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- What is Consultancy?
- What is Knowledge Transfer Partnership?
- What is Secondment to non-HEI?
- What is Mentoring?
- What is Contribution to Policy?
- What is CPD Provision?
- What is Media Appearance?
- What is Public Engagement?
- What is Industrial Advisory Role?
- What is Registered IP?
- What is Licensing?
- What is Spin-Out?
- What is Social Enterprise?
- What is Provision of Materials/Products?
- What is Conference Organisation?
- What is Invited Speaker?
- What is Invited Contributor?
- What is Named Lecture?
- What is Election to a Learned Society?
- What is Award?
- What is Fellowship?
- What is Honour?
- What is Honorary Degree?
- What is Honorary Doctorate?
- What is Honorary Professorship?
- What is Lifetime Achievement?
- What is Medal?
- What is Prize?
- What is Professional Body Membership?
- What is Participant in Academic Collaboration, Network or Consortia?
- What is Research Co-ordination?
- What is Visiting Academic at HEI?
- What is Usage of Major Scientific Facility?
- What is Editorial Role?
- What is Leadership Role?
- What is External Examiner Role?
- What is Peer Review Role?
Consultancy
Remunerated services undertaken additionally to your role at UCL; for a definition see consultancy guidelines.
Example
Title: Geodetic Advice
Organisation: UCL Consultants
Description: Consultancy to an international government’s “Lands and Surveys” department
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Undertaking or supervising in a formal KTP sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, see UCL Enterprise.
Example
Title: Applying GIS to healthcare statistics
Organisation: Dr Foster Ltd
Description: Supervision of KTP associate in expanding the scope of the company’s software products and supplementing its existing analysis and visualisation tools as a means of expanding its market potential.
Secondment to non-HEI
Undertaking or supervising a placement in a non-HEI organisation as part of your UCL employment, to fulfil a specific research purpose, normally for a number of months
Example
Title: Knowledge Transfer Secondment
Organisation: QinetiQ
Description: Supervision of secondee in EPSRC sponsored placement to transfer model of prediction of aircraft icing to industry.
Mentoring
Providing mentorship in a non-HEI organisation, including through the UCL Advances programme.
Example
Title: SMILE project
Organisation: AAAS Steering
Description: Providing advice on technology entrepreneurship
Contribution to policy
Contribution to the development of public policy, including provision of advice, briefings, taking part in a policy commission
Example
Title: Wilson Review of University- Business Interactions
Organisation: Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
Description: Participated as member of the Review Panel
CPD provision
Provision of continuing professional development training to a non-HEI organisation or practitioners
Example
Title: APMP
Organisation: UCL Management Science & Innovation
Description: Delivering training towards recognised project management qualification to project management practitioners from industry
Media Appearance
Appearance in a broadcast media production such as a TV or Radio interview, appearance in a documentary film, presentation of a documentary series or similar such work.
Example
Title: Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball
Organisation: BBC
Description: Contribution to this documentary recreating the Netherfield ball, reflecting on the importance of the ball and its role in society.
Public engagement
Significant work or events promoting the individuals’ research or area of expertise to the non-specialist public audience through outreach, public lecture, exhibitions, workshops or any other method of promotion.
Example
Title: Nordic Noir
Organisation: Public Engagement Unit
Description: Scandinavian Book Club, funded by a Beacon Bursary. See Scancrime Word Press.
Industrial Advisory Role
Role on advisory board, regulatory authority, esteemed position in trade association or professional body or similar industrial advisory role.
Example
Title: Public member
Organisation: Network Rail
Description: One of about 70 private individuals chosen by a selection panel to assist in the corporate governance.
Registered IP
Registration as the inventor of intellectual property arising from research undertaken at UCL through patenting, trademarks etc. Do not disclose detail unless registration is granted and in the public domain.
Example
Title: Patent no. PCT/GB96/01497
Organisation: UCL Business
Description: On-Belt Tomosynthesis - a Low cost 3D Imaging System
Licensing
Licensing of registered intellectual property or software to a non-HEI organisation for non-academic use. Do not disclose licensee unless in the public domain.
Example
Title: Gene Therapy for Haemophilia A
Organisation: BioMarin
Description: License of Factor VIII gene therapy programme.
Spin-out
Creation of a formal UCL spin-out company through UCL Business
Example
Title: Endomagnetics Ltd
Organisation: UCL Business
Description: Founder and the current CTO. Founded to solve cancer staging and healthcare challenges through the application of advanced magnetic sensing technology and nanotechnology, Endomagnetics is developing a portfolio of medical device products based on a patented ability to detect magnetic materials in the human body with exceptional sensitivity.
Social Enterprise
Creation of a social enterprise to arising from research undertaken at UCL
Example
Title: Mapping for Change
Organisation: UCL Business
Description: Co-founder and Director. Mapping for change provides mapping, geographical analysis and community engagement services for all types of projects and entities. We transform an organisation through the power of the map.
Provision of Materials/Products
Commercialisation through the provision of materials, products, or devices
Example
Title: Graduated Sports Compression Socks
Organisation: Evexar Medical Ltd
Description: Designer and consultant
Conference organisation
A significant role in the organization of an academic conference such as the general or programme chair of a major international conference, a long standing committee member of a conference series or other significant input into a conference or conference series. Please put the conference title in the title field, and note in the description if your role was invited.
Example
Title: Eating Disorders International Conference 2012
Organisation: Academy of Eating Disorders
Description: Chair of the local organising committee
Invited Speaker
A specifically invited attendance at a conference, conference series, workshop or seminar. This would also include activities such as the public presentation of research or a speaker at a notable public event or similar public appearance. Please put the event name in the title, and put the talk title in description, noting if it was a plenary or keynote.
