NOTES OF GUIDANCE ON THE CURRICULUM VITAE
The following Notes are intended to help members of staff in submitting their Curriculum Vitae to the
Academic Staff Committee/Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Personal Promotions.
The
recommended format of the CV is as follows:
PERSONAL DETAILS
Full Name and Title:
Department:
Title of current appointment:
Education/Qualifications:
[Details of degrees, diplomas and other qualifications and where
and when obtained.]
Appointments held:
[A complete account of all previous professional appointments
held, with dates and in chronological order.]
Membership of learned or professional societies:
TEACHING
Departmental Duties:
[Paragraph for Guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
List the lecture courses, laboratory exercises, tutorials, field courses etc. for which you were
responsible during the last academic year (or previous year if on Leave). Present the information in a
table as follows. If you do not regard this as a normal teaching year, indicate in which respects it is
different.]
Length of Course
(Contact hours)
Lecture Courses
Tutorials/Seminars
etc.
Taught Masters Classes
TOTAL
Number of Students (approx)
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Research Supervision:
[Paragraph for Guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
Only the number of research students and successful and unsuccessful theses need be given.
Please tabulate by year of initial registration, indicating year of submission as follows:]
Current Research (MPhil/PhD) Students
Individual
(unnamed)
Start Date
Qualification
aimed for
Anticipated
Completion Date
Individual/Joint
Supervisor
A
B
C
.
.
Oct 20xx
PhD/Mphil
September 20yy
Joint
Number of successful research students since 20zz:
Number of unsuccessful research students since 20zz:
Other Teaching:
[Paragraph for Guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
Describe briefly any teaching you may do in other departments or outside this University (e.g. access
courses, open studies, continuing education etc). External examining of taught courses elsewhere
may be included.]
RESEARCH
Publications:
[Paragraphs for Guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
The publication list should indicate date, title, name of publisher, name of journal, names of coauthors, and order of authorship and LENGTH IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF PAGES. For
publications in journals, please give the initial and final page numbers (e.g. pp 315-325) and, where
appropriate, state whether these are refereed journals. In the case of books, state the actual number
of pages.
State the nature of the publications: eg. books (monograph, co-authored, co-edited, chapters);
articles; review articles; commissioned reports; conference proceedings; book reviews. A note of
work in ‘other media’ such as non-text based materials, film, databases, software etc., may be
included where appropriate.
Future publications and work in progress may be included, but please indicate whether or not the
work has been accepted for publication; if it has, please give date and name of publisher/journal.
In all relevant cases co-authorship must be acknowledged and an indication given of the
proportion of your contribution. The Academic Staff Committee asks for this information in
order to assess how major an individual’s contribution is to a multi-authored publication.
They are looking for overall contribution, so take into account who had the original idea, who
did the necessary fieldwork/lab research/data gathering etc., who did the data analysis and
who wrote and edited the publication. It is appreciated that it is difficult to assess percentages
in this way, but it gives the Committee an approximate idea about the input into a publication.
It may be helpful to indicate how you have identified the contribution.
Please asterisk publications that are seen as being of particular significance and indicate why
they are significant in a brief statement.]
Research Grants and Contracts:
Please indicate whether you are the Principal Investigator. If you are not the PI, please state
his/her name as well as the name of the Institution where the grant is held.
Present the information in a table as follows:
No.
Date
Awarded
Project Title/Details
Duration of Award
Funding Body
Involvement
PI?
Names of
Other Holders
Total
Awarded
Total to
University if
amount split
1
2
3
4
5
Number of postdocs:
ADMINISTRATION AND OTHER SERVICE
Administration and Contributions to the University and its development:
[Examples for guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
 responsibility for a specific area of activity within a Department (e.g. admissions, examinations,
timetabling, Library provision, schools liaison etc);

service at University level, e.g. membership or chairmanship of University committees, provision
of student counselling or other support services;

representing the University on external bodies;

generating and managing within or between departments initiatives which contribute to the
development of the University.]
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
[Examples for guidance only – to be removed on final version of CV.
Prizes, invitations to address conferences or learned societies, external examinations of higher
degrees, membership of a Government commission or board of trustees etc.
Date Curriculum Vitae Prepared:
CV/notes/June 2013