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In order to apply for Associate Fellowship of the HEA through Keele’s HEA Fellowship CPD Route, you will need to be a member of staff with a minimum of 6 months experience in a role which includes some teaching and/or supporting learning responsibilities, and with at least 25 hours experience of front-line delivery to learners. Your application will need to demonstrate:

• Your engagement in and effectiveness in relation to, your teaching and/or supporting learning roles and responsibilities.
• Your understanding of specific aspects of effective teaching, learning support methods and student learning.
• Your practice meets all six areas of Descriptor 1 of the UKPSF.

Examples of staff who may wish to apply

• Staff new to teaching, with a limited teaching portfolio, teaching part-time & sessional teachers.
• Early career researchers with some teaching responsibilities, e.g. PhD students, Graduate Teaching Assistants, contract researchers, post-doctoral researchers, research associates, etc.
• Staff who support academic provision and have some teaching-related responsibilities, e.g. learning technologists, technicians, demonstrators, learning developers, library staff.

Please note: if you are already undertaking Module 1 of the MA Higher Education Practice (MA HEP), you will receive HEA Associate Fellowship status upon successful completion.

In order to apply for Fellowship of the HEA through Keele’s HEA Fellowship CPD Route, you will need to be a member of staff with a minimum of two years’ broad-based experience of teaching and/or supporting learning. Your application will need to demonstrate:

• Your engagement in and effectiveness in relation to, your broad-based teaching and/or supporting learning roles and responsibilities.
• Your broad understanding of effective approaches to teaching and learning support as a key contribution to high quality student learning.
• You can critically reflect on your practice.
• Your practice meets all six areas of Descriptor 2 of the UKPSF.

Examples of staff who may wish to apply

• Early career academics.
• Staff who support academic provision (e.g. learning technologists, technicians, demonstrators, learning developers, library staff) and hold substantive teaching and learning responsibilities.
• Experienced academics relatively new to UK higher education.

Please note: if you are already undertaking Module 1 and 2 of the MA Higher Education Practice (MA HEP), you will receive HEA Fellowship status upon successful completion.

Further information about the UKPSF and examples of the types of evidence you might provide to demonstrate how your professional experience aligns to Fellow is available on the UKPSF Evidence - Fellowship PDF (345 KB)

In order to apply for Senior Fellowship of the HEA through Keele’s HEA Fellowship CPD Route, you will need to be a member of staff with substantial experience of leadership roles/responsibilities* related to teaching and/or supporting learning. Your application will need to demonstrate:

• Your sustained engagement in and effectiveness in relation to, your teaching and/or supporting learning roles and responsibilities AND your leadership roles/responsibilities related to teaching and/or supporting learning.
• Your thorough understanding of effective approaches to teaching and learning support as a key contribution to high quality student learning.
• You can critically reflect on your practice.
• Your practice meets all seven areas of Descriptor 3 of the UKPSF.

Examples of staff who may wish to apply

• Experienced academic staff with significant responsibility for organising, leading, and/or managing specific aspects of teaching and learning provisions.
• Experienced subject mentors and staff who support those new to teaching.
• Experienced staff with departmental or wider teaching and learning support/management/ advisory responsibilities within an institution.
• Staff who support academic provision and have substantive teaching and/or supporting learning, as well as leadership, responsibilities.

Please note: * For all SFHEA applications leadership should form the central focus of the overall application with the overriding emphasis being placed upon your leadership roles/responsibilities related to teaching and/or supporting learning. Leadership roles/responsibilities means that you organise, lead and/or manage specific aspects of teaching and learning provisions and can demonstrate successful co-ordination, support, supervision, management and/or mentoring of others (whether individuals or teams) in relation to teaching and learning. Crucially you must be able to evidence that through your leadership roles/responsibilities you have had an impact on the teaching and/or supporting learning practice of others that you work with.

Further information about the UKPSF and examples of the types of evidence you might provide to demonstrate how your professional experience aligns to Senior Fellow is available on the UKPSF Evidence - Senior Fellowship PDF (344 KB)

In order to apply for Principal Fellowship of the HEA through Keele’s HEA Fellowship CPD Route, you will need to be a member of staff with substantial experience of strategic leadership roles/responsibilities* related to teaching and/or supporting learning (at the institutional, national, international and/or organisational level). Your application will need to demonstrate:

• Your sustained and effective record of impact at a strategic level in relation to teaching and/or supporting learning, as part of a wider commitment to academic practice, academic development and high quality student learning.
• You can critically reflect on your practice.
• Your practice meets all five areas of Descriptor 4 of the UKPSF.

Examples of staff who may wish to apply

• Highly experienced/senior staff with wide-ranging academic or academic-related strategic leadership responsibilities in relation to teaching and supporting learning.
• Staff responsible for institutional strategic leadership and policymaking in the area of teaching and learning.
• Staff who can evidence strategic impact and influence in relation to teaching and learning that extends beyond their own institution.

Please note: * For all PFHEA applications, strategic leadership at the institutional, national, international and/or organisational level, should form the full focus of the application. You will need to demonstrate how through your wide ranging strategic leadership responsibilities and broad sphere of influence, you have had a significant and sustained impact upon teaching and learning at the highest level(s).