Target Grade 8

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 8 within the Research, Academic or Teaching career paths at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology: 

• Research: Senior Research Fellow 

• Academic: Lecturer 

• Teaching: Lecturer (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. 

RESEARCH

Threshold: an individual on this grade will demonstrate establishing oneself as an individual with the ability and potential to produce internationally-excellent independent, original, significant and rigorous research contributions to a subject area or body of knowledge. All research outputs are available through Open Access wherever possible. 

Networks and reach: colleagues in cognate subject areas outside department; PGR students within UCL; links across national and/or international subject community. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Research to be upgraded to Grade 8. 

EDUCATION

Threshold: an individual on this grade will demonstrate evidence of successful participation in education activity with students at any level, and of engagement with the implications of current research for programme delivery and design. All teaching activity is of a consistently high standard. 

Sphere of influence: colleagues in department; colleagues in cognate subject areas outside department; PGR students within UCL.  

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Education to be upgraded to Grade 8. 

ENTERPRISE AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT

Networks and reach: colleagues in department and cognate UCL departments; external clients; peers, decision-makers and senior advisers in industry, the public sector, civil society, media or other relevant stakeholders and organisations outside of academia. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of  Enterprise and External Engagement to be upgraded to Grade 8. 

INSTITUTIONAL CITIZENSHIP

Networks and reach: self and immediate colleagues; assigned students. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of  Institutional Citizenship to be upgraded to Grade 8.