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Every grade at the Centre is reached in the same way: by completing the training, by carrying research through to an output, and, where the rule requires it, by an application decided on a written record. This page sets out the grades, the workshops behind them, the councils, and how a decision is taken.
The governance pages are being prepared.
Centre for Immunology, Genetics, and Systems Biology is settling how it describes its membership grades, its training programmes and the way decisions are taken. The explanation is published here once that is done.
About membership →Everyone begins as a Registered Member. From the first research grade onward a member is also styled an Affiliated Member, alongside the designation of the grade itself. The grades are not honorary: each one names what a member has completed. The first three research grades follow from the training and the work itself; the advisory grades and the two council grades are never granted automatically, and each one is decided on a written record.
PL0REG
Holds an account and a registration with the Centre.
PL1RA
Foundational Training W1a and W1b completed, or a waiver granted. The first Affiliated Member grade.
PL2SR
Research Associate plus one further workshop and a supervised project taken to publication-ready material.
PL3PR
Three programmes, where W1a and W1b together count as one, or two programmes plus a demonstrated third skill.
PL4SA
The entry grade for advisors. Always reached by application, never automatically.
PL5DSA
The top half of advisors by member score, assigned annually on admin approval.
PL6HSC
One of the seven seats on the High Scientific Council, refreshed annually.
PL7SAC
One of the five permanent seats on the Supreme Advisory Council, held by member numbers 0 to 4.
Research Integrity and Publication Ethics is required of every Affiliated Member and counts toward no tier of its own. The two foundational trainings are taught one to one and count together as a single programme. Every other workshop is passed by completing its supervised project and taking it to publication-ready material, which is why no project-bearing workshop can be waived.
W0Mandatory
Mandatory for everyone becoming an Affiliated Member. It is a prerequisite to be passed and counts toward no tier.
W1aOne to one
One-to-one foundational training. With W1b it counts as one programme.
W1bOne to one
One-to-one foundational training. With W1a it counts as one programme.
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
01
Every application that changes a member’s grade, designation or council seat is approved by the Supreme Advisory Council. No single administrator can grant one.
02
Where a decision turns on scientific judgement, an administrator may put the application to a vote of the seated members of the High Scientific Council, and then enforce the result the vote produced.
03
A resolution carried by the High Scientific Council applies immediately. An ordered change made in any other way takes effect one month after the decision, and the date is shown plainly on the member’s record.
04
The founding member may override a decision. The override is recorded together with the written justification for it, and that record stays with the application.
The Supreme Advisory Council holds five permanent seats and carries the final decision on membership, grades, designations and seats. Those seats are reserved for the Centre's first five member numbers, and the founding member alone decides who holds them.
The High Scientific Council holds seven seats for an annual term. The three highest-ranked advisors by research score take their seats automatically, and those three elect the remaining four from the fifteen highest-ranked. It is the body an administrator turns to when a decision needs scientific judgement rather than an administrative one.
Create your account
Registration is free. Your account gives you a member portal from the first day, before any grade is granted.
Read what you are eligible for
Your standing page shows your grade, the workshops you hold and what you may apply for next. Where you are not yet eligible, it says which requirement is outstanding.
Submit the application
Each application asks for a short statement and whatever evidence the rule requires: a publication record, an appointment, a supervised project or a completed workshop.
Receive the decision
The decision arrives in your member messages with its reasons, and, where a change was ordered, the date on which it takes effect.