11.00am in the Ground Floor Meeting Room at Burnaby Terrace
CHAIR: Jim Briggs
PRESENT: Helen Scott, Roger Beresford, Janet Delve, Jenny Jerrams-Smith
IN ATTENDANCE: Trisha Kelly taking minutes
Agenda | Notes | Action |
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Introduction |
Roger opened the meeting saying he had asked Jim to chair meetings of the Committee. One of the goals of the Committee has to be to account for monies spent and what has been achieved with them, including conference reports, copies of papers, etc. He announced that each research group has an allowance of £3,000 this year. |
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Agenda |
Jim asked for three items to be added to the Agenda: Budgets, Strategy and Website. |
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Membership |
The membership of this committee should be the HoD (ex officio), plus a representative of each of the (currently 5) research groups, plus a representative of the research students. Individuals can be in more than one group. Each group has a delegated budget and one person should be responsible for overseeing and ensure monies are available before requests are signed off. If further funds are required a special case can be made to HoD to consider. |
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Apologies |
There were no apologies. Subsequently, it was discovered that George Allan and Terry King had not been aware of the meeting. |
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Matters arising from Minutes of 9 July 2002 |
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PhD students and milestones |
Jenny reported that the induction programme had been done. Helen agreed to seek feedback from students. | HS |
Supervisory teams |
Done | |
Geoff Ma |
He had declined our offer of a PhD place. | |
Research methods unit |
George not present so action results not known. However Jenny reported that Peter Bednar is going to run a new course on research methods starting shortly. Jenny agreed to notify all PhD students in ISCA, CSSE and CT about the course. Roger has agreed to buy a copy of the recommended textbook for all ISCA research students who do the course. |
JJS |
PC needs of research students |
All research students now had a PC. Requests for further equipment should go to Jim with his ISCA equipment hat on. |
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Newsletter |
No progress made. The Committee was supportive of the idea of a newsletter with brief summary of items as a prompt to refer people to the website for further info. The newsletter should be frequent and produced on time. HoD to consult with Brett Stevens. |
RAB |
LIM | Jim had spoken with Graham Moon about involving researchers outside ISCA in a LIM RAE submission. Moon had indicated that most in other faculties had been earmarked for other Units of Assessment, hence our only likely source was the other departments within Technology. Some staff had already been earmarked for Mechanical Engineering or Applied Maths. | |
MSc supervision and research time |
George wasn't present to pursue this item. It was agreed that it was desirable for as many staff as possible to supervise MSc students. HoD to talk to individuals. It was noted that timetable allowances had been fixed for supervisors of full-time research students: first supervisor - one hour per week; second supervisor - half an hour per week. Half this allowance for part-time students. |
RAB |
Budget |
Partly covered by Roger in introduction to the meeting. Money is available (1) to support research by attending conferences, etc (2) to assist in data collection. Each research student is allocated £500 which HoD agrees and which mainly covers the PC. It was noted that as well as the research group budgets and the research student allowance, research expenditure also involves purse accounts, the staff development budget and the budgets for particular projects. It was agreed that these should be monitored collectively. It was agreed that Jim would be responsible for this and from time to time would contact Cheryl and group leaders as appropriate for information. |
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Strategy |
A draft of the proposed ISCA Research Strategy 2002-2006 was tabled and briefly discussed. Groups and individuals have been asked to provide comments on the document in general, and information about the strategy and targets of their groups. The deadline for these comments was agreed as 27 November. Jim will then circulate a revised draft for further discussion which will be discussed and hopefully agreed at the next meeting of this committee. It was emphasised that the Research Strategy was intended to be all-inclusive and not just for an elite. It was suggested that it should be discussed at a Wednesday 5 Meeting. |
All |
Jim to discuss with Tom Addis and Steve Hand if the strategy might also cover CSSE and CT. It could then be a CAM or LIM strategy, in which case this committee might become a broader one. | JSB | |
Website |
No progress yet - identified by Faculty Exec as a priority (related to Developmental Engagement). Jim proposed that each research group must have at least one page on the website with an overview of what it is doing and report on progress with live links to publications. It should include a list of students and what they have done and what funding is associated with the research. Publication data should be in a form compatible with RAE needs. Information on the web pages should be date stamped and kept up to date. Jim to set up ISCA research page with links to research groups. |
JSB |
Any Other Business |
No further business |
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Date of next meeting |
Early Spring term - to be decided |
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