Transition from FA6-FA7
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Addressing progression from FA6 to FA7, the school created the Houlden Fellowships. In steady state, there are now twenty Houlden Fellows (FA6) in the department. These two-year post-doctoral positions, unique within the UoW, give researchers time to develop a profile commensurate with an Assistant Professor position at WBS or another leading institution. They were created following a pilot exercise where four WBS Research Fellows were hired across 2018/20 (100% female). Fully integrated into the subject groups, Houlden Fellows have a mentor, a research allowance, and they can apply for additional funding for data collection (no application has been refused). The majority of the Fellows have been female (14 from 21 or 67%), and have graduated from our PhD programme which has been restructured into a fully-funded MRes/PhD (2+4). We have thus curated an 8-year developmental period (2+4+2), which we believe is sector leading. Five of the first six people to progress from the Fellowships have taken academic posts, two are Assistant Professors at WBS. All have been female [2017AP.Achievement beyond 4.1.9]. Transition from FA7-FA8 We ordinarily hire between 10 and 20 Assistant Professors each year. They are typically international. For the first time in 2022/23, the majority of R&T faculty at this grade were female (53.2%, up from 30.2% in 2017/18). At the UoW, when R&T staff complete probation they are promoted to Associate Professor. Continuing to innovate, we have enhanced the resources given to probationers. Each has a professorial mentor, guidance of a Distinguished Research Environment Professor (DREP), a teaching and learning consultant, and workload relief equivalent to a year of study-leave across the probation period. Probationers
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