Further Information
Guidelines
- Role of Deans guidelines
- Deans are responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for the academic leadership and management of the faculty.
- Role of Professors guidelines
- Traditional understandings of the professorial role have changed in recent years.
- Heads of School guidelines
- The critical role played by Heads of School in achieving the mission and objectives of the University and forming part of the University’s senior leadership group.
Academic titles
A list of academic titles based on role.
UWA has a number of policies, procedures and guidelines covering academic titles and the roles and responsibilities of senior academics.
- Teaching and research and research intensive titles
- Academic titles at The University of Western Australia.
- Adjunct and clinical academic titles
- Recognising significant contributions to the activities of the University.
- ARC and NHMRC Fellows
- Titles which can be conferred on ARC and NHMRC fellows.
- Mid-career and Senior Fellows
- Providing ongoing positions to employees who gain mid-career and senior fellowships.
- Senior Honorary Fellow / Senior Honorary Research Fellow
- Providing opportunities for retiring/retired academics to continue their work with benefits to their discipline and the University.
- Honorary appointments
- Recognising a formal association with the University which is considered advantageous to both the University and the appointee.
- Visiting appointments
- Recognising a formal association with the University which is considered advantageous to both the University and the appointee.
- Emeritus Professor
- Recognising professors who have provided long-standing service to the University.
- Academic titles for Principal Investigators and Directors of Research Centres
- The University's policy on the conferal of academic titles on research fellows from the Australia Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council.
- Professorial Fellows
To make the existing career structure more flexible, and to create more options for recognising and rewarding its academic contributors, the University has introduced a category of academic staff entitled the Professorial Fellow.
- Grant funded staff
- There are common classification levels for research grant funded staff. This page provides guidance on the typical levels for academic and general roles.
University information
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