Target Grade 9

This document re-orders the UCL Academic Careers Framework document, grouping by Target Grade the activities and impact expected for each of the four domains: 

  1. RESEARCH 

  2. EDUCATION 

  3. ENTERPRISE & EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT 

  4. INSTITUTIONAL CITIZENSHIP 

We hope you will find it helpful if you are applying for promotion to Grade 9 within the Research, Academic or Teaching career paths at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology: 

  • Research: Principal Research Fellow 

  • Academic: Associate Professor 

  • Teaching: Associate Professor (Teaching) 

You can also find here general recommendations and some illustrative examples of activity and impact listed by UCL Queen Square IoN staff in their successful promotion applications. 

Threshold: an individual on this grade will demonstrate sustained and repeated contributions to subject area or body of knowledge, and a sustained publication record which demonstrates the potential to produce significant contributions to the discipline. All research outputs are available through Open Access wherever possible. 

Networks and reach: widespread connections across national and/or international subject community, including active collaborations/contact with leading figures in subject area; regular collegiate engagement with colleagues from distinct disciplines on cross-disciplinary issues; network of collaborators or advice-seekers in industry, healthcare or policy organisations (or similar, depending on discipline context); contacts and networks both domestic and international. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Research to be upgraded to Grade 9. 

Threshold: an individual on this grade will demonstrate active engagement with the interface between research and education and its implications for teaching within the discipline and participation in education activity with students at any level, with evidence of impact. All teaching activity is of a consistently high standard. 

Networks & Reach: colleagues in faculty; peers in subject field nationally.

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Education to be upgraded to Grade 9. 

Networks and reach: senior decision makers, thought leaders and those setting the agenda in public, private or third sector and media, including from outside the UK. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of  Enterprise and External Engagement to be upgraded to Grade 9. 

Networks and reach: faculty colleagues and student cohort; UCL colleagues outside the faculty 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of  Institutional Citizenship to be upgraded to Grade 9.