Promotions Criteria Matrix for Senior Lecturer
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Research
☐ i) A growing record of high-level
output in the form of
monographs, articles in refereed
or peer-reviewed journals,
chapters in books, and (in
appropriate areas only) peerreviewed conference
proceedings, exhibitions,
performances, or other disciplinespecific outputs.
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Teaching
External Engagement/Impact
Judgement of the Teaching
element will require evidence of
sustained and high performance
under a number of the following
headings:
Judgement of the External
Engagement and Impact element will
require evidence of a number of the
following:
Leadership and Enhancement
☐ i) A significant contribution to the
management or administration of a
department / unit which enhances the
effective working of the group
The Research element will also
include at least some of the
following:
☐ i) Success in teaching as
evidenced by for example peer
review, student
response, external examiners’
comments
☐ i) Application of knowledge
benefiting, inter alia, the spheres of
industry including the creative or
heritage industries, commerce, or
society more generally through such
activities as consultancy, invention
disclosures, assertion of intellectual
property (patents licensed, or
granted), advice to industry, licensing
of intellectual property, directorship
of spin-out companies of benefit to
the College, performances,
representation and public
engagement through the media
☐ ii) Faculty or College-level activities on
behalf of the academic community,
such as the chairing or active
membership of key committees, review
groups, working parties and the like
☐ ii) Successful collaborations with
other research teams/institutions
☐ ii) Demonstrable strengthening
of the links between cuttingedge research
and teaching
☐ ii) Activities and modes of research
dissemination that increase public
understanding of the discipline
☐ iii) Significant participation in Learned
Societies, Research Councils, and other
relevant external bodies
☐ iii) An appropriate record of
external grants for research;
☐ iii) Enhancement of teaching
and learning within the
candidate’s department or
school
☐ iii) Application of knowledge to
improve the performance of public
sector organisations by informing
public policy, government, or the
culture and heritage sector. This may
include, for example, information
technologies, artistic standards, or
new procedures not otherwise
protectable as intellectual property
☐ iv) Membership of multi-centre,
multi-disciplinary and/or
multinational research teams
v) Established record of
supervision of research students
☐ iv) Design or active
☐ iv) Innovation that enables transfer
development of innovative
and application of knowledge to the
programmes within the
benefit of society through industrycandidate’s department/ school
sponsored contract research,
schemes for employing students,
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships,
industrial secondments or
comparable training provision
☐ v) Invitations to give seminars and
keynote/named lectures
☐ v) Active development of
innovative activities within the
candidate’s department or
College, which adds value to
the student experience or
employability
☐ vi) visiting appointments;
☐ vi) Receipt of an internal or
external teaching award
☐ vii) Editorships and advisory roles
/ refereeing for international or
nationally eminent presses and
journals.
☐ vii) External examining,
participation in reviews of
teaching provision held in
other institutions, or the
enhancement of teaching more
broadly
☐ v) Generation of Third Stream income
where this is of tangible benefit to the
College as well as the individual
☐ iv) Activities whose outcomes have had
demonstrably positive effects on the
reputation or enhanced functioning of
department/ unit and hence the
College
☐ viii) Significant contributions to a
supportive research environment
at RHUL, involving for example
mentoring, study groups, peer
reviewing
☐ viii) Practice placements
(though significant
administration or the setting up
of such programmes should be
entered under Leadership)
☐ ix) In the case of the Creative or
Performing Arts, evidence of
growing reputation in the field.
☐ ix) Significant contributions to
the discipline or curriculum
through the
development of successful
teaching and/or learning aids in
the form of
books, e-learning and use of
new technologies; publications
in the areas
of pedagogical theory, new
technology, learning or
assessment theory
☐ x) In the case of the relevant
scientific or non-scientific
disciplines, evidence
of research which supports
industrial or other commercial
development
☐ x) Possession of a recognised
teaching qualification
appropriate to the scope of the
role,(eg HEA Fellow, PGCE
etc).