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Research
The College has an essential role to play in providing a lively and innovative interdisciplinary research environment. Aside from the recommendations to ensure that research does not become secondary to teaching duties, the College will:
Increase the Major Research Grant Fund and consider permitting modest teaching buy-out requests to this Fund;
Encourage termly lunchtime ‘lightning talks’ for all involved in research to be chaired by a JRF; and
Develop the proposal for a Digital Hub (see below) as a means of integrating different parts of the College’s research community and stimulating bottom-up interdisciplinary research, including collaborative projects.
Our non-GB Fellows make up an important part of our academic community and it is right that we recognise them for their contributions. We can also support early career academics through a variety of means and intend to do so, particularly for those subjects that lack other means of support.
Stipendiary Junior Research Fellows will be a top priority, recognising that they help develop the next generation of academic members
as well as contributing directly to research income through the quinquennial REF exercise.The College will review the size and shape of its JRF body regularly;
We will review the quotas for Hugh Price and Senior Research Fellowships; although these are non-salaried positions in College, they are important members of the Senior Common Room.We acknowledge that there is a case for an increase in both, particularly as the postgraduate body increases in size;
We will create more opportunities for
early career academics to take up positions within the College which will broaden their experience and strengthen their CVs, while also attending to the question of workload; The College will consider creating shorter- termVisiting Research Fellow opportunities, especially where there are synergies with its current Fellows; and
We will improve our communication
with Research Fellows by appointing a Communications Fellow so they understand better what is happening in College.The same person will work with the Development Team to strengthen further links with our alumni.
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