Academic Career Pathways Faculty Committee

The Academic Career Pathways (ACP) Faculty Committee considers applications for academic promotion within the Department. The Faculty Committee is the first stage of a three-stage process in which, following consideration by the Faculty Committee, applications go on to be considered by a School Committee and then by the Vice-Chancellor’s Committee.

The purpose of the Academic Career Pathways (ACP) scheme is to recognise and reward outstanding contributions and celebrate academic achievement through promotion and/or pay progression. Assessment is based on contributions in research and research leadership, teaching and/or researcher development, and service to the University and to the academic community more broadly.

See the ACP website for further information about the scheme.  

The main responsibilities of the Faculty Committee are to:

•    consider applications—evaluating, banding, and scoring the candidate’s research contribution objectively against the evaluative criteria and recording collective decisions against the assessment criteria
•    make an indicative assessment of the candidate’s teaching/researcher development and service to the University and the academic community
•    decide whether each case meets the criteria across the three areas: research, teaching/researcher development, and service
•    provide recommendations to the School Committee, placing applications for each academic office in a ranked list of priority.

Applications for promotion open in September and close early in November. If the application is successful, promotion takes effect from 1 October the following year.