Academic Promotion

Guidance and support for the next step in your career.

Academic Promotions Explained Events 2025/26

If you're considering applying for Academic Promotion, we encourage you to attend one of our Promotions Explained events.
Engineering Pathway 2025/26 – Pilot Year

This pathway provides a formal framework for recognising the unique contributions of engineering professionals engaged in collaborative industrial research and innovation, ensuring parity with existing Academic and Technical promotion routes.
Call for Volunteers

We would also welcome further volunteers to act as promotion advisers to guide candidates though the process, if you would be willing to act as an adviser, please email Academic Progression academicprogression@warwick.ac.uk

Key Dates

1 December 2025- Departments to notify Academic Progression of anticipated applications.
23 January 2026- Deadline for which applications
End of Summer term- Where possible outcomes will be communicated to applicants on or before the 31 July 2026.
1 August 2026- Date from which promotions are effective.

Promotions Advisors

A Promotion adviser will provide a second pair of eyes and offer advice and encouragement to help you make the best promotion case you can.

We have a network of promotion advisers to help those who are building their case for academic year 2025/26 year. Contact the Academic Progression Team academicprogression@warwick.ac.uk for further guidance, giving us a very brief indication of why this would be of particular benefit.
There is no deadline for requests but we’d encourage you to contact us as soon as possible so that we can match you to an adviser.

Guidance Documents

Criteria and Matrix

Summary profiles by pathway:

Guidance Documents

Templates Career Pathway Changes

For applications to change career pathway at the same level please use the following application form:

Academic Change of Career Pathway Application Form

For applications to change career pathway and to apply for promotion please use the following application forms:

Example Application forms

Technical Specialists Promotions Explained 2025/26

There will be a Promotions Explained event specifically for the Technical Specialist promotional pathway on Wednesday 29 October 2025, 12:30pm - 2:30pm

The session discusses the technical specialist promotional pathway in more detail. The information is open to all staff and specifically aimed at those technical staff who are either considering applying for promotion or supporting a colleague in applying for promotion.

Academic Promotion Explained Events 2025/26

The session discusses the promotions framework and its operation in more detail. The information is relevant to all staff and specifically aimed at those academic staff who are either considering applying for promotion or supporting a colleague in applying for promotion.

Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine - Friday 10 October 2025, 10am - 12pm

Faculty of Social Sciences - Tuesday 14 October 2025, 2pm – 4pm

Faculty of Arts - Wednesday 15 October 2025, 1pm -3pm

Teaching Focussed Pathway

The TR&R Learning Circle are pleased to share the output of some work conducted to support teaching focussed staff in developing their promotion applications. Below is a set of example activities and evidence that teaching focussed colleagues have previously used in successful applications across the spectrum of levels of promotion. These authentic, anonymised examples are intended to supplement the examples given within the University Academic Promotions Criteria documentation to support teaching focussed colleagues in articulating their evidence against the criteria.

Academic Promotions - Teaching Focussed

Teaching Focussed Professorial Career AdviceLink opens in a new window

Support for Impact, Outreach and Engagement on your Promotion Application

The Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) is dedicated to supporting all staff (across all pathways) with the impact, outreach and engagement elements of their promotion application. Click here to be taken to the dedicated promotion support webpages of the WIE site - where you will find further examples of activities that you could include, case-studies of successful applicants and notifications of upcoming workshops to support the drafting of the Impact, Outreach and Engagement elements of your application.

Success Stories!

The Warwick Institute of Engagement are happy to share the stories from colleagues who've been successful in their promotions applications, particularly using their Impact, Outreach and Engagement work to support their work.

You can also get in touch at wie@warwick.ac.uk