Academic career paths
Senior lecturer
Senior Lecturers are expected to make 'a more significant' contribution in any two of the three areas. This might include:
Research and scholarship
- a high quality of publications
- supervision of an above average number of research students
- external recognition at a national or an international level
- research having a wider impact beyond the furtherance of academic knowledge
- substantial engagement in knowledge transfer and commercialisation activities
- substantial engagement in disseminating academic research to the wider public
Teaching and the promotion of learning
- excellent or very good quality teaching, learner support (including supervision) and assessment and feedback practices
- leadership in teaching, learning and assessment
- professional recognition of expertise in relation to teaching, learning and assessment practices, including particular innovations
Other forms of service
Success in posts of significant responsibility and leadership. These might include being Chair of the Board of Studies/Examiners, Senior Admissions Tutor, managing a sizeable research group, chairing a University committee, membership of a particularly arduous University committee, organising a prestigious national conference, or a leadership role in a professional body.