Academic Career Pathway

1. Academic Career Pathway

2. The changing environment • Drivers for changing career structures • changing fees environment and the importance of the student experience, • reduction in public funding, • growing diversity of what it means to be an academic, • focus in the REF on 3 and 4* research, • competition from other leading Universities.

3. Academic Skills • We need to attract, retain, skill, and motivate staff to deliver • outstanding learning and teaching, • an excellent student experience, outreach, enhanced employability • leadership and management • Innovation and engagement • internationalisation • research

4. Issues with current career structure • Criteria are in need of review • Leadership is not adequately recognised • Perceived lower status of teaching roles • Equality issues • the REF context • Review needed of teaching/student focussed roles • “Third mission” career track is not well defined • Research focused roles

5. Principles • A single academic career pathway consisting of alternate routes for progression from grade 8 to grade 11. • Parity of esteem between strands.   • equality of progression for women and men • Each grade has defined core criteria combined with additional enhanced criteria • Constructed through consultation with UCU and other stakeholders

6. Criteria • . • Core criteria at each grade typically comprise: • •core teaching and scholarship • •core research and • •core academic leadership and student support.

7. Enhanced Criteria • Enhanced criteria at each grade typically comprise: • • enhanced teaching and scholarship (“T”), • • enhanced research (“R”) • • enhanced academic leadership/management, student support and internationalisation (“M”), • • innovation and engagement (“I”).

8. Key Features • A career pathway with a number of strands • The flexibility to move between career strands • A clearer teaching/scholarship strand • A leadership/student experience strand to include employability, internationalisation, and widening access • A strand for innovation and engagement • An emphasis on research led teaching • aligned with then HEA UK Professional standards framework. •  transparent criteria • Inclusion of professional practice

9. Implementation • Members of staff informed of profiles and process • Agree relevant career strands with their line manager Head of College. • Classified according to the enhanced strands. • Reviewed at the next and subsequent PDRs. • Unless otherwise agreed - current academic staff -T&R. • Discuss role with line manager at interim professional review

10. Agreeing new role • Any change in the role profile to include • consideration of duties • workload, teaching, • contact hours, • administrative responsibilities • student experience responsibilities. • Must be agreed with Head of College and notified to HR

11. Titles • Uniform titles for all on the same grade in the Career Pathway • Associate Professor: All promoted to grade 10. The title “Reader” will be phased out. • Lecturers grade 9: Lecturers at grade 9 will use the job title Senior Lecturer. • Lecturers Grade 8: Lecturers at grade 8 will retain the job title “Lecturer” • Tutors Grade 7: Tutors at grade 7will be unaffectedand will retain the existing job titles. • Research Officers and Research Assistants : These roles are not included in the new scheme and will be unaffected

12. Titles • Tutors and teaching centred staff grade 8 and above: • Tutors and other “teaching only” staff on grade 8 or above will normally be T&M – and will have the same titles as other academic staff i.e. Lecturer, SL, Associate Professor. • Tutors Grade 7: Tutors at grade 7will be unaffectedand will retain the existing job titles. • Research Officers and Research Assistants : These roles are not included in the new scheme and will be unaffected

13. Promotion Systems • First year - existing promotion procedures • Chairs: Chairs and Readerships Committee will considerapplications under the current criteria and procedures for 2012/13. The new criteria will be used in the session 2013/14. • Grade 10 (currently Senior Lecturers): Current criteria for promotion replaced by criteria in new profiles. Consideration by academic Staffing Committee. All academic staff promoted to grade 10 will be termed Associate Professor. • Grade 9: On the recommendation of Head of College approval will be through the Academic Staffing Sub – Committee, as now, for the first year.

14. Implementation Guidance and Profiles • Available at • http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/informationforstaff/academiccareerpathways/ • Any Questions?