Academic Progress and Development Review (PDR) Form

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Academic Progress and Development Review (PDR) Form

Name:
Job title:
School/ department:
Reviewer:
Date of this Review:
Date of last Review:

Academic Staff Progress and Development Review (PDR) Document

This PDR discussion, offered to every member of Academic staff, is intended to be supportive and developmental. It provides an opportunity to reflect, according to the member of staff’s needs, on areas including: current and future work, career aims, additional contribution they may wish to make at the College, and to identify and agree any support, development or other resources required to assist them in the course of their work. This document provides a flexible structure to guide this discussion.

The Reviewer completes this document to:

a)Make notes of any general points from the PDR discussion, where you and/or the Reviewee find it useful to do so, and

b)Record in the relevant section below any agreed support, development or resources to be provided for the Reviewee.

Staff who plan to seek promotion, or Reviewers who intend to suggest the consideration of promotion, may find it useful to refer to promotion guidelines on the HR website (see ). (Please note that the PDR process is independent of the College’s promotion procedure).

1.RESEARCH
General Notes: (e.g. areas of good/ excellent practice/ areas to consider for career progress)
Note agreed support, development or other resources for research activity and when this will be provided:
2.TEACHING
General Notes: (e.g. areas of good/ excellent practice/ areas to consider for career progress)
Note agreed support, development or other resources for teaching activity and when this will be provided:
3.ADMINISTRATIONAND ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT
General Notes: (e.g. areas of good/ excellent practice/ areas to consider for career progress)
Note agreed support, development or other resources for administration and when this will be provided:

I confirm that this discussion has taken place and that I have agreed to provide support, development or other resources required by the Reviewee as noted above:

Reviewer signature______Date______

I confirm that this discussion has taken place as noted above:

Reviewee signature______Date______

Instruction to the Reviewer:

Once the Reviewee has signed above, please forward this document to your Executive Dean for their information, entering your Executive Dean’s name below as confirmation that you have done so. Please keep a record of this fully completed form.

Name of Executive Dean______Date______

Note: Reviewer and Reviewee should both keep copies of this document for their records.

This document is not sent to or held centrally by any other department in the College.