The following notes are intended to help when submitting a Curriculum Vitae for Academic and Research Staff. The recommended format of the CV is as follows:

Personal Details:
Including full name, title, title of current appointment and department.

Education/Qualifications:
Details of degrees, diplomas and other qualifications, where and when obtained.

Career History
A complete account of all previous professional appointments held, with dates and in chronological order. Details of any visiting appointments or secondments

Membership of learned or professional societies:

Teaching:
(i) Departmental Duties:

List the lecture courses, laboratory exercises, tutorials, field courses etc. for which you were responsible during the last academic year (or previous year if on Leave).  Present the information in a table as follows.   If you do not regard this as a normal teaching year, indicate in which respects it is different.

(ii) Research Supervision:

Only the number of research students and successful and unsuccessful theses need be given. Please tabulate by year of initial registration, indicating year of submission as follows:

Current Research (MPhil/PhD) Students

Number of successful research students since 19zz:
Number of unsuccessful research students since 19zz:

(iii) Other Teaching:

Describe briefly any teaching you may do in other departments or outside your current university (eg access courses, open studies, continuing education etc). External examining of taught courses elsewhere may be included.

Research:

(i) Publications:

The publication list should indicate date, title, name of publisher, name of journal, names of co-authors, and order of authorship and LENGTH IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF PAGES. For publications in journals, please give the initial and final page numbers (eg pp 315-325) and, where appropriate, state whether these are refereed journals. In the case of books, state the actual number of pages.

State the nature of the publications eg books (monograph, co-authored, co-edited, chapters); articles; review articles; commissioned reports; conference proceedings; book reviews. A note of work in 'other media' such as non-text based materials, film, databases, software etc may be included where appropriate.   

Future publications and work in progress may be included, but please indicate whether or not the work has been accepted for publication; if it has, please give date and name of publisher/journal.

In all relevant cases co-authorship must be acknowledged and an indication given of the proportion of your contribution.

(ii) Support from Research Grants and Contracts:       

Please indicate whether you are the Principal Investigator. If you are not the PI, please state his/her name as well as the name of the institution where the grant is held. 

Present the information in a table as follows:

Number of postdocs:

Administration and other service:

Administration and contributions to your current and previous employer(s), for example: 

• responsibility for a specific area of activity within a department (eg admissions, examinations, timetabling, library provision, schools liaison etc);
• service at university level, e.g. membership or chairmanship of university committees, provision of student counselling or other support services;
• representing the university on external bodies;
• generating and managing within or between departments initiatives which contribute to the development of the university.

National and International Recognition:

For example prizes, invitations to address conferences or learned societies, external examinations of higher degrees, membership of a government commission or board of trustees etc.

Date Curriculum Vitae Prepared: