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 (42KB)
Nominations:
IMP Submission Form (49KB)
IMP Submission Guidance Notes (32KB)
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (49KB)
Periodic Reviews:
IMP Periodic Review Submission Form (49KB)
IMP Periodic Review Guidance Notes (45KB)
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
- Professor Jeremy Thomas OBE (Chair), University of Oxford
- Professor M Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Professor Richard Evershed FRS, University of Bristol
- Professor D Fowler CBE FRS FRSE Biogeochemistry, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Professor G Mace FRS CBE, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London
- Professor Tejinder S Virdee, Imperial College London
- Professor J Zarnecki, Professor of Space Science, The Open University
- Mrs Alexia Seller (Secretary), NERC Swindon
2012-2013 successes
- Professor David Fowler CBE FRS, CEH Edinburgh - Promoted to IMP1
- Professor Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum - Promoted to IMP1
- Professor Richard Horne, BAS - Promoted to IMP2
- Pavel Matousek, STFC RAL - Promoted to IMP2
- Dr Gregory Edgecombe, Natural History Museum - Promoted to IMP3
- Professor Andrzej Fludra, STFC RAL - Promoted to IMP3
- Professor Marisa Martin-Fernandez, STFC - Promoted to IMP3
- Dr Francis Pratt, STFC ISIS - Promoted to IMP3
Dates
Closing date for 2013-2014 round - 3 October 2013.
Paperboard - 13 November 2013.
Interviews - 12,13,19,20 March 2014.
If you require any further information please contact
Alexia Seller.
