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Professional Services staff are key to enabling the institution to achieve its wider strategic ambitions for research, education, and innovation and enterprise activities.
When reviewing your performance and development, consider how your role contributes to these areas of UCL’s academic progress and how you directly or indirectly influence its performance and reputation on national and international league tables:
Institutional citizenship
Institutional citizenship covers any activities which contribute directly or indirectly to promoting positive collegial behaviour across a department or faculty; as well as contributing to the effective running of the administration and governance of UCL. These may include the following:
Serving on departmental, faculty or institutional committees, including selection committees
Involvement in, or leadership of, culture change within a discipline or department
Coaching and mentoring within your department or faculty
Advancing equality, diversity and inclusivity for staff and students
Contributing to local or institutional policy development
Contributing to intra-departmental or cross-institution strategic activity
Coordinating or leading aspects of the university administrative function as they relate to a department or faculty
Raising the profile of UCL externally
Strengthening the diverse representation of staff and students
Education
Education activity refers to any activities which directly or indirectly optimise student learning, including:
Establishing new modules, programmes and short courses
Developing subject materials
Designing new learning and enhancements to the curriculum
Personal tutoring
Collaborating with professional bodies on course design and accreditation
Cross-disciplinary teaching
Teaching scholarship
Working with external partners that support learning, teaching and assessment development
Promoting and designing new opportunities for students to participate in research
Research
Research activity covers all aspects of the creation and application of new knowledge. Broadly speaking this includes:
The production and dissemination of research outputs, including informing policy through research insights
Supporting and nurturing early career researchers as well as the supervision of post-graduate research students
Enabling and leading research activities, including developing novel lines of enquiry, developing open science principles, maintaining the highest standards of research integrity
Collaborating nationally and internationally on cross-disciplinary research activities in relation to ‘big science’, clinical trials, education and social policy
Addressing equality, diversity and inclusion issues in research
Generating research income at a level appropriate to the discipline
Enterprise and external engagement
Enterprise and external engagement facilitates UCL’s impact on business and on the third sector. It typically focuses on the practical application of research discoveries and income-generating activity, in order to demonstrate the benefits realisation of UCL’s research and teaching, for example:
Leading knowledge exchange activities with external stakeholders who might otherwise not have access to higher education
Engaging with local, national and international organisations in relation to life culture/quality, communities, equality and social justice, as well as sector trends in education, healthcare, infrastructure, technology, environment, public policy, professional practice, commercial and social enterprise
