Academic Promotions Criteria for Third Stream Activity

Heather Squires

University of Bristol and NCCPE

What is known about the criteria for Academic promotions in UK HEIs in relation to 3rd stream

activity: KT, PE and leadership/management?

Synergies between Research, Teaching and 3rd Stream

Research Teaching

Third Stream

Public engagementKnowledge exchange

Leadership/management

Key Findings Individuals/Institutions

Context Diversity, Segmentation: emerging models Academic Promotions only part of the story

Motivations & Barriers Limited research: not financial Time Bureaucracy Rewards

Rewards Formal/informal mixExtrinsic/intrinsic

Skills Development For early career researchers it matters (reward)

Career Pathways ¼ of HEIs have pathways for staff in enterprise: ‘What it is to be an academic’?

Measurement Limited research on how best to measure: (enterprise) Long term, range of indicators important

Leadership and Management

Different institutional prioritiesLeadership at multiple levels key (training as reward)

Supports for Cultural Change

Skills developmenttraining

Measurement

RewardsIntrinsicExtrinsic

Career pathways

MotivationsIncentives

Recognition

Workload models

AwarenessSharing good practice

Promotion

Informal Formal

Challenges and Opportunities• Institutional MappingTailored approach, appropriate measures and models

• Changing Roles: “scholarship” – Unpacking what it means to be an academicA student? Non-academic staff?

• Changing Cultures Space to explore, document, support

• Supports: Individual, Institutional, Sector Adaptive, responsive, appropriate

• LearningFrom inside and outside: models from other HEIs, sectors, countries