User talk:Gaia Octavia Agrippa/sandbox/Oxbridge academic ranks

Some unverified notes on fellowships.

In Oxford, apparently the basic fellowship (historially in any case) is the tutorial fellowship, which makes up the majority of fellows at all undergraduate colleges.

The actual title of Oxford tutorial fellows can, it seems, vary. In some cases they seem to be called praelector, as in Cambridge.

Postdoctoral Fellowships: Some Oxford colleges appear to have postdoctoral fellowships instead of junior research fellowships (JRFs), for example All Souls, where they seem to be for five years.

Senior Research Fellows (SRFs)at All Souls seem to be allowed to teach and the majority appears to do so.

Although it seems that in many Oxford colleges, all fellows are members of Governing Body, in some colleges Junior Research Fellows seem not to be, or were in the past not, part of Governing Body. In some of the colleges where JRFs are members of the college's governing body, it seems that they are not allowed to vote in elections of new Fellows.

Those who claim that ' "Fellows of [Oxbridge College]" form the governing body of that college and they are elected Fellows for historical reasons but actually get the job through the usually application process (CV, interviews, etc) and are then elected as a formality' may not be entirely correct, as far as Oxford is concerned. In Oxford there seems to be a distinction between tutorial fellows elected in the sciences and those elected in the humanities. In the former case, the colleges have only a veto right and the process is similar to Cambridge. In the humanities, it seems that the college, and that is the entire fellowship (with the exceptions noted above), elects, apparently often after long discussion, and the veto right appears to be on the side of the university. In the case of tutorial fellows that do not get emunerated by the university (of which there seem to be several kinds), the college alone decides, and election seems to be by the entire fellowship (with exceptions as noted above) after discussion. This seems to be true of all other kinds of fellows (JRFs, SRFs, Postdocs) that are not emunerated by the University.

In the case of tutorial fellows, usually the emuneration seems to be divided between college and university.

Although in most cases Oxford tutorial fellowships are permanent, it seems that there can be temporary posts with that title and usually the same duties, often advertised for three to five years and without renewal.

Flosfa (talk) 15:04, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Flosfa for your comments. Please do edit the draft itself if you'd like. What I meant by the "usual application process" is that it is no longer a case of simply presenting a candidate to the government body and them being voted on any more: they do actually need to apply, provide a CV, proof of academic prowess, etc; not that the college has no real say. Interesting what you say about the difference between science and humanities appointments. Do you have any supporting evidence for any of this? Finding references for all the quirks is proving difficult. Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 09:41, 16 May 2018 (UTC)