NHS-R Community Fellowship

Purpose

NHS-R Community awards the honorary title of Fellow in recognition and acknowledgement of those members of the NHS-R Community who have made a significant contribution to the Community.

Examples of contributions may be creating a workshop, running workshops, attending NHS-R Committee meetings, submitting several blogs or contributing significantly to code hosted through NHS-R Community (see below for fellowship qualification details).

This is a way for active members to be able to refer to their commitment to the NHS-R Community in social media and/or on CVs. Because the Fellowship is given to members who are active in the Community there is no restriction on membership (core or fringe), time involved with the community or working in any particular industry or organisation.

Use of Fellow title

As an honorary title, those awarded Fellowship are at liberty to use it as they see appropriate. It is expected that Fellows will be aware of, promote and follow the NHS-R Community Code of Conduct when contributing to any NHS-R Community events.

Fellows agree to their name and organisation (if appropriate as Fellows can be students or not currently in work) at the time of nomination, being promoted through the NHS-R Community website for 3 years, after which their Fellowship will be reviewed by the NHS-R Community Committee for renewal or details removed from the website. We ask that details are updated in personal areas to reflect this or refer to being a Previous Fellow.

Becoming a Fellow

Nominees who are members of the NHS-R Community Committee and who have attended 3 or more committee meetings within the past 12 months will be awarded Fellow status (see the membership criteria for joining the committee). Similarly, community members who are on the Conference organisation committee, and all members of the core development team will automatically qualify for Fellowships. Outside of these groups, Fellowships will be awarded to nominees who can evidence 3 or more of the following within the past 12 months:

  • Blog submission and publication on the NHS-R website
  • Pull request of reasonable size* submitted to one of the NHS-R Community GitHub repositories. *As judged by the core team
  • Leading (or co-piloting) a training session
  • Delivering a webinar
  • Delivering a workshop
  • Submitting a usable non-code contribution, for example NHS-R artwork
  • Representation of the NHS-R Community at external events, for example
  • Any other contribution deemed ‘significant’ by the core team.

Your submission could contain a mixture of different types of contribution, for example one blog, one training session and a pull request, or alternatively, three pull requests.

Nominations for Fellows will be brought to the NHS-R core development team. Should your nomination not meet the above criteria, but be thought worthy of further consideration, we will submit your nomination to the Fellowship Adjudication Committee.

This committee will contain the core development team and one or more non-Strategy Unit NHS-R Committee members, who will be required to confirm no conflict of interest at the outset of any decision making. Should a conflict of interest be noted, that committee member will recuse themselves and alternative will be found. The results of this adjudication will be emailed to you on completion of the process. If after 2 months from the date of submission the adjudication committee have not declined your nomination, a Fellowship will be awarded.

The name, organisation (if applicable), contribution type(s) and date of award will be recorded and displayed on the NHS-R website for 3 years, at which time the Fellowship will expire unless renewed (using the same criteria as above).

Submit your nomination

Nominations can be from anyone, for themselves or on behalf of someone else. Nomination will be via email to nhs.rcommunity@nhs.net giving the following details:

  • Name
  • Organisation
  • Details and publicly shareable links to work and activities completed in the name of or on behalf of NHS-R Community. These activities should be in the open and reflect the Code of Conduct of the NHS-R Way.

The committee will review nominations as they are submitted throughout the year.