Research and Researcher Development

In this section, you will be asked to provide information in the following sub-sections:

  • Grants: details of major external grants and contracts awarded (including values and dates) since your last promotion/appointment, together with the names of co-investigators where applicable. Please note, student awards cannot be classed as grant capture.
  • Publications: please see below for more details on this.
  • Research Talks: a list of major lectures/seminars, or other research presentations (with month and year), and details of postdoctoral and other researchers, including visiting academics, with whom you are or have been directly associated in the recent past. You will also be asked to indicate if you were the keynote/plenary speaker at any of your talks. Generally, keynote speeches are considered the primary speech, which sets the central theme of a conference, whereas plenary speeches cover a broad range of topics. However, in some disciplines, the terms keynote and plenary may be used interchangeably.
  • Research Associations and Collaborations: details of postdoctoral and other researchers, including visiting academics, with whom you are or have been directly associated in the recent past. These should be associations which you have been directly or primarily responsible for initiating (maximum of 1,000 words).
  • Other Scholarly Contributions: include any additional information about other contributions or work that you wish to be taken into account that has not already been set out in your application, i.e. other kinds of research or research-led outputs that are relevant to your discipline that have not been captured in your publications list, or another section of your application.  The outputs must be publicly available for consideration, and you must explain how the outputs are relevant to your research. Indicate if any of these are open access (free to read and reuse at no cost) by marking as ‘(open)’. You can discuss this with your Head of Institution, and/or a mentor.
  • Evidence of researcher development: details of how you have contributed to the development of other researchers or research groups. For example, through mentoring and guidance, leadership (formal or informal), training or teaching. When providing evidence of your contribution to researcher development, you must provide details of your own actions and input, and not the achievements of any researchers you may have supported.

Publications

You should include details of your publications, as follows:

  • An up-to-date list of publications, set out in accordance with the conventions of the relevant academic discipline.
  • The publications list must be structured into sections, including a section for peer-reviewed publications and a section for preprints and author accepted manuscripts which have a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
  • Within the sections referred to above, the publications list must be in a clear chronological order, stating for each publication (including any books) the year of publication, and page numbers (where available). Where relevant, you must clearly mark publications since your last promotion/appointment with an asterisk.
  • The publications list must include only outputs which are publicly available for consideration. Publications which have been “accepted and are in press” but are not yet publicly available must not be included in the publications list. However, if you would like to refer to an in-press publication in your personal statement (in addition to the four highlighted outputs (see here), you can do so.
  • Indicate which publications are open access (free to read and reuse at no cost) by marking as ‘(open)’. 
  • Work in progress but not yet completed must not be included.
  • Copies of publications must not be included.

Note: citation data is not a direct indicator of research quality. In line with the University’s guidance on the Responsible Use of Metrics in Research Assessment, while citation data may be included, applications will be assessed on the quality and the impact of the research itself, and not on the quantity or range of citations received. Consideration of an application will not be prejudiced if citation data are not included.

The points noted on this page are intended as guidance only. You are encouraged to follow disciplinary norms when preparing your publications list, which may differ from the above.

Outputs which can be included

All research and research-led publications that 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) can be included in your publications list. 

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 contribution should be listed in the “Other Scholarly Contributions” section of the application form (see above). 

Co-authored and multi-authored publications

You should provide details of your role and contribution in co-authored and multi-authored publications, as explained in the section on the personal statement.

*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 your community might be able to access it.