Glossary and definitions

For the purposes of this interview “international or national” relates to a poster or presentation presented to a formal UK wide or international body such as BAPRAS, BSSH, BAHNO, ASGBI and FESSH for example. 

There are a number of meetings and organisations that badge themselves as national or international but are not considered to be equivalent to level required to gain recognition in the academic, management or awards sections of the portfolio, and each will be compared to the examples as stated above.

For the purposes of the interview, “National” relates to UK wide bodies, or bodies relating to other sovereign states.

Where there is a UK equivalent, bodies or organisations from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be considered as “Regional”. 

For example, a paper accepted for presentation at the “Celtic BAPRAS meeting” should be congratulated but will be classed as “Regional” whereas a paper accepted at the national BAPRAS meeting will be considered as “National”.

In the academic section of the portfolio a “Principal” author is classified as the first author or last if you are the senior author. In work where you consider yourself a co-author but your name is second on the list of authors then the candidate will need to provide clear evidence of their role provided by the journal. No author below second will be considered a “principal” author.

You will be asked to provide an impact factor and PMID number for your journal publications, without which the publication cannot be scored. We will be looking at the 2022 list for Journal Impact Factor, produced in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) by Clarivate.