Example
Title: "Sensing the City" symposium
Organisation: Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Description: Keynote address and papers “Cities of Possibility,” “Sensing the City” and “Skateboarding in the City"
Invited Contributor
A specifically invited contribution to a journal, series of monographs or a specifically invited contribution to an exhibition or public display of work. This would also include such items as the production of a forward of a book, introduction to an exhibition catalogue or acting as an invited curator.
Example
Title: ‘The Gaze of the Auto-Icon’ at The Big Draw
Organisation: Welcome Trust
Description: Invited workshop and interactive exhibit in collaboration with Mobile Studio
Named Lecture
Delivery of a specific named lecture or lecture series often in honour of an individual or individuals e.g. Royal Aeronautical Society – Whittle Lecture, The Reith Lectures.
Example
Title: Francis Crick Lecture
Organisation: Royal Society
Description: “Decoding Consciousness”
Election to a learned society
An elected Member or Fellow of a Learned Society where the elevation is accorded by a ballot of the individuals own academic peers. If not elected, please classify as Professional Body membership. Please put the title conferred in the title field.
Example
Title: Fellow
Organisation: Royal Society
Award
An award received from a learned society, professional body, media organization, trade body or other enterprise that is generally regarded as recognition of excellence in the individual’s field of research or related field.
Example
Title: Paper of the Year award
Organisation: Lancet
Description: For Whittington, C. J., Kendall, T., Fonagy, P., Cottrell, D., Cotgrove, A., & Boddington, E. (2004). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: systematic review of published versus unpublished data. Lancet, 363 (9418), 1341-1345.
Fellowship
A significant award to pursue independent study from a funder of research. This type of esteem item would normally be expected to apply to fellowships awarded to experienced and esteemed academics and specifically exclude early career fellowships received by Post Doctoral students.
Example
Title: Dream Fellowship
Organisation: EPSRC
Description: Rethinking the relationship between ageing, computing and creativity
Honour
An Honour granted by a National or State Government, Head of State, Pan National Organisation or similar e.g. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Example
Title: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Organisation: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Description: In recognition of work on civil justice, awarded in Queen's Birthday Honours List
Honorary Degree
Honorary Degree award from a Higher Education Institution with degree awarding powers.
Example
Title: Honorary MA
Organisation: University of Oxford
Honorary Doctorate
Honorary Doctorate award from a Higher Education Institution with degree awarding powers.
Example
Title: Honorary DLett
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Honorary Professorship
An Honorary Professorship at a Higher Education Institution
Example
Title: Honorary Distinguished Professor, Visual Science
Organisation: University of Cardiff
Lifetime Achievement
Any award received that specifically recognises ‘Lifetime Achievement’
Example
Title: Lennox Prize 2010
Organisation: American Epilepsy Society
Description: This is an annual prize awarded for lifetime achievement. There is one award a year, and this is the Society's senior prize.
Medal
Similar in to those esteem items categorised as ‘Awards’. Allows easy classification of an award where Medal specifically appears in the title of the award.
Example
Title: Gaddum Memorial Medal
Organisation: British Pharmacological Society
Description: Awarded biennially for research in Pharmacology over 15 years
Prize
An award or medal where there has been a significant competitive element to the award, or where Prize specifically appears in the title of the award. Items of esteem that record secondary and tertiary placings could also be categorised by this esteem type.
Example
Title: Stirling Prize
Organisation: RIBA
Professional Body Membership
Used for membership is entirely by subscription or maybe a pre-requisite for professional recognition rather than a measure of esteem. See “election to a learned society” for an alternative.
Please chose one of the following options:
Affiliate Member
Associate Member
Chartered Member
Elected member
Fellow
Honorary Member
Life Member
Member
It is not necessary to add a title for these fields.
Example
Type: Life Member
Title:
Organisation: American Philological Association
Participant in academic collaboration, network or consortia
A position participating in research across multiple institutions, or disciplines.
Example
Title: Doctoral Training Centre in Photonic Systems Development
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Research co-ordination
A position in co-ordinating research across multiple institutions, or disciplines by promoting joint workshops, hosting seminar series, co-ordinating the research outputs of different laboratories or enabling significant joint endeavour. Please put the name of collaboration in the title field and your role in description.
Example
Title: North East and North Central London Comprehensive Research Network
Organisation: NHS
Visiting academic at HEI
A visiting academic position at an institution other than the home HEI of the individual.
Example
Title: Invited Visiting Professor
Organisation: Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Research
Usage of major scientific facility
Usage of major national and international facilities (e.g. computer time, beam time, telescope time, awarded after competitive review by a panel of internationally recognised experts
Example
Title: Large Hadron Collider
Organisation: CERN
Editorial Role
Editor or Assistant Editor of a journal; Editor in Chief of a journal or journal series; member of editorial board of journal or book series and other significant editorial related activity. Please put the journal title in the title field an your role in the description.
Example
Title: Journal of Facilities Management
Organisation: Emerald group Publishing
Description: Appointed to Editorial Board
Leadership Role
Academic leadership roles in industry, commerce, Research Councils, learned societies or professional bodies, university research advisory panels.
Example
Title: UK RAE Sub-Panel
Organisation: HEFCE
Description: Member of Sub-Panel 17 for Earth Sciences
External Examiner Role
External examiner for a Doctoral Thesis
Example
Title: EngD examiner
Organisation: University of Sheffield
Description: Thesis entitled “Finish machining of novel high strength aerospace materials”
Peer Review Role
Undertaking a peer review role. Please put the name of panel in the title field and role (chair, member...) in description.
Example
Title: Research grant review
Organisation: ESRC
Description: Member of Peer Review College