HEA Fellowships
We are keen to support colleagues seeking our accredited portfolio route to HEA Fellowship.
Please view our guidance booklet aimed at D2 (Fellowship). We also have support material for those aiming for Associate Fellow (D1) and Senior Fellow (D3) of the HEA.
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Process of Applying for HEA Fellowship (D2)
Following amendments to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UK PSF), supporting materials for the new D2 (HEA Fellow) have been rewritten and institutional processes modified.
University of Derby Accredited route
Colleagues intending to take the accredited institutional route to Fellowship will have two opportunities per year to submit a portfolio of evidence, which will be scrutinised by a panel of experienced reviewers to verify the Standards have been met through evidence of personal professional practice. The first portfolio submission date is Wednesday 15th May, which is aimed (though not exclusively) at those who had previously started collating evidence. For those colleagues considering starting the process now, we recommend the second submission date Wednesday 30th October.
- Please read the university's guidance material in booklet form or PDF (www.derby.ac.uk/lei/learning-and-teaching/hea-fellowships) and the relevant content on the HEA website (www.heacademy.ac.uk/Fellow)
- Discuss your intended application with your School Learning &Teaching Advisor and your line manager.
- Decide a manageable date by which to submit. The university will in future accept portfolio applications twice per year (usually end May and end October).
- Check if any of your colleagues are also developing a portfolio: a support network has proven highly beneficial previously.
- Complete the application form on the LEI website (www.derby.ac.uk/lei/learning-and-teaching/hea-fellowships) to register interest.
- Start compiling your portfolio of evidence, ensuring your examples demonstrate how your academic experience has addressed the five Areas of Activity (A1-5), the six Aspects of Core Knowledge (K1-6) and the four Professional Values (V1-4).
- Reflect upon the context in which you work, the modules you have taught, the nature of your students and their modes of study. Write a narrative statement to insert at the front of the portfolio which signposts to the panel how the Standards have been addressed. This should consist of 500 words maximum. Start with a paragraph making your teaching context explicit, and the underlying principles which inform your work as an academic (100 words maximum).
Then identify four contrasting examples of teaching and learning as mini 'case studies' (100 words each) through which your portfolio evidence will be structured. It will be helpful to the panel to highlight through these which evidence will be used to demonstrate the five Areas of Activity, six aspects of Core Knowledge, and four Professional Values. Avoid description ('I did this...'), emphasising rather 'why I did this, what I learnt, what I will do differently next time'. - Submit portfolio to LEI before agreed deadline.
- The panel will aim to meet and scrutinise portfolios within one month of submission. Their decision will be a collaborative professional judgement of professional practice in learning, teaching and assessment.
Please contact your School Learning and Teaching Advisor or Chris Wakeman (Learning Experience Manager) in LEI for more details.
