Fellowship Categories

Associate Fellowship is suited to those at a very early career stage of teaching or supporting learners in higher education. For example, this might include:

• sessional tutors or demonstrators with relatively limited experience (for example, two semesters or equivalent);
• research academics with relatively little experience of coursework teaching or research student supervision;
• early career professional staff who support learners through academic or research skills training, or who contribute to diverse forms of educational design or development;
• other early career sessional, contract or tenured staff with specialist and/or limited educational roles.

To be recognised as an AFHEA, you must demonstrate an understanding of specific aspects of effective teaching, learning support methods and student learning.In particular, you must be able to provide evidence that you meet the criteria for Descriptor 1 (page 4 of the PSF):

1. your successful engagement with at least two Areas of Activity, and appropriate teaching practices: we strongly suggest A2 (teach and/or support learning) & A5 (professional development)
2. appropriate Core Knowledge and understanding of at least K1 (your knowledge of what you are teaching) & K2 (your knowledge of how students learn in your discipline, and how best to teach students in your discipline)
3. a commitment to appropriate Professional Values (V1-V4) in facilitating others’ learning
4. an understanding of how you might make a current or future contribution to professional practices, pedagogical research and/or scholarship related to teaching within the above activities
5. successful engagement, where appropriate, in professional development activity related to teaching, learning and assessment responsibilities

This category is suited to those who have a solid experientially-derived understanding of higher education, including engagement with appropriate educational literature and evidence-based practice. For example, this might include:

• academics who are in an early- to mid-career stage of coursework teaching and/or research supervision, for example, who have at least a couple of semesters’ experience of convening undergraduate or postgraduate courses, and/or supervising honours or higher degree by research (HDR) students
• professional staff with significant experience of supporting learners through academic or research skills training, or of contributing to diverse forms of educational design or development.

To be recognised as a FHEA, you must meet the criteria for Descriptor 2 (page 5 of the PSF):

1. successful engagement and appropriate teaching practices across all five Areas of Activity
2. appropriate knowledge and understanding across all six aspects of Core Knowledge
3. commitment to all four Professional Values

In particular, you should be able to demonstrate commitment to your own professional development in ways that have ensured you are:

4. able to reflect and improve your own evidence-based practice in ways relevant to personal and institutional quality assurance of teaching (K5, K6, V3, V4)
5. cognisant of relevant higher education and pedagogical literature (A5, K5, K6, V3)
6. engaged with national and institutional frameworks, policies and practices, e.g. able to explain in the context of your teaching, the relevance of:
   • the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF);
   • Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT)
   • the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA);
   • ANU Code of Practice of Teaching and Learning;
   • ANU SELT

Please remember you can participate in the ANU Academic Professional Development program (consisting of Principles of Tutoring and Demonstrating, and Introduction to Academic Leadership) specifically to enrich and empower your professional development and knowledge base.

Senior Fellowship is suited to those in mid to later careers in teaching or supporting learners in higher education, or those with extensive focus on teaching at earlier career stages.

To be recognised as a SFHEA, you must meet Descriptor 3 (page 6 of the PSF) by showing evidence (at a more extensive level than a FHEA) of:

1. successful engagement and appropriate teaching practices across all five Areas of Activity
2. appropriate knowledge and understanding across all six aspects of Core Knowledge
3. commitment to all four Professional Values
4. extensive experientially-derived understanding of higher education, including significant engagement with appropriate educational literature and evidence-based scholarly practice
5. strong, sustained evidence of engaging with peers in ways that supported the peers’ journeys as educators (e.g. mentoring, or working with peers in teaching teams, in curriculum reviews, and/or in relevant committees).

You must also be able to demonstrate commitment to your own professional development in ways that have ensured you are:

6. able to reflect and improve your own evidence-based practice in ways relevant to personal and institutional quality assurance of teaching (K5, K6, V3, V4)
7. cognisant of relevant higher education and pedagogical literature (A5, K5, K6, V3)
8. engaged with national and institutional frameworks, policies and practices, e.g. able to explain in the context of your teaching, the relevance of:
   • the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF);
   • Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT)
   • the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA);
   • ANU Code of Practice of Teaching and Learning;
   • ANU SELT;
   • and aware of overseas initiatives that may influence Australia such as the UK Teaching Excellence and Students Outcomes Framework (TEF)

In the ANU EFS, SFHEA are also expected to commit to taking on shared and distributed leadership roles within the EFS, for example as EFS mentors and assessors.

If you are already an AFHEA or a FHEA, you will still need to complete a full written application addressing all the above criteria required for a SFHEA.

This category is suited for highly experienced professional, able to provide evidence of a sustained and effective record of impact at a strategic level in relation to teaching and learning, as part of a wider commitment to academic practice. This may be within your institution or wider national or international settings. Typically, those likely to be eligible to apply for PFHEA are:

• highly experienced and/or senior staff with wide-ranging academic or academic-related strategic leadership responsibilities in connection with key aspects of teaching and supporting learning;
• staff responsible for institutional strategic leadership and policy-making in the area of teaching and learning
• Staff who have strategic impact and influence in relation to teaching and learning that extends beyond their own institution.

To be recognised as a PFHEA, you must meet Descriptor 4 (page 7 of the PSF) by showing evidence of:

1. active commitment to and championing of all dimensions of the framework, through work with students and staff, and in institutional developments
2. successful, strategic leadership to enhance student learning, with a particular, but not necessarily exclusive, focus on enhancing teaching quality in institutional, and/or (inter)national settings
3. Establishing effective organisational policies and/or strategies for supporting and promoting others (e.g. through mentoring) in delivering high quality teaching and support for learning
4. championing, within institutional and/or wider settings, an integrated approach to academic practice (incorporating, for example, teaching, learning, research, scholarship, administration etc.)
5. a sustained and successful commitment to, and engagement in, continuing professional development related to academic, institutional and/or other professional practices

We strongly recommend that you have obtained Senior Fellowship (SFHEA) before applying for PFHEA. Please email efs@anu.edu.au for more information on this category of fellowship and to discuss your next step forward.