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<p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics
on staff at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Latest statistics refer to the
academic year 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>Each staff member can be recorded as teaching
and/or researching up to 3 academic disciplines[1]. Counts of the number of academic
staff and professors involved in the most closely related academic disciplines to
those requested have been provided in the table:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full-person-equivalent<strong>[2]</strong>
academic staff by current academic discipline at English HEIs for </strong></p><p><strong>Academic
Year 2017/18</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic
discipline</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Professors</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All
academic staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>C340 Entomology</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F770
Soil Science</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>C500 Microbiology</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>C510
Applied Microbiology</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Source: Department for Education analysis of the HESA Staff Record</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figures
are rounded to the nearest 5 in line with HESA’s rounding strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Staff
can be recorded across more than one academic discipline, so rows in the table ought
not to be summed together.</p><p> </p><p>‘Professor’ indicates a member of staff holding
a contract which aligns with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association contract
level 5A 'Professor'. This may undercount professors because many will fall into more
senior levels, e.g. Heads of department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Academic disciplines
are categorised using the Joint Academic Coding System: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c17025/a/curaccdis"
target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c17025/a/curaccdis</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[2]
The definition for full-person-equivalent is available from the HESA website:</p><p><a
href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c17025/fte_vs_fpe" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c17025/fte_vs_fpe</a>.</p>
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