Table 4 Potential areas and criteria of performance evaluation designed to motivate academics to support EIHP

Queen Mary University of London

Research

Activities that impact the field

Activities essential to further research

Output of high-quality, peer-reviewed research publications or other equally recognized forms of research output

Significant contribution to the discipline and earned an international reputation

Engagement with society/impact

Interventions that impact student citizenship positively

Involvement in knowledge creation and/or transfer in conjunction with external partner organizations in the industry, commerce, government, or NGOs

Activities or interventions that target stakeholders outside academia or address student engagement, widening participation or inequalities within the university

Transferred research results to commercial, professional, or other practical use, exploiting these

Supported nonacademic stakeholders to engage with research

Developing communication strategies to ensure that results of research or outputs or departmental activities or project outputs reach public bodies or the general public

Cultivating communication strategies that have led to changes in nonacademic practice/policy and collaboration with partners to improve research topics and practices

Identifying new markets for or needed continuing professional development programmes

Providing advice to boards of major public bodies on a long-term strategy on a national issue

Consulting on policy matters at the national/international level

Creating leading research initiatives with nonacademic partners

Leading significant business partnerships with major industrial or community partners

Providing advice to boards of commercial or public organizations

Applying knowledge to improve the performance of public sector organizations

Transforming academic outputs, intellectual property, or artworks

Showing a significant sustained and externally recognized contribution to student entrepreneurship and enterprise activities

Offering a significant record of the transfer of intellectual property into the wider economy including awards for innovation

Showing a significant record of responding to the needs and opinions of external groups concerning research topics, processes methodologies, or engagement methods

Developing national or international communication strategies to ensure that results of research reach the general public

Management and collegiality

Providing an identifiable change in a key area of provision or indicator

Professional practice

Engaging in activities that influence society, economy, government, or public policy

Forging links between academia and industry to create opportunities

Increasing productivity and efficiency of the healthcare system or other relevant professional and economic fields

Directing or providing strategic advice at a national level on the design of clinical or other forms of professional practice to improve the translation of knowledge gained from research activity into the application, resulting in improved patient care, outcomes, or population health, or the equivalent in other professional areas

McMaster University

Research

What would you say is the general quality of the candidate's work?

To what degree is the candidate's work original and creative?

How significant is it as a scholarly contribution in his or her special area and in the subject more generally?

Apart from scholarly work, do you know of any contribution the candidate made to the development of his or her subject in Canada or elsewhere, e.g. through activities in learned societies, organizing conferences, governmental commissions, and so forth? In your opinion, how significant have these activities been?

Monash University

Research (advancing the discipline)

Undertaking impactful research in research, student outcomes, university environment, industry, practice, or community

Positive media mentions of a candidate’s research

Positive media mentions of team discoveries

Research (building reputation)

Participating in successful research teams, research units, or centres

Research (establishing, leading, or participating in research teams)

Positive media mentions of a candidate’s research

Positive media mentions of team discoveries

Research (translation, commercialization, or adoption of discoveries and policy-to-practice by external entities)

Adapting new technologies, patents, designs, and inventions by industry

Identifying companies that are on the edge of technology or are utilizing new technologies/patents/designs

Changes in government policy or practice resulting from the candidate’s research

New legislation, new community funding, and formal reviews of government funding or policy that emerges as a result of the candidate’s research

Engagement (engagement with industry, government, community, and not-for-profits that contributes to positive economic, social, or cultural outcomes)

Drawing on disciplinary expertise to engage in activities that enhance economic and social outcomes. This may include undertaking voluntary work in legal advice centres or health centres, mentoring of high school science students’ projects, and providing advice/training to community groups on information technology (IT)

Effective participation in industry or government advisory committees, that led to a committee report and recommendations that have been well received by the media, government, and/or public

Influence on public policy through authoring policy papers or providing evidence to a Royal Commission

TUMS

Research

Generation technical knowledge and inventions