What are the Academic Career Pathways (ACPs)?
The Academic Career Pathways are designed to ensure that academic strengths across a broad range of activities, such as research, teaching, student experience, innovation, engagement, enterprise, leadership, management and broader collegiality are all appropriately recognised, developed, valued & rewarded.
Every academic colleague at every level, from Lecturer to Professor, is assigned to a particular pathway. The ACP criteria clearly indicate the activity and achievements required from colleagues at leach level, on each pathway, and are used as the basis for clear and transparent decision-making in academic recruitment, academic PDR, academic promotion and Professorial remuneration.
The purpose of this approach is to support all academic staff to work to their full potential, by ensuring that the requirements for working at every level on every pathway are clear and transparent for all colleagues, forming a consistent basis on which decisions are made and feedback is given.
The Pathways & Activity Areas
There are 3 pathways:
- Education
- Education & Research (which splits into 2 strands, depending on which area of activity colleagues focus more on)
- Education & Research (Education)
- Education & Research (Research)
- Research
Requirements on each pathway and at each level are defined and assessed across 4 activity areas:
• Education
• Research
• Innovation, Engagement & Enterprise
• Collegiality, Leadership, Management & Service
The Criteria
1. Education Pathway Criteria
2. Education & Research Pathway Criteria (Education Strand)
3. Education & Research Pathway Criteria (Research Strand)
4. Research Pathway Criteria.
Useful Links
• Academic Career Pathways Policy