You are responsible for preparing and submitting your application to the HR Division and by the deadline date specified in the Timetable. You should complete the relevant application and provide evidence and examples that best support your case for promotion / progression and clearly demonstrate how you meet the Assessment Criteria, referring to the Indicators of Excellence for guidance. This section sets out certain requirements relating to the form and basic content of required information.
Evidence of teaching (to the extent relevant in each case) should include:
- A record of all under and postgraduate courses taught over such a period as to demonstrate evidence of fulfilment of the teaching criteria (normally not less than three years).
- The annual number of hours of teaching undertaken in your Institution (stint).
- Details of administrative work that the Institution has agreed to be equivalent to part of the annual teaching stint.
- Details of any regular and substantial contribution to the teaching programmes of other Institutions.
- An up-to-date list of any postgraduate students formally supervised, including results, over the period of employment.
- Summary of examining duties.
Samples of course descriptions, hand-outs, bibliographies, summary evidence of student feedback may be included, up to a maximum of ten sides of A4.
College Teaching
You may include details of College(s) teaching and work undertaken as a College Director of Studies, in which case the name and College of the Senior Tutor should be given.
Clinical Work and Postgraduate Medical Teaching and Training
If you hold an Honorary NHS consultant contract, you should provide details of your contribution to postgraduate medical education and training. Information provided in relation to teaching will be considered under the teaching criteria and information provided in relation to clinical duties will be considered under Service to the University and Academic Community.
Clinical Veterinary Work and Postgraduate Veterinary Teaching and Training
If you are engaged in veterinary clinical work, you should provide details of your contribution to postgraduate veterinary teaching and training. Information provided in relation to teaching will be considered under the teaching criteria and information provided in relation to other clinical duties will be considered under Service to the University and Academic Community.
Details of published scholarly outputs should be provided as follows:
- An up-to-date list of publications, set out in accordance with the conventions of the relevant academic discipline.
- The publication list should only include work that has been published, is in the public domain, and is available for consideration.
- Work in progress or completed but not yet published, including proofs and pre-prints, must not be included;
- Citation data, in disciplines where this is appropriate, may be included; consideration of an application will not be prejudiced if citation data are not included.
- Copies of publications must not be included.
- The publication list should be in a clear chronological order, stating for each publication (including any books) the year of publication, and page numbers and number of pages (where applicable*). Peer reviewed publication s should be listed separately. Where relevant, it would be helpful if you could clearly mark publications since your last promotion.
Online learning and teaching resources
Links should be provided, clearly demonstrating how the resource is publicly accessible, e.g. via relevant web portals and/or licences. Where available, download data or access statistics should be provided or other evidence of take up or adoption.
Definition of “published”:
Work is regarded as published if it is traceable in ordinary catalogues and if copies are obtainable at the time of application, or at some previous time, by members of the public through normal trade channels; proofs of papers and pre-prints not yet published are not submissible.
The list can include work published electronically where it is regarded as published in the same formal sense as a journal or book. This includes free electronic journals that are refereed and accessible to the public. Placing a paper on a University web page does not count as publication but electronic publication of invited and/or contributed talks published as part of the proceedings of a Higher Education Institution or related body is acceptable provided hard copies are available in published form.
Non-standard contributions :
For disciplines where the communication of research results is not, or is only partly, in the form of conventional scholarly publication, other forms of contribution should be listed.
*It is recognised that page numbers and numbers of pages may not be available for on-line publications.
You should provide a list of contributions other than in teaching and scholarship undertaken in your Institution/School/University and any service to the academic community outside the University that you wish to have considered. This service may include public engagement work.
If you hold an Honorary NHS consultant contract you should include details of your participation in regional and national committees (e.g. Royal Colleges, General Medical Council) and bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, as well as details of your clinical duties.
If you are engaged in clinical veterinary work, you should include details of your participation in regional and national committees and bodies concerned with postgraduate veterinary education, as well as details of your other clinical duties beyond teaching and pedagogy.
You must include a personal statement in support of your application, which demonstrates how you meet the Assessment Criteria of the office or post/grade to which you are applying. Where applicable, you should highlight information about your achievements since your last promotion.
With regard to the evidence provided of scholarship, you should make clear your role and contribution in multi-author publications or multi-partner projects. You might also wish to highlight key advances set out in your scholarship.
You are encouraged to record any Contextual Factors that have affected your performance over the last five years. Contextual factors may include, but are not limited to: part-time working, ill health, disability, caring responsibilities and periods of prolonged leave such as maternity, parental leave or bereavement.
Student feedback is an important factor in assessing the effectiveness of teaching, course development and innovation. Therefore, your self-assessment should take into account student feedback (including informal emails) on the courses you have taught or are teaching. The Head of Institution may comment on this self-assessment in the Institutional Statement.
With regard to teaching duties, you should include a self-assessment of the impact of your work on students.
The University recognises that many teaching and scholarship staff will have faced difficulties in carrying out their usual duties during the COVID-19 pandemic. We therefore welcome a COVID Impact Statement from you detailing the impact on your current or future work. This may include impacts as a result of caring responsibilities for children and/or other dependents, mental health issues such as heightened stress and anxiety over this period, or other disability related impacts.
If you consider your teaching and scholarship to be interdisciplinary, you should explain clearly the interdisciplinary aspects of your work and indicate which of the University Institutions your work mostly concerns.
The completed application should be submitted to ACP T&S Inbox: hrteachingandscholarship@admin.cam.ac.uk by the deadline date stated in the Timetable.
The relevant application documents can be downloaded from the Forms section of the guidance.
You will be notified of the outcome of your application after the GB meeting that considers ACP T&S recommendations.
If your application is unsuccessful and you wish to receive feedback you should request this from your Head of Institution by the deadline set out in the timetable.
You may ask for the feedback statement set out in the SC minutes to be carried forward for information to your next application under the ACP T&S scheme. This option is intended to help you demonstrate how you have responded to feedback and further strengthened your application.