Application Form (T&S Pathway)
Applicants are responsible for completing and submitting the application form that will be sent to them at the launch of the round. The application form will need to be submitted via the online portal by the deadline specified in the Timetable. The application form will contain the dates of the period to be covered within the application. Applicants should provide clear evidence and examples that best support their case for progression, and which clearly demonstrate how they meet the Assessment Criteria (comprising both the Band Criteria, and Indicators of Excellence).
Applicants are encouraged to present their case for progression in a concise manner, avoiding duplication where possible.
Section 1 - Personal Statement
Applicants should use this section to provide a summary (approximately 1,000 words) of their case for progression and to highlight any significant contributions and/or achievements during the period covered by their application.
With regard to the evidence provided in Section C (Scholarship), applicants should highlight their key outputs in the period covered by their application, and should describe the significance in terms of their discipline, and of their contribution to them, in order to demonstrate the quality and value of the teaching and scholarship. Applicants are advised to limit these descriptions to 50-100 words per achievement. In addition, they should make clear their role and contribution in co-authored and multi-authored publications or multi-partner projects. Applicants might also wish to highlight key advances set out in their scholarship section, how their scholarship informs their teaching, and the benefit this has on their students.
Section 2 - Teaching
Applicants should demonstrate their contribution to teaching by providing a summary of teaching undertaken (whether for the University or College), the average number of hours per year and a summary of their contribution to the development and/or leadership of courses and/or curriculum.
If the applicant is engaged in veterinary clinical work, they should provide details of their contribution to postgraduate veterinary teaching and training. Any information provided about teaching will be considered under the teaching criterion and the information provided about clinical duties will be considered under the general contribution/service to the University and the Academic Community criterion.
Please note: teaching conducted primarily at the University of Cambridge and its Colleges should be included as part of the application.
Section 3 - Scholarship
Applicants should provide a non-technical statement on the progress of their scholarship, current projects and direction as well as any significant publications/impact during the period covered by their application.
Evidence in this section should focus on scholarly outputs which are publicly available for consideration (i.e. copies are obtainable at the time of application, or at some previous time, by members of the public through normal trade channels).
All research and research-led publications that are publicly available for consideration can be included in the application.
Examples of evidence of scholarship may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Textbooks for teaching aspects of the subject matter/discipline, which may be used in Higher Education or other sectors, or in professional/training contexts.
- Online teaching or learning materials (i.e. either for exploitation by educators or directly by students/learners) which teach aspects of the subject matter/discipline, for use in Higher Education or other sectors, or in professional/training contexts.
- Original research of an applied nature (e.g. pedagogic research into ways of teaching a particular subject/discipline), possibly but not necessarily derived from applied research into one’s own practice of teaching it in Higher Education.
- Original research of a more traditional nature.
For the avoidance of doubt, research conducted by T&S academics will be considered and assessed as scholarship.
The following should not be included:
- work in progress but not yet completed; and
- publications which have been “accepted and are in press” but are not yet publicly available.
3.1) Details of the most significant publications
Applicants should use this section to provide details of their most significant publications during the period covered by the application. This should be a general summary of the research and its impact.
Appending lengthy publication lists to the application is strongly discouraged.
3.2) Scholarly outputs that can be included in this section
It is recognised that in certain circumstances, a publication/output may not be publicly available, for example due to data confidentiality or ethical reasons. If this is the case, please explain briefly why the material is not publicly available and, if relevant, note any protocols by which others in the community might be able to access it.
In addition to publicly available research as listed above, applicants can include the following outputs:
Online learning and teaching resources
Links should be provided, clearly demonstrating how the resource is publicly accessible (e.g. via relevant web portals and/or licences). Where available, download data or access statistics should be provided or other evidence of take up or adoption.
Non-standard contributions
For disciplines where the communication of research results is not, or is only partly, in the form of conventional scholarly publication, other forms of contributions should be listed in the “Other” section of the application form.
Citation data
In disciplines where this is appropriate, citations may be included. Consideration of an application will not be prejudiced if citation data are not included. For the avoidance of doubt, applications will not be assessed on the basis of citation data/metrics alone, and these will be used in conjunction with qualitative indicators of research quality and impact, in line with the University’s guidance on the Responsible Use of Metrics in Research Assessment.
3.3) Grants awarded
Applicants should include details of major external grants and contracts awarded (including values and dates), both current and during the period covered by the application, together with the names of co-investigators where applicable. Please note that student awards cannot be classed as grant capture.
3.4) Talks and other scholarly associations
Applicants should include the details of major lectures/seminars, or other presentations that took place within the period covered by the application (please note the month and year that the activity took place). Applicants will also be asked to indicate if they were the keynote/plenary speaker for any of their talks.
Generally, keynote speeches are considered to be the primary speech, which sets the central theme of a conference, whilst plenary speeches cover a broad range of topics.
However, in some disciplines, the terms keynote and plenary are used interchangeably.
Section 4 - Service to the University and Academic Community
Applicants should provide a list of contributions, other than in teaching and scholarship, undertaken in their Institution/School/University and any service to the academic community outside the University that they wish to have considered.
This includes undertaking any additional University offices (e.g. Head of Department), committee membership and wider contributions to the University. Applicants can also provide a summary of their contribution to the broader academic community (e.g. government or public service, external examining, external PhD work, REF panel work, external professorial appointments committees, subject review panels in other universities, international conference organisation, or similar activities) within the period covered by the application.
This can also include service on any central University bodies, working parties, reviews, engagement in widening participation activity, the design and delivery of outreach programmes, contribution to the subject undertaken outside the University, editorial work, contribution to academic societies and meetings, details of research management, of research groups and the creation and management of multi-institutional national/international research facilities. It may also include public engagement work.
If an applicant holds an Honorary NHS consultant contract they should include details of their participation in regional and national committees (e.g., Royal Colleges, General Medical Council) and bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, as well as details of their clinical duties.
If the applicant is engaged in clinical veterinary work they should include details of their participation in regional and national committees and bodies concerned with postgraduate veterinary education, as well as details of their clinical duties in this section, if applicable.