Dear Colleagues
I am a senior lecturer in an overseas university and am looking at promotion criteria. Normally promotion in academic insitutions is based on satisfactory performance in the three pillars of administration, research and lecturing.
Traditionally one way of assessing research was to look at publications in peer reviewed journals. However today the academic in biomedical sciences and engineering is encouraged to achieve industrial collaboration and attract external funds such as those from the EU. These often are governed by patents and more importantly industrial agreements that obviously preclude publications in traditional journals. How do modern academic institutions handle this issue? What weighting is given to success in attracting funding/ achieving patents? Is a patent equal to a publication?
Also one of the more interesting criteria for promotion is the number of conferences organised by the academic. How widespread is this application of this criterion among Universities in the UK?
I would appreciate any feedback and I can be contacted at [log in to unmask]
Thanks
Dr Marion Zammit-Mangion
Senior Lecturer
University of Malta
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