Academic Chemistry Workload Modelling

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Dear University of South Wales,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from the University regarding the workload allocation models and tariffs used to model the workload of your academic Chemistry staff:

1. What activities are recognised by the workload model for Chemistry staff?
2. What tariffs are associated with each activity (i.e. how much time is allocated for each activity) for Chemistry staff?
3. How is the total workload of a member of Chemistry staff modelled (i.e. what protocol is used to combine tariffs)?
4. What formal guidance is given to managers relating to the link between contracts of employment and the calculated workloads of Chemistry staff? In particular:
(a) What are the maximum and minimum permissible tariffed workloads for a member of staff in a full-time role?
(b) What are the broad subcategories of activity (such as Teaching or Research) recognised in academic roles?
(c) What is the division of total workload between these subcategories in contracts of employment (e.g. 40% Teaching, 60% Research)? How does this division relate to modelled workload?
(d) How are part-time contracts modelled differently to full-time contracts?
(e) What is the intended relationship between modelled workload and true workload? (e.g. modelled workload is expected to be 20% less than true workload, or to match true workload, or to exceed true workload by 20%)

Please provide information in the form of a Microsoft Word document in either the .doc or .docx format.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance – under your Section 16 obligations – as to how I can refine my request to be included within the scope of the Act.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to contact me, and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.

Yours faithfully,

Mr O'Neill

Dear University of South Wales,

I understand that this academic year has been extraordinarily difficult, and wonder if negotiating a new response date might be a pragmatic way to reach a satisfactory conclusion to my FOI request.

I suggest that 12Feb2021 might be a reasonable date to expect a response to my request, given the dreadful national events. Does this seem acceptable to you?

Yours faithfully,

Mr O'Neill

Freedom of Information, University of South Wales

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Dear Mr O'Neill

Thank you for your email.
I can confirm that the University of South Wales responded to your request for information on 17/12/2020.
Copy attached for information.

Regards
Catherine

Catherine Smith
Information Compliance Support | Cymorth Cydymffurfiaeth Gwybodaeth
Compliance | Cydymffurfiaeth
University Secretary's Office |Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd y Brifysgol
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