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[science_expat]

This question comes from pure curiosity. I'm up for promotion and have reached the "referees' reports are now being sought" stage.

Does anyone have experience in what the requests for these reports entail? In other words, does the uni just pass along that so-and-so is applying for X, here are the criteria, her application, and her CV, and ask for a reference.

Or do they ask specific questions, e.g. "the panel hopes that you can comment specifically on..."? Also, do they pass on ALL the paperwork?

I'm not too worried either way, but am interested, and have never been asked to review anyone else's promotion application so don't have any first hand information.

Cheers,
SE

[expatinuk]

When I went up for Prof I was asked to furnish 3-4  names of people who had Prof rank who could comment. Since I KNEW who I was asking for a recommendation, three of them actually sent me copies of their reports.

The committee sent each referee my file along with the stated Uni qualifications for promotion and asked them to address how I ranked on each of the criteria.

HTH... if you PM me I can give more info.