About the Visiting Professors initiative
This industry-into-UK academia initiative aims to utilise the experience of Visiting Professors (with backgrounds as industrialists, entrepreneurs, consultants or innovators) to enhance teaching and learning on engineering degree courses. It also focuses on increasing the employability and skills of UK engineering degree students whilst strengthening external partnerships with industry.
The Academy is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages nominations and nominees from women and other groups who are currently under-represented in the Visiting Professors Scheme (such as post-92 universities), as well as recognising the full breadth of engineering and its related subjects.
Purpose
Visiting Professors is not intended to support research interactions between industry and universities, for which separate schemes exist. The VP initiative will, however, embrace taught masters degrees provided these are accredited as contributing to the educational base for CEng professional qualification.
The intention of the VP scheme is for experienced industrial engineers and entrepreneurs to participate for example in curriculum development, face-to-face teaching or mentoring of engineering undergraduates, or the development of innovative approaches to engineering teaching & learning (such as flipped-classroom, problem-based learning and team working) that recognise that engineering education is not simply the accumulation of knowledge, but should identify with the process of engineering through the stages of creativity, design, and innovation.
Benefits of the award
This award (which follows successful application by the UK host university) provides the support necessary for the attendance of the Visiting Professor at the host university for at least 12 days a year to a maximum value of £10,000 (all inclusive) a year over three years - a maximum of £30,000 (all inclusive) in total.
Funder
The Visiting Professors Scheme is enabled by funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Guidance and networking
Reporting
All that you need to know to complete your reports, such as due dates and where to get the latest guidance document and template during the award.
Meet our visiting professors
View present and past cohorts from the Visiting Professors programme.