The Academic Promotions Round for 2024/25 is open for applications from 2 December 2024 until 31 January 2025.
The annual Academic Promotion process provides academic staff with an opportunity to progress in their careers within Queen Mary. The expectation for successful progression is that the applicant provides evidence of their contribution to the university, in line with our 2030 Strategy and Values, at the level for which they are applying. The aim is for Queen Mary to be a truly inclusive University where everyone has the support and opportunity to build their careers.
Documents for the 2024/25 Academic Promotions round are provided below:
Application Form - Academic Promotion Application Form 2024-25 [DOC 101KB]
Guidelines - Academic Promotion Guidelines 2024-25 [DOC 158KB]
Academic Careers Framework- Academic Careers Framework 2024-25 [PDF 15,902KB]
Personal Circumstances Form - Academic Promotions Personal Circumstances Form 2025 [DOC 80KB]
School and Institute Promotion Group meeting pro forma- School and Institute Promotion Group meeting pro forma [DOC 22KB]
The application form must be emailed to your Head of School/Institute Director by 31 January 2025.
Heads of School/Institute Directors will then complete the Head/Director statement on the application and email this to the HR Reward & Benefits Administrator, rewardandbenefits@qmul.ac.uk, by 4 April 2025.
The full timetable is shown below:
Timetable
Announcement of the Academic Promotions round via e-bulletin
27 November 2024
Discussion of application with Head of School / Institute Director
December / January
Opening of application submission
2 December 2024
Application for Promotion document to be emailed to Head of School / Institute Director
Submission of Personal Circumstances Form (if applicable) to HR
31 January 2025
Personal Circumstances Panel
By mid-February 2025
School/Institute Promotion Group panel meetings
3- 21 March 2025
Head of School / Institute Director to complete statement on each Application and email the Application documents to Human Resources
By 4 April 2025
Submissions discussed at Faculty Panels
By end-May 2025
Email to all applicants informing them of whether their application will be subject to further consideration by Queen Mary
June 2025
The time between Faculty Panels and Academic Promotions Group will be used to seek expert opinions for applications for Professor who will be subject to further consideration.
Academic Promotions Group
By end-July 2025
Outcomes will be communicated
August/September 2025
The Academic Promotions Round will consider applications for:
To be eligible to make an application you need to meet all of the following criteria:
It is a requirement that all your mandatory training is up-to-date. You can find any core outstanding mandatory training on your home page of CPD training (including details of any that have expired and need renewal). There are some FAQs here: FAQ Mandatory Training - Human Resources.
Academic Promotion Faculty Briefings have been arranged as follows:
Medicine & Dentistry (FMD): Thursday 5 December 2024 15.00 - 16.00
Humanities & Social Sciences (H&SS): Wednesday 11 December 2024 10.00 - 11.00, Friday 13 December 2024 11.00-12.00
Science & Engineering (S&E): Wednesday 11 December 2024 13.30 - 14.30
You may book a place on the sessions using the CPD course booking system which can be accessed here. Please note that if you have not used this system before you will need to create an account. You can email rewardandbenefits@qmul.ac.uk if you need any help with this.
If you are unable to attend the session for your own faculty, you may attend one of the others but please note the session is chaired by the Faculty Vice-Principal or Deputy Vice-Principal and some information given may be specific to the relevant academic disciplines.
The slide deck for the Academic Promotions Briefings is attached below:
Academic Promotions Round 2024-25 Faculty Briefing [PPT 1,900KB]
Links to the recordings of the Academic Promotion Briefings are as follows:
FMD (all applicants) - Thursday 05 December: FMD Applicants Briefing
HSS (all applicants) - Wednesday 11 December: Link for HSS Academic Promotions (Applicants)-20241211_100423-Meeting Recording.mp4
S&E (all applicants) - Wednesday 11 December: Link (MS Teams) to S&E Academic Promotions Briefing meeting (applicants)-20241211_133415-Meeting Recording.mp4
HSS (T&S applicants) - Friday 13 December: Link for HSS Academic Promotions (T&S)-20241213_110634-Meeting Recording.mp4
We have also put together some Mentoring guidelines for those seeking academic career progression. Mentoring can support academic colleagues to progress their careers, by asking a more senior colleague to provide advice and act as a sounding board and role model. This guide, available below, provides some tips for mentees and mentors to get the most out of this relationship.
Mentoring for academic career progression [PDF 716KB]
In accordance with the Academic Promotions Guidelines, the Equality Diversity & Inclusion summary for the 2023-24 Academic Promotions Round can be viewed in the below document.
Academic Promotions EDI Summary Report for 2023-24 round [DOC 77KB]
Any advice regarding your readiness to apply for promotion should be sought from your manager. The Reward and Benefits team, rewardandbenefits@qmul.ac.uk , can be contacted with any queries with regards to the academic promotions process.