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Assessment criteria

Applications will be assessed against:    

  • The applicant's fit to the selection criteria in the Job Description. Applicants are encouraged to clearly demonstrate how their skills and experience align with the selection criteria. 

  • The strength of their proposed Fellowship programme. A competitive research proposal will be: 

    • Bold – aiming to deliver a significant shift in understanding and/or providing a significant advance over existing methodologies, tools or techniques. It will have the potential to stimulate new and innovative research. 

    • Novel – developing and testing new concepts, methods or technologies, or combining existing ideas and approaches in a new way. 

    • High quality – being well-designed, clear, supported by evidence and with feasible proposed outcomes/outputs. 

The University is committed to ensuring fairness, consistency, and transparency in its selection processes. All members of selection panels are briefed on the principles of equality of opportunity and the importance of acknowledging and mitigating unconscious bias. The selection panel will include both female and male members. 

Applicants who have taken career breaks or have had an unusual career path are welcome to disclose this in their application. The selection panel will take such circumstances into consideration, recognising that research output may be affected as a result. 

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