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Hi
I believe the situation here is half a day a month is given over to professional development, which in my case is used to help me complete my Masters.
We can attend conferences, etc depending on staffing levels and relevance to our specific positions, Academic Skills specifically, or other developmental aspects (e.g. leadership). There are some budgetary restraints
but as I haven’t asked to attend anything in Hawaii, this hasn’t been a problem as yet.
Colleagues may be able to give you more detail re contracts, etc but my contract and pay was not affected by my having attained HE Academy Ass Fellow status (achieved prior to employment here).
Hope this is of use.
Louise Livesey
HE Academy Associate Fellow
Academic Skills Adviser
Academic Skills Advice
University of Bradford
BD7 1DP
Tel: 01274 236863
Tel: 01274 236849 (Reception)
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Web: www.bradford.ac.uk/academic-skills
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Andrew Doig
Sent: 22 October 2014 14:28
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Subject: Research remission for LDers (and other non-academics)
Hi everyone
I am interested to know whether any of you working in Learning Development or other non-academic roles are given any remission from your regular working schedule in order to carry out and disseminate research. Also, is there any form of
contract of employment at your institution that recognises the research activity carried out by staff members in support roles, who are not on teaching or specifically research contracts?
Further, have any of your received an Associate Professor or Professor title, and if so, does that have any impact in terms of contract, pay scale or research remission?
The situation at Solent…
To start the comparison, I can tell you that research for non-academic staff is an ‘over and above’ activity, something that we are given allowance to carry out provided our line management views it favourably, and it very often requires
out of hours work to complete. There is a small amount of budget available for Professional Development, which can be allocated to conference attendance and other research and dissemination activities, but it is quite restricted (no international travel).
Further, although non-academic staff can receive Professorial titles, there is no change of contract, pay or remission of hours associated with this (it is worth noting that this lack of change also applies to academics on teaching contracts).
Cheers to you all
Andrew
Andrew Doig, Associate Professor
Instructional Developer
Learning Technologies
Southampton Solent University
East Park Terrace
Southampton
SO14 0YN
Tel: 023 8031 9187
http://portal.solent.ac.uk/andrewdoig/