Who can apply for RET Fellowship

Anyone who is employed at the University of Glasgow and is involved in teaching or supporting the learning of UofG students can make an application to RET and gain recognition for their professional practice. This includes:

  • colleagues who work part-time or have had a career break. There is a space in your application to provide additional context which will be taken into consideration by the reviewers. You may also be able to rely on evidence from longer ago in these situations.
  • colleagues who are not involved in teaching or lecturing, but do provide support for student learning. You can also use evidence of your involvement in tutorials, course design, lab demonstrations.
  • colleagues who are not involved in assessing students formally. For RET Fellow or Senior Fellow, you will need to address Area of Activity A3 (Assess and give feedback for learning), making a convincing case that the work you do relates to assessment and feedback, but this does not need to include setting and grading assessments. If it is very difficult to provide evidence of your work on assessment and feedback, it might be that recognition as an Associate Fellow is more suitable for you.

RET and ECDP

Some staff on the Early Career Development Programme may, in discussion with their ECDP mentor and/or Head of School, feel that they already have a substantial track record of a reflective, reasoned, and innovative approach to teaching, course design, assessment and evaluation. In some instances where such a substantive track record exists it may be deemed appropriate to pursue Fellowship of RET through the experiential route instead of completing the PGCAP programme that is the normal component of ECDP. Please refer to the PGCAP guidelines for Accreditation for Prior Learning for more information. Since engagement in RET involves significant support and draw on resource from its providers, participants in RET are only able to engage in one route at any point in time. In practice, this means that anyone engaged in PGCAP (the RET Taught Route) cannot simultaneously engage in the RET experiential route, and vice-versa.