University of Manchester, Staff Appointment Registers

The registers of staff appointments cover the period from the late 1880s to the early 1970s, when the registers were discontinued. Each volume contains notices of appointment for academic staff members from assistant lecturer level upwards, as well as some administrative posts. The notices of appointment were signed by the appointee following confirmation by the University Council. Typically they would record a starting date, an initial salary, and the terms and conditions of the appointment. Originally, notices appear to have been tailored to a particular appointment, but by the mid-1930s they took the form of a pro-forma. The registers can provide additional information about staff appointments to that found in Senate and Council records, and in other sources such as the Vice-Chancellor's files on chair appointments. Information in the registers may provide the only substantive information about the purpose and duties of some appointments below professorial level.

All volumes are indexed.

Former reference: RA/29/1

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Transferred to the University Archives from the Registrar's Office in the 1970s; a later and final accession was deposited at the Archives in July 2018.

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The Senate Committees minutes (USC/2) contain records of ad hoc appointments committees, which details the selection process up to the recommendation of appointment. OCA/19 contains selective information on staff appointments at Owens College, although by no means a complete record of academic appointments. Appointments to chairs may be covered by a relevant file in the Vice-chancellor's archive (VCA/7) [note very little information exists on pre-1930 chair appointments].