Academic promotion is based on demonstrating your level of performance against York's promotion criteria.

The criteria relate to the three key areas of academic work:

1. Academic citizenship
2. Research
3. Teaching, scholarship and professional practice

In each of these areas, three incremental levels of performance have been defined - simply known as Levels 1, 2 and 3.

To be promoted, you need to show how you have achieved sustained performance at the levels required for each grade.

You may not need to demonstrate your performance against all the criteria. Staff in research roles aren't assessed against the teaching, scholarship and professional practice criteria, and staff in teaching and scholarship roles aren't assessed against the research criteria.