Developing a professional registration scheme for Arts Technicians

Michelle,

I would be interested in joining the working group.  I assume one of the aims is to sign up the 100 arts and media technicians as registered practitioners needed to create the new arts and media professional register?

https://www.stem.org.uk/blog/new-register-arts-technicians-what-you-need...

Professional registration for all technical staff is something my current instituion sees as a strategic aim.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi,

I am also interested in this and can be contacted at holdaway@dmu.ac.uk

Many thanks

Kevin

Hello Michelle,

count me in, my email is: l.woolston2@uos.ac.uk

thanks,

Lawrence

Hi Michelle

   Please place my name down for the contact at Plymouth University.

Best regards

Nick

I would be interested in this too.

kha5@le.ac.uk

Kind regards,

Kerry

Hi Michelle,

I'm very interested in this also.  I represent the Art Technicians of the University of Reading, a diverse group including technical staff working both in traditional Fine Arts and also Theatre and Visual Arts.

I will email you across my information.

Keith Hill

Please could you add me?

lchessum@bedfordschool.org.uk

Thank you 

Hi, I'd like to be part of this conversation too please.  May I be added to the group.  Thanks. Tim

Hello,

I'm interested in this too!

matthew.burton@leeds-art.ac.uk

Cheers

Matt

Michelle

Please could you add me to the list

Regards

Martin

mrobinson@ucreative.ac.uk

Thank you all for your interest!  I am v excited about doing something for 'Arts' technicians.  We are hoping to have a meeting in Nottingham the week beginning 11th December (but not the 12th).  If you can't make it in person we will be able to connect with you virtually (I hope).  

Best wishes

Michelle

I think an important item for the agenda could be the topic of the title "technician" I know plenty of technicians that have pretty intensive teaching and research schedules and as such the title Technical tutor would be far more appropriate however its very rarely ever used. Id be very interested in exploring this subject further and getting some feedback from other people perspectives etc.

Dear Matt, we use Technical Tutor at UCA very well (we also have technicians, and technical assistants). The technician tutors deliver the usual techncian duties (including demonstration), but also provide 360 hours of technical teaching delivered in accordance with lesson plans and unit outcomes each year.

I would have thought this could induce issues regarding pay scales?

Hi, our payscales are:

Grade 4:  Techncial Assistant (reactive support, maintenance, admin etc).

Grade 5:  Technician (above, plus demonstrations)

Grade 6:  Techncian Tutor (above plus 360 hours of formal teaching)

Grade 8:  Lecturer (entry level academic role)

Grade 9: Senior Lecturer (with teaching qualifications and research profile). This grade is also used Technical Managers.

Grade 10:  Course Leaders.

The responsibilities of each are well deliniated by the role profiles but, as is common there is some blurring around the technical and academic remits.  Most of the technicians have post graduate degrees and teaching qualifications.  In fact, we are increasingly finding our technicians successfully apply for academic roles (I have just completed a research project on this subject which is undergoing peer review for publication).  Happy to post here once the review process is complete.