If you’re looking for information about how to gain recognition for your teaching by becoming a HEA Fellow, you’re in the right place.
IMPORTANT UPDATE! (DEC 2023)
Our Fellowship scheme is changing! We are currently transitioning to the new Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023). During this phase, we are ‘teaching-out’ our existing provision (UKPSF 2011) and will be starting with our new provision in September 2024.
Timeline
- Our final cohort (WHICH IS NOW FULL) starts in January 2024 and will be assessed in May 2024
- Between May 2024 and September 2024 we will be transitioning to PSF 2023 and ensuring that our pools of mentors and assessors are supported, developed and trained. There will be no mentoring or assessments taking place during this period.
- In September 2024, our first cohort using the new PSF 2023 will start, and this will be assessed in January 2025.*
*Please note that the Sept 2024 cohort is also now FULL. However, colleagues can request to join the waiting list or be added to the January-May 2025 cohort.
This website will be updated in May 2024. For further information between now and then, please contact TES@yorksj.ac.uk
The York St John University Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Framework brings together all our academic staff development into a single scheme that is mapped to the various descriptors (D) of the sector recognised UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). Much of the professional development work we offer, as well as our strategic thinking and academic promotion, is underpinned by the Professional Standards Framework (PSF).
We are accredited (2019-2023) by AdvanceHE to award HEA Fellowship through our own internal scheme which is led and managed by the Teaching Enhancement Team.
What this means for you is that we can assess staff in-house and award Fellowship recognition to those who are deemed to meet the professional standards at three of the descriptor levels: Associate Fellow (D1), Fellow (D2) and Senior Fellow (D3). Furthermore unlike a direct application to the AdvanceHE, it will cost you nothing!
Which category of Fellowship is right for you?
If you’re not sure which category of fellowship to make a claim against, try the Fellowship Category Tool. It doesn’t take long to complete and provides you with a report that you can use as the basis for an initial discussion.
If you are a York St John member of staff and would like to find out more about becoming a HEA Fellow, please contact TES@yorksj.ac.uk for more information.
Fellowship brings you a range of benefits:
We know that the impact of gaining HEA Fellowship can be very positive in terms of self-efficacy and career development (Cathcart et al., 2021) . Fellowship is recognised nationally and increasingly internationally, as a benchmark standard for those teaching and/or supporting learning within a Higher Education context. If you look at employment opportunities in HE, no doubt you will notice that having Fellowship is often a desirable, if not a required aspect of a person specification.
References
(2021) Tick-box, weasel words, or a transformative experience? Insights into what educators consider the real impact of HEA Fellowships, International Journal for Academic Development, DOI: 10.1080/1360144X.2021.1938075