SAH Strategic Research Strands

There are three SAH Strategic Research Strands

Link to further details of Global Humanities Strategic Research Strand

1. Global Humanities.

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Link to further details of The Cambridge Collections Strategic Research Strand

2. The Cambridge Collections

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Link to further details of Humanising our Digital Futures Strategic Research Strand

3. Humanising our Digital Futures

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Aim

The School’s overarching vision is to provide researchers with the necessary time, support, infrastructure and environment to produce world-leading, impactful research and to maximize the potential of its cross-cutting themes.

Research Strategy and Implementation Mechanisms

The School’s research strategy and highlighted implementation mechanisms are summarized in four categories:

  1. Individual scholarship and support
  2. Research culture and environment
  3. Supporting collaborations and creating more impactful work
  4. Research grants

Individual scholarship and support

  • 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

Research culture and environment

  • 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

Supporting collaborations and creating more impactful work

  • 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

Link to:SAH Vision Statement for Knowledge Exchange and Impact(2024)

Research grants

  • 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