Human Resources Division

CV Mentoring Scheme

This Scheme matches female University Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and Readers who are thinking of applying for promotion, with Senior Academics who have extensive experience of the University's Senior Academic Promotions procedures. The Scheme is open to women wishing to apply for promotion in the next or subsequent promotion rounds. The Senior Academics who participate in the Scheme review the CVs and promotion paperwork of the Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and Readers. They provide guidance, insight and advice and thus help to strengthen participants' applications. The Scheme has helped to increase women's confidence in applying for promotion particularly for those who might not have done so previously.

In the 2010 Senior Academic Promotions round 80% of those women who applied for professorships were successful, with the highest number of female academics reaching professor level for five years.

—Cambridge University Reporter

If you would like to find out more about this scheme please email us at equality@admin.cam.ac.uk.