Research Councils' Individual Merit Promotion (IMP)
The Individual Merit Promotion (IMP) scheme is the main route for senior scientific researchers, who have made, and who will continue to make, an outstanding personal contribution in their field, to gain promotion.
The Research Councils and other participating organisations are invited to make Nominations annually for individual merit promotion. The scheme is currently administered by NERC.
If you are an employee of a participating organisation, and fulfil the criteria for the Scheme, your organisation will have information about the timetable and process for submitting nominations to the IMP Team in NERC.
Invitations for nominations are sent out in June and the closing date is usually the beginning of September.
Periodic review of individual merit promotion holders
If you are successful, you will continue to hold Individual Merit promotion as long as you continue to meet the criteria for the scheme, and continue to maintain the standards for which it was awarded. To ensure that the overall and individual standards of the scheme are being maintained, your IMP will be reviewed, within a maximum of 5 years from the initial promotion and at similar intervals afterwards.
Copies of the scheme documents can be accessed by the following links:
Nominations and Periodic Review:
IMP Procedure (41KB)
Nominations:
IMP Submission Form (73KB)
IMP Submission Guidance Notes (30KB)
Periodic Reviews:
IMP Periodic Review Submission Form (70KB)
IMP Periodic Review Guidance Notes (29KB)
To ensure that the overall and individual standards of the scheme are being maintained, your IMP will be reviewed within a maximum of five years from the initial promotion and at similar intervals afterwards.
Panel Membership 2012-2013
- Dr I Joint (Chair), Marine Biological Association
- Professor AH Fitter FRS (Chair, stepped down for 2011-2012), Department of Biology, University of York
- Professor P J Fryer FREng , Head of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham
- Professor G Mace FRS CBE, Professor of Conservation Science, Imperial College London
- Professor J Zarnecki, Professor of Space Science, The Open University
- Professor M Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Professor D Fowler CBE, FRS, FRSE, Biogeochemistry, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Professor Richard Evershed FRS, University of Bristol
- Mrs Alexia Seller (Secretary), NERC Swindon
Dates for 2013
Closing Date - 1 October 2012.
Paperboard - 13 November 2012.
Interviews - 6, 13, 14, 20, 21 March 2013, MRC London.
Final Recommendation Meeting - 15 May 2013, MRC London.
If you require any further information please contact
Alexia Seller.