journals or reviewing research 9 Associate Professor papers or applications). Successful grant capture at a level set by discipline benchmarks Strong and high-quality publication profile, with most outputs internally and externally assessed as 3* or above Enhancement of impact agenda Engagement in international research networks and collaborations to a level appropriate to the discipline Evidence of significant esteem in research (for example through a sustained track record of initiating major conferences and workshops, frequent invitations to give key lectures, membership of significant activities related to research policy, significant contributions to the discipline in terms of editing, reviewing and refereeing) Engagement in the assessment and management of research and the development of research policy at national and international levels Delivering excellent teaching and/or supervision Depending on role, contribution to innovation and curriculum development in a programme or programmes and/or significant contributions to good practice in supervision of projects and student research and supervision practice external impact in at least two aspects of the enterprise activity and outputs at department or college level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international department Leadership at department or college level, with college or Contribution to and innovation in administration Contribution and innovation in change projects and to internationalisation Coaching and mentoring of others, especially Grade 6, 7 and 8 staff Version Number: 004 Page 8 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018
Grade Title Research Teaching and supervision Enterprise Engagement Leadership and citizenship 10 Professor Very significant grant capture at a level relevant to discipline Excellent impact and publication profile, with best outputs internally and externally assessed as 4* Leadership in impact agenda across a department and at college and/or university level Leadership and esteem in international research networks and collaborations to a level appropriate to the discipline Evidence of high esteem in professional practice (including examples of membership of editorial boards of significant journals or academic presses, contributions to peer review committees, professional organisations, learned societies, government committees and research councils and external examination of research students) Evidence of significant success in the assessment and management of research and the development of research policy at national and international levels Significant contributions towards recruiting and winning support for research students Delivering excellent teaching and supervision Contribution to innovation and curriculum development in a programme or programmes Significant contributions to good practice in supervision of projects and student research Contributions to quality enhancement at department level and supervision practice Significant contribution to income and external impact in at least two aspects of the approach to enterprise at department, college and institutional level Contribution to international enterprise initiatives Innovation in at least one area of national and/or international department and that fosters change in college and institutional approaches Leadership at department, college or institutional level, with Initiation and leadership of change projects, including those relevant to internationalisation Significant coaching and mentoring, especially of Grade 8 and 9 staff and other Grade 10 staff Version Number: 004 Page 9 of 9 Date of Issue: 05/03/2018