Group 1 - SFHEA

Senior Fellowship of the HEA

Recognition of your expertise

Senior Fellowship (SFHEA) offers you many benefits, including:

  • Consolidating your personal development and evidence of influencing other colleagues’ professional practice in your higher education career;

  • Demonstrating your commitment to teaching, learning and the student experience, through engagement in a practical process that encourages research, reflection and development;

  • Senior Fellowship is increasingly sought by employers across the education sector as a condition of appointment and promotion for management and leadership positions;

  • For individuals, to identify their expertise with the entitlement to use post-nominal letters – SFHEA;

  • Recognised and valued by a growing number of international institutions.

To achieve Senior Fellowship of the HEA (now Advance HE) you need to evidence descriptor 3 (D3) of the UKPSF

Getting started

Your application for Senior Fellowship (6,500 words) consists of an Account of Professional Practice (APP), which includes:

· A Reflective Account of Practice (RAP)

· Two case studies of professional practice (CAS)

Go here to download your information pack and begin your online application (you can take as long as you like over completion). You will need to apply online by creating a MyAcademy account. Full details and guidance about how to apply can be obtained by requesting an information pack.

Look at the Senior Fellowship Guidance Notes

Read this one-page document - 'Senior Fellowship in Brief' - and the associated video below from Lydia Arnold

For the award of Senior Fellow, the applicant must demonstrate that their HE practice evidences all Areas of Activity, Core Knowledge and Professional Values of the UKPSF. In addition, Senior Fellows need to demonstrate the co-ordination, support, supervision, management and/or mentoring of others - over a sustained period of time. Lydia Arnold (Educational Developer at Harper Adams University, and National Teaching fellow) has created a 'Senior Fellow Readiness Assessment task' that it might be helpful to complete

Funding

In MAH there is funding available for applications for SFHEA and similar professional accreditation schemes. There’s a form to fill in here: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/media-arts-humanities/internal/staff/staffexperience/cpd.

Watch

(click to watch the video by Lydia Arnold)


UKPSF-recognition-slides-2015-w.pptx

Look

at slides 30-51 to gain an overview of how to apply for Senior Fellowship

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Are-you-Eligible-to-Apply-for-Senior-Fellowship-of-the-HEA.docx

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'Are you Eligible to Apply for Senior Fellowship of the HEA'

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SFHEA BMEc.pdf
SFHEA Mark.pdf
SFHEA BMEc2.pdf
SFHEA Education.pdf

Look

at these Four SFHEA submissions from University of Sussex staff

See also Jane Secker's application

sfhea-planner.docx

Download

this planner

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Read

1. Interesting study that draws on the theoretical frameworks of genre theory and writing expertise to explore how educators manage and excel in writing for professional recognition.

2. Blog post - lydiaarnold.net Learning, teaching, technology, assessment & research JULY 23, 2018LYDIAARNOLD:

D3vii – the Achilles’ Heel of Senior Fellow Applications

In my experience, Senior Fellow (SFHEA) applicants often struggle to show D3vii – this is the criterion that relates to supporting and influencing others.

D3vii is a key differentiator between Senior Fellowship and Fellowship. It is therefore really important!

I have created five quick steps (below) to help engagement with D3vii, to help go beyond superficial statements, towards a deeper consideration of the nature of personal impact and the means by which influence occurs. When thinking about practice consider using the following five steps to deepen the narrative.

Some reasons why applications for SFHEA are unsuccessful

Should your application be judged as providing insufficient evidence for meeting the criteria, it will be referred back to you with constructive advice on how to revise it effectively. If the panel agree that limited additional evidence and/or only minor changes to your application are required to meet the criteria, your resubmission will be assessed by the same panel. If major revision and/or substantial additional evidence is required on a written route application, your resubmission might be sent to a different set of reviewers.

Referees:

  • Your completed Account of Professional Practice needs to be supported by 2 independent Referee's Reports, click here to find out more about references.