New for 2024

Values

The University’s Values are Adventurous, Authentic, Collaborative, Creative and Responsible.  This year, as part of PDR, you are asked to reflect on how you have demonstrated these values over the past year and consider how you could incorporate the values into your proposed objectives.

Further guidance is available in the PDR Values resource below.

Wellbeing

This year you will find a new section available called ‘Your Wellbeing’.  This is an opportunity to include any wellbeing concerns that you are experiencing that may be impacting on your work, and to have a discussion about these with your PDR Reviewer.  Please note that your Reviewer is not an expert in wellbeing but may signpost you to your local Wellbeing Champion, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Chaplaincy or Occupational Health as required.

Please do not document confidential information within the text box, although it would be useful to outline the general themes that would then allow the Reviewer to explore the most appropriate signposting opportunities.  Examples of themes include mental health, menopause, musculoskeletal issues, life events.

EDI Performance Objectives

As part of our strategy, the University has made a commitment to greater equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and is working towards becoming an anti-discriminatory organisation, i.e. to prioritise activities that identify and remove inequity, associated with protected characteristics and marginalised groups, as well as promote and progress equity and inclusion.  This can only be achieved if all members of staff make changes to the way they operate on a day-to-day basis.  This is why it is important for everyone to have an EDI performance objective in their PDR.

Further information is available in the guidance below that has been prepared by EDI Services.

Career Aspirations

This year you will find a new section available called ‘Career Aspirations’.  This is an opportunity to include any thoughts you might have in relation to your career aspirations and the support you might need.  These will help your Reviewer to consider appropriate objectives that will support you in moving towards those aspirations; these could be in terms of your development or setting performance objectives that will stretch you or broaden your experience.

For Academic Colleagues, you might find it helpful to consider the promotion criteria for Research, Teaching and Enterprise (RTE) staff when completing this section.