Academic Matrix
Generic and
Applied Research
Skills
Academic Clinical Fellow or Pre-doctoral Academic Trainee/ Clinical
lecturer
Doctoral Training or Out of Programme
Research
Academic Clinical Lecturer or Post-doctoral Academic Clinical
Fellow
/ Academic trainee
Identify a research supervisor.
Carry out an experiment.
Writing and submitting a grant application.
Identify a research topic.
Data interpretation and Statistical Analysis
Write a Fellowship application at an Intermediate or Senior
level
Critical appraisal of a paper or topic.
Co-author review article
Writing a thesis.
Define a research question.
Submit papers based on research
Observational and experimental research design
Write an Application for a Clinical Research Fellowship, small grant or
travel grant.
Knowledge of mechanism for commercialisation of
research outputs.
Develop a research proposal.
Present at a Journal Club
Research
Governance
Laboratory Safety.
Research Ethics and how it is monitored
(including COREC processes).
Clinical Trials/ Clinical trials legislation.
Complete Good Clinical Practice Training
NHS Structure and regulations
Completing the application for ethical
committee approval
Patient and Intellectual property issues.
Research and integrity (awareness of complex dilemmas
in scientific research)
Understanding of NHS R&D & Research
Networks
Information storage and retrieval.
Knowledge of Home Office and Animal Licenses.
Understand data protection issues.
Storage of human tissue.
Communication and
Education
Writing Skills
Write an abstract
Verbal presentation
skills
Present at local meeting
Present at national meeting
Present at an international meeting
Supervise junior academic trainees in presentation skills
AV presentation
skills
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Teaching Skills
Understand different teaching methods
Identify specific teaching area
Use different modalities of teaching effectively.
Involvement with undergraduate exams
Help co-ordinate undergraduate teaching course
Formal teaching of undergraduates
Supervision Skills
Supervise co-supervise Undergraduate/ Postgraduate research
student
Effective networking
and collaboration.
Publish a paper describing research study
Discuss project at lab meeting
Write a paper/ review.
Present at lab meeting
Collegiality/ ability
to work cooperatively and
creatively with
colleagues in a
research team.
Multisource feedback from academic staff
Multisource feedback from academic staff
Multisource feedback from academic staff
Involvement in appraisal of junior colleague
Outputs
Abstract
Review article
Thesis awarded
Draft of thesis written / thesis submitted
Application for grant funding/ travel scholarship/ fellowship
Peer-reviewed Paper
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