The titles of Affiliated Assistant Professor, Affiliated Associate Professor, and Affiliated Professor, are awarded via one of three routes, namely ‘Predominantly teaching’, ‘Predominantly research’, or ‘Impact’. The eligibility criteria for the ‘Predominantly research’ route is detailed below.
Affiliated Assistant Professor – Predominantly Research
Applications for the award of title of Affiliated Assistant Professor through the ‘Predominantly research’ route, will be considered with regard to the following criterion:
Consistently conducts rigorous research addressing significant questions, contributing new ideas and advancing the boundaries of the field, whilst ensuring the highest standards of research integrity are promoted and maintained.
With reference to this criterion, individuals will be expected to be making a sizeable contribution to research within the School. This contribution will be assessed by reference to the outputs from the individual’s research programme, possibly integrated with University academics and senior researchers (PRA/DoR) in established collaborations. In addition, strategic leadership relevant to a speciality area or which facilitates University-NHS Trust research collaboration is eligible for consideration.
Some possible indicators of excellence for this criterion are given below, but please note these are just examples, and individuals should reference the criterion and provide their own evidence against it, in their applications. It is recognised that applicants for affiliated titles are likely to be substantively employed outside the Higher Education sector, and both the volume and the nature of their contributions, and the evidence for those contributions, will be considered accordingly.
Example indicators of excellence:
- A portfolio of high quality research outputs that are nationally recognised as excellent
- Research outputs may include academic publications, and/or innovation in clinical practice, and/or technical innovation/analytics
- Evidence of collaborative work with University Principal Investigators
- Invitations to present work externally
- Invitations to join research consortia
- Supporting the supervision of Cambridge research students, for example as second supervisor, advisor, or as part of a supervisory team
Affiliated Associate Professor – Predominantly Research
Applications for the award of title of Affiliated Associate Professor through the ‘Predominantly research’ route, will be considered with regard to the following criterion:
Consistently conducts rigorous research addressing significant questions, contributing new ideas and advancing the boundaries of the field, whilst ensuring the highest standards of research integrity are promoted and maintained.
With reference to this criterion, individuals will be expected to be making a significant contribution to research within the School. This contribution will be assessed by reference to the outputs from the individual’s independent research programme, which will be expected to include strong collaborations with University academics or senior researchers (PRA/DoR). At this level, individuals would be expected to have an emerging international reputation in the field. In addition strategic leadership relevant to a speciality area or which facilitates University-NHS Trust research collaboration is eligible for consideration.
Some possible indicators of excellence for this criterion are given below, but please note these are just examples, and individuals should reference the criterion and provide their own evidence against it, in their applications. It is recognised that applicants for affiliated titles are likely to be substantively employed outside the Higher Education sector, and both the volume and the nature of their contributions, and the evidence for those contributions, will be considered accordingly.
Example indicators of excellence:
- Independent research programme
- Evidence of collaborative work with University Principal Investigators
- A portfolio of high quality research outputs that are nationally recognised as excellent
- Research outputs may include academic publications, innovation in clinical practice, and technical innovation/analytics
- Invitations to present work externally
- Invitations to join research consortia
- Emerging international reputation in the field, as evidenced by outputs
- Supporting the supervision of Cambridge research students, for example as second supervisor, advisor, or as part of a supervisory team
Affiliated Professor – Predominantly Research
Applications for the award of title of Affiliated Professor through the ‘Predominantly research’ route, will be considered with regard to the following criteria:
Consistently conducts rigorous research addressing significant questions, contributing new ideas and advancing the boundaries of the field whilst ensuring the highest standards of research integrity are promoted and maintained (Criterion 1)
Contributes to high-quality research leadership and supports an inclusive and productive research culture (Criterion 2)
With reference to these criteria, individuals will be expected to be making a substantial contribution to research within the School. This contribution will be assessed by reference to the outputs from the individual’s independent research programme which will be expected to include strong collaborations with University academics or senior researchers (PRA/DoR). Outputs may include academic publications, translational impact, and technical innovation. At this level, individuals would be expected to have an established international reputation in the field. In addition strategic leadership relevant to a speciality area or which facilitates University-NHS Trust research collaboration is eligible for consideration.
Some possible indicators of excellence for these criteria are given below, but please note these are just examples, and individuals should reference the criterion and provide their own evidence against it, in their applications. It is recognised that applicants for affiliated titles are likely to be substantively employed outside the Higher Education sector, and both the volume and the nature of their contributions, and the evidence for those contributions, will be considered accordingly.
Example indicators of excellence:
- Independent research programme
- Evidence of collaborative work with University Principal Investigators
- A portfolio of high quality research outputs that are internationally recognised as excellent
- Research outputs may include academic publications, innovation in clinical practice, and technical innovation/analytics
- Established international reputation in the field, as evidenced by outputs
- A track record of winning competitive research funding
- Invited to present work at major national and international conferences and institutions
- Makes a significant contribution to collaborative research projects
- Participation in high-quality public, industrial and/or policy engagement activities linked to research
- Promotes and maintains high standards of research integrity
- Clinical candidates – contributes to international and national healthcare policy and guidelines, for example, NICE guidelines, World Health Organisation policy, governmental policy
- Supervision of Cambridge research students, potentially as principal supervisor, but also as second supervisor, advisor, or as part of a supervisory team
