US5 – Identifying role aspirations
Identifying role aspirations can be useful when planning your career. The following roles were mentioned again and again by participants as significant to their career aspirations, development, trajectory.
| Associate Dean | Associate Professor | Dean |
| Demonstrator | Deputy Vice-Chancellor | Executive Dean |
| Framework Leader | Head of Function | Head of a Research Centre |
| Head of Department | Lecturer / Academic | Principle Lecturer / Academic |
| Pro Vice-Chancellor | Professor | Programme Co-ordinator |
| Reader | Researcher | Senior Lecturer / Academic |
| Technologist | Tutor | Vice-Chancellor |
Conversation starters:
- Which of the roles above do you aspire to?
- Which role will help you to create a step change in your career?
- Which roles will you need to fulfil to achieve the role that you aspire to?
- What knowledge, experience and attributes would you require for these roles? How could you fill any gaps in your own profile?
- Who could help you?
- Are there other roles you would like to add?
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