Rethinking academic review and promotion workflows for success

Universities across ANZ have made significant investment in digitising academic platforms and systems. Yet for many academic staff, administrative workload has not declined; it has simply evolved into other complexities. Review, evaluation, and promotion processes remain as a top challenge, with the intricacies of committee‑based decision workflows, consolidation of academic activity across multiple systems and managing the academic career lifecycle end‑to‑end.

Senior university leaders see this risk extending beyond staff burnout and fatigue, into a decline in research culture and the potential loss of talented academic staff who are crucial in supporting funding and institutional outcomes.

In this webinar, Somone Washington, Analyst, Office of Faculty Affairs, California State University Long Beach, will share how their institution transformed review and promotion processes using Elsevier’s Interfolio Review Promotion and Tenure module, supported by structured onboarding, training, and ongoing staff engagement.

Together with Jason Staples, Account Manager – Interfolio, Elsevier, we’ll discuss how institutions can reduce administrative burden, improve consistency, and support academic staff through more streamlined review and promotion workflows.