FOI_26-265 Appointment of Honorary staff and Emeritus professors
Date of response: 04 November 2026
We have now considered your request of 08 October 2026 for the following information:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be grateful if you could provide copies of the following University policies and procedures as they stood between July and December 2025:
Where documents were amended during this period, please provide the versions in force and their effective dates
Question 1. The Honorary Academic and Emeritus Professor Appointments Process and Guidelines, including any associated application, nomination or approval procedures
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_26-265 Appendix A.
Question 2. Any policies or guidance governing visiting academic appointments, visiting research fellows or other non-employed academic affiliations.
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_26-265 Appendix A.
Question 3. Any policies or guidance specifying the eligibility of former employees, including those leaving through voluntary or compulsory redundancy, for honorary or visiting appointments.
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_26-265 Appendix A.
Question 4. Any policies or guidance concerning IT, email, library, laboratory and research-data access associated with such appointments.
Our response:
Each school will arrange and confirm colleagues who they wish to have visitor access, confirming this to IT for the relevant associated access according to their intended work.
External collaborators and contractors can apply for an IT account to gain access to UEA resources such as campus cards, internet connectivity, library facilities and software such as Microsoft365.
Requests for IT Accounts must be authorised by the department they will be collaborating with before submitting their form to the IT Service Desk.
Long Term Visitor
Typical Use Examples
• Guest lecturers
• Academic collaborators
• Employees of UEA partner organisations
Access Granted
• UEA email address
• Microsoft 365 online applications
• Blackboard
• Optional - Campus card, library borrowing and M365 desktop apps
A long-term visitor form should be completed to gain relevant access – v1 visitor account application form included in FOI_26-265 Appendix A.
Additional to this, regarding IT and email access such appointments must adhere to all staff regulations-for-acceptable-computing-use.pdf
Guides relating to library access can be found here Home - Library guides - UEA Library at University of East Anglia
Research data access policies and guidance can be found here Research data - Open Research - UEA Library at University of East Anglia