Research Strategy and Implementation Mechanisms
The School’s research strategy and highlighted implementation mechanisms are summarized in four categories:
- Individual scholarship and support
- Research culture and environment
- Supporting collaborations and creating more impactful work
- Research grants
Individual scholarship and support
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- for researchers, at all career stages, to produce world-leading research
- to develop a culture which promotes high-quality, protected time for research, supported by effective and sustainable research administration
- to champion higher quality, long-term research, and (in disciplines where this is relevant) increase publication in monograph form
- to understand and comply with Open Access requirements and encourage further thinking on open research
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Research culture and environment
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- to support the needs of researchers at all career stages, including post-doctoral and postgraduate researchers
- to nurture intra-, inter- and multi-disciplinary synergies and collaborations across the collegiate University
- to develop an inclusive research culture which embeds EDI as fundamental to our shared research environment
- to understand issues around the recruitment and retention of mid-career and senior academics joining the University on fixed-term research-only contracts with limited long
- term employment prospects at the University or access to appropriate benefits as those on teaching-and-research contracts
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Supporting collaborations and creating more impactful work
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- to develop a culture which values and encourages research impact of all kinds beyond the parameters, rationale, and cycles of the REF exercise
- to foster both emergent and long-standing collaborations which generate fundamental research and underpin impact
- to support the development, capture and evidencing of research impact
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Research grants
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- to cultivate a culture of grant making involving early, mid-career to senior academics which focuses on a research journey around project ideas
- to put in place effective and sustainable support for grant application and post-award maintenance, encouraging more researchers to become involved and invested in applying for external funding
- to enable post-doctoral researchers to transition to independent research leaders
- to maximize grant capture of the three cross-cutting themes outlined in the School’s 2020-30 Vision
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