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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD 
 
 
Ref. FOI/20200728/1 
24 August 2020 
Reply to request for information under the Freedom of Information Act  
Your ref 
Email of 28 July 
Could you please provide me with the following information: 

1) Total number of academic staff employed by the university. 
 
Of that total, can I have the absolute numbers and percentages who are: 
2) 'Teaching only', i.e. employed to teach but not to carry out research. 
3) 'Research only', i.e. employed to carry out research but not to teach. 
4) Employed both to teach and carry out research. 
 
Then: 
5) Of the total number of academic staff (i.e., of 1)), the number and percentage who are on 
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fixed term contracts (FTCs - as opposed to permanent or zero hours contracts). 
6) Percentage and number of all teaching-only staff who are on FTCs. 
7) Percentage and number of research-only staff who are on FTCs. 
8) Percentage and number of teaching and research staff who are on FTCs. 
 
9) Then, of all staff who are on FTCs, can I have a breakdowns by ethnicity and gender, i.e. 
the percentage and number who are: of black, asian, or other minority ethnicity; white; men; 
women. 
 
Finally, can I please have this data for the academic years: 2012/13, 2017/18, 2018/19, and 
2019/20. 
 
Dear Ben O’Brien, 
I write in reply to your email requesting the above information, which you may find attached. Please note that 
HESA data for 2019/20 will not be available until November.  
 
Yours sincerely 
Information Compliance Team