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LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY UCL Academic Careers Framework July 2018 UCL Academic Careers Framework Contents How to use the UCL Academic Careers Framework How to use the UCL Academic 2 The UCL Academic Careers Framework is Careers Framework designed to support every type of academic career path at UCL. Whether you deliver research UCL Academic Careers Framework 3 and education in equal measure, specialise in public engagement or enterprise or focus Research 5 on teaching and institutional citizenship, the framework makes sure that personal impact is Grade 7 6 measured consistently across UCL. Grade 8 7 To help plan and support career development Grade 9 8 and recognise achievements, the UCL Academic Grade 10 10 Careers Framework is designed to be used in a number of ways by staff and managers. For instance, it can be used for: Education 12 building a case for promotion Grade 7 13 Grade 8 14 assessing cases for promotion Grade 9 15 preparing for appraisals Grade 10 17 identifying skill gaps discussing career trajectories Enterprise & External Engagement 18 identifying development opportunities Grade 7 19 Grade 8 20 designing new roles and drawing up job descriptions Grade 9 21 Grade 10 22 succession planning considering cases for reward and recognition. Institutional Citizenship 23 UCL Human Resources can advise on all the Grade 7 24 above and the UCL HR web pages set out more detailed guidance e.g. on academic promotions. Grade 8 25 Grade 9 26 www.ucl.ac.uk/hr Grade 10 27 2 UCL2034 UCL Academic Careers Framework UCL’s long-range strategy, UCL 2034, For each grade, the threshold research and acknowledges that reward for staff, and education statements articulate the pre-requisite recognition of their achievements, is key to the qualities expected of all staff on academic university’s wider ambitions for its research, contracts at that grade, and those seeking education, innovation and enterprise activities. to make a case for promotion to that grade. In order to facilitate that recognition and reward, Relevant threshold criteria also apply to staff on we have developed the Academic Careers research and teaching fellow contracts. Framework. For each of grades 7-10, the Core activities under both research and teaching framework brings together typical activities, will apply frequently to academic staff with a networks and impact indicators. It seeks to mixed portfolio – i.e. those who are engaged in describe and codify the types of activity that may research and teaching – as well as to research feature within an academic career, at an individual and teaching fellow staff. All academic, research grade, and across grades over time. and teaching staff are expected to demonstrate at These descriptions can be used as reference least some core activities under enterprise/external points for staff planning careers, to support engagement and/or institutional citizenship. appraisal discussions and by those preparing Relevant specialist activities are likely to be a case for promotion. The framework has been demonstrated by research or teaching fellow developed to be relevant to staff on academic or staff or where a member of staff on an academic teaching and research fellow contracts. contract is specialising in education or research. The scope of activities and indicators of success For example, as well as demonstrating threshold listed under each grade are intended to be research and education qualities, specialist broad, reflecting the variety of work that can research might take the place of some core be undertaken by staff across a large, multi- education attributes and vice-versa for specialist disciplinary university. They include criteria that education. Equally, a member of staff on an will be appropriate for staff working in ‘lone- academic contract might specialise in enterprise scholar’ disciplines, as well for those in team or external engagement, demonstrating specialist science contexts. The descriptions are not attributes in that pathway rather than some of the exhaustive and no individual should expect to be core or specialist research or education ones. able to meet all of the criteria itemised. In making Given the varied nature of modern academic decisions about which to apply, staff should have careers, some overlap between the criteria is regard to the context of their discipline(s). Where likely, and staff should consider both core and evidence of national or intentional collaboration specialist categories when using the framework, is suggested, staff should again have reference regardless of their contractual status. to discipline context. There is no assumption that an international collaboration is inherently more As well as outlining types of threshold, core and significant than one undertaken with national specialist academic activity, the framework sets partners. out the typical network and reach at each grade. It also sets out example indicators of impact. The framework is relevant to all staff on academic, research or teaching contracts. For promotion cases more detail is provided in the relevant guidance notes but the key element of any case will be a demonstration of your own personal impact in the context of the framework as a whole. 3 UCL Academic Careers Framework 4
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