The Report of the General Board on the merger of the Departments of Anatomy and Physiology (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 64) indicated that the new Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience would seek to restructure teaching, in order to reduce the burden on research-active University Teaching Officers, without compromising quality. The General Board have approved a proposal from the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences for the establishment of an office of University Physiologist in the Department as a key element of this initiative with effect from 1 October 2006 at point 62 on the Cambridge general stipend and salary spine. This office is analogous to the offices of University Clinical Anatomist and University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist which are already established in the Department (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 589). The new office is to be funded by the suppression of a University Lectureship vacant from 1 May 2002 on the election of the holder to the Merck Company Foundation Professorship of Experimental Neurology. The Board, with the agreement of the Faculty Board of Biology and the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences, have taken the opportunity to replace the regulations for these offices with new general regulations for offices within the Department which will also include the new office. They have recommended to the Council that a Grace be submitted to the Regent House to approve the new arrangements which are set out in the Schedule below.
The Council has accepted the General Board's recommendation and is accordingly submitting a Grace (Grace 5, p. 518) for the approval of the regulations set out in the Schedule to this Notice.
1. There shall be the offices of University Clinical Anatomist, University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist, and University Physiologist in the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience. The tenure of these offices shall be the same as that prescribed for a University Lecturer by Statute D, XVII, 6 and 7.
2. Appointment and reappointments to each office of University Clinical Anatomist and University Physiologist shall be made, in the manner prescribed by Statute D, XVII, 2, by the Appointments Committee for the Faculty of Biology.
3. Appointment and reappointments to the office of University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist shall be made, in the manner prescribed by Statute D, XVII, 2, by an Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Statute D, XVII, 4(b) for an office whose duties concern the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience and the Department of Veterinary Medicine.
4. The duties of each officer shall be to assist the Head of the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience in the work of the Department as directed by him or her throughout the year, save for a period or periods not exceeding a total of seven weeks in any one academical year as may be agreed between the officer and the Head of the Department.
5. Each officer shall undertake without additional payment such formal teaching as may be assigned to him or her by the Head of the Department, with the concurrence of the Faculty Board of Biology, being not less than 100 hours nor more than 200 hours of demonstrating in any one year, or an equivalent amount of other teaching.
6. None of the officers specified in Regulation 1 shall, without the leave of the General Board, engage in teaching other than teaching given on behalf of the University or a College or Colleges. The amount of teaching given on behalf of a College or Colleges shall not exceed six hours a week.
7. None of the officers specified in Regulation 1 shall, without the leave of the General Board, engage in private practice or other duties involving clinical responsibility.