Target Grade 7

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

• Research: Research Fellow  
• Academic: N/A 
• Teaching: Associate 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. 

1. RESEARCH

Threshold: an individual on this grade will demonstrate detailed understanding and knowledge of the subject and contemporary research activities within it. All research outputs are available through Open Access wherever possible. 

Networks and reach: colleagues in department; informal links with staff in other institutions – typically national career-stage peer-group in discipline and immediate collaborators on projects. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Research to be upgraded to Grade 7. 

2. EDUCATION

Threshold: An individual on this grade will demonstrate successful contribution to the development of a subject’s teaching programme, with particular emphasis on the relationship between research and education. All teaching activity is of a consistently high standard. 

Networks and reach: Students, including those from diverse backgrounds; immediate colleagues in subject field. 

Read how other colleagues at the IoN evidenced their constributions in the area of Education to be upgraded to Grade 7. 

3. ENTERPRISE AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT

Networks and reach: Self and immediate colleagues; external clients as part of a team; informal links with peers 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 Exteernal Engagement to be upgraded to Grade 7. 

4. 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 7.