This 25-min course, from the University of Glasgow looks at: the thinking behind a move towards narrative CV and assessment formats; how the research landscape and research assessment practices are evolving and efforts to develop fairer assessment approaches; advice and tips on what to include in a more narrative format; and examples from real narrative CVs, written by early-career researchers. This course is directed at early-career researchers, specifically those who are making use of the Resume for Researchers format (e.g., via the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding). Many funding agencies, the industry and corporate sector, and universities now require a more narrative-style CV to incorporate qualitative aspects into job applications (e.g. particularly in relation to describing input to publications, and the significance of these).
The goal of these formats is to help researchers to share their varied contributions to research in a consistent way and across a wide range of career paths and personal circumstances, and to move away from relying on narrowly focused performance indicators that can make it harder to assess, reward or nurture the full range of contributions that a researcher or academic makes to their field or discipline. This course helps researchers to structure, write, and craft a narrative CV to highlight and emphasize their individual academic accomplishments, contributions with a particular emphasis on 'how' they contributed rather than only 'what' they contribute.
- Subject:
- Education
- Higher Education
- Material Type:
- Module
- Reading
- Provider:
- University of Glasgow
- Author:
- Lab for Academic Culture at the University of Glasgow
- Date Added:
- 04/20/2022