That is the default, but it depends what your employment contract says. The relationship between a university and its academic staff is not quite a typical empl

That is the default, but it depends what your employment contract says. The relationship between a university and its academic staff is not quite a typical employer/employee relationship: academics have much more freedom to choose what to work on, and typically have more ownership of intellectual property they produce. This article gives a good introduction: Copyright ownership of e-learning and teaching materials: Policy approaches taken by UK universities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-017-9583-4