T&S pathway: what to include in your application

When completing the application form, you will be guided through the following sections:

  • Personal details, including your name, contact details and current position details.
  • Which office/post you are applying for, choosing from (Teaching) Professor at Grade 12, Clinical (Teaching) Professor, (Teaching) Professor (Grade 11) or Associate (Teaching) 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 your work mostly concerns.
  • You will be asked if you would like your College Teaching to be considered as part of your application
  • 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.
  • If you are applying for a (Teaching) Professorship (Grade 11 or 12) or a Clinical (Teaching) Professorship, you will be asked to provide the proposed title for your (Clinical) (Teaching) Professorship, should your application for promotion be successful. Your title should be relevant to your field, and you must discuss and agree the proposed title with your Head of Institution before submitting your application.

Note: If you hold more than one T&S contract, your application for promotion will apply to all T&S contracts you hold. Where the grades are different, you will be promoted to the higher grade of all roles, in all institutions.

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 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 (where applicable) end dates.
  • 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 award/election.