240,420 academic staff were employed at UK higher education providers on 1 December 2022, a rise of 3% on the previous year.
67% of academic staff were of UK nationality compared to 68% in 2021. The number of non-EU nationality academic staff rose by 11% to 40,195, accounting for 17% of the total. For the first time, this figure exceeded the number of EU nationality academic staff which stood at 37,585 – a fall of 1% from 2021 and accounting for 16% of the total.
The number of academic staff who declared their ethnicity as White fell by 1% in 2022 while the number of Black academic staff rose by 18%. The number of Black academic staff with the contract level of ‘Professor’ rose by 27% but represented only 1% of all professors.
The proportion of professors who were female increased to 31% in 2022 compared to 30% in 2021.
