R pathway: what to include in your application

When completing the application form for the R pathway, you will be guided through the following sections of the form:

  • Personal details, including your name, contact details and current position details.
  • Which post you are applying for, choosing from Research Professor at Grade 12, Clinical Research Professor, Research Professor (Grade 11) or Associate Research Professor (Grade 10).
  • You will be asked if your application is multidisciplinary.  If it is, your personal statement should explain the multidisciplinary nature of your work and indicate which institutions which your work mostly concerns.
  • You will be asked if you hold a clinical/NHS contract, or if you carry out clinical veterinary work. If you answer yes to either of these questions, please ensure you refer to these details in your personal statement. 
  • You will be asked if you believe that contextual factors should be taken into consideration when evaluating your application. More details on this can be found here.

Note: If you hold a Research contract in more than one institution, you may only apply for promotion in the institutions where there is funding available to support promotion. If there is funding available in both institutions, you will only need to submit one application form covering both posts. If there is funding available to support the promotion in one institution only, you will only be able to apply for promotion in that institution. 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

You must submit a copy of your CV with your application form.  This should be a concise CV of no more than two sides of A4 (500 words), including any annotations. If preferred, you can choose to provide a narrative CV but please ensure it still contains the information below to ensure consistency in the information received by committees.

Your CV must be attached as a separate document (in PDF format) to the application form.

Your CV should include the following:

  • Professional history, including all current and previous professional appointments held. Please include your role title, place of work, start dates and end dates (where applicable).
  • Education and Qualifications, including details of degrees, diplomas and/or other qualifications, and where and when obtained.
  • Appointments and Affiliations, including memberships of professional bodies, learned societies, advisory bodies, peer review activities (grants, journals, books etc), editorships etc, with start, and where relevant, end dates
  • Prizes, Awards and Honours, including elections to prestigious professional/scientific bodies, providing the full name of the awarding/electing body and the year of the award/election.