Research Committee
Purpose
Within the regulations and in accordance with the Code of Practice for research degree programmes, to take decisions concerning the admission, progression, transfer and supervisory and assessment arrangements of research degree students
Membership 2012-13
Membership | 2012-13 | Name |
Ex officio | Director of Research and Chair | Dr M Lacewing |
| Principal | Fr M Holman |
| Vice Principal Academic | Prof G Griffith-Dickson |
| Dean of Research Students | Prof M Barnes |
| Director of Administration | Mrs E Thussu |
| Librarian and Acting Director of Estates | Fr C Pedley |
| Head of Academic Policy and Governance and Deputy Clerk to the Governing Body | Ms K Powell |
Appointed members | A member of each department, appointed by the Heads of Department | Dr M Ganeri (Theology) Dr James Sweeney (PSS) Dr Thomas Crowther (Phil) |
| External Member | Prof Malcolm Cook |
Co-opted | Heads of Departments | Dr Peter Gallagher (Phil) Dr Michael Kirwan (Theol) Dr Anna Abram (PSS) |
| When appropriate, members of specific bodies within the College whose work impinges on research |
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| One member of the HSU executive | HSU President |
Student member | Representative of the research student community | Mr Miroslav Imbrisevic |
Secretary | Research and Policy Administrator | Ms Frith Hooton |
Frequency of meetings | 3 times per year |
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Quorum | 50% |
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Terms of Reference
Quorum
50%
Devolved powers
To make decisions relating to admissions, transfer, termination of studies, assessment arrangements and supervisory arrangements
Reports to
Academic Board
Terms of Reference
1. To advise the Principal and the Academic Board on the development, implementation and updating of the College’s strategies for research.
2. To develop and put into practice systems for monitoring progress in relation to agreed research strategies, and to report annually to the Academic Board.
3. To promote research activities (especially conferences and seminars) within the College, and in conjunction with other centres of research, nationally and internationally.
4. To advise the Principal on measures to support individual researchers or research groups within the College.
5. The Committee will ensure, in respect of the areas of College life falling within its remit, that unlawful discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief (including lack of belief), sex, or sexual orientation, does not occur. It will ensure this by:
a) monitoring appropriate data sets at suitable intervals, and
b) explicitly considering the impact on equality issues of any new actions, policies or procedures which it initiates or approves.
Agendas and Minutes
2012/13
Date | Agenda | Minutes |
22 May 2013 RC 12-13.3 |
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30 Jan 2013 RC 12-13.2 | Meeting cancelled | Meeting cancelled |
24 Oct 2012 RC 12-13.1 |
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2011/12
Date | Agenda | Minutes |
23 May 2012 RC 11-12.3 | ||
8 Feb 2012 RC 11-12.2 | RC 11-12.2.A | RC 11-12.2.M |
26 Oct 2011 RC 11-12.1 |
2010/11
Date | Agendas | Minutes |
23 May 2011 RC 10-11.3 | ||
9 Feb 2011 RC 10-11.2 | ||
3 Nov 2010 RC 10-11.1 |
2009/10
Date | Agendas | Minutes |
19 May 2010 RC 09-10.3 | ||
24 Feb 2010 RC 09-10.2 | ||
18 Nov 2009 RC 09-10.1 |
2008/09
Date | Agendas | Minutes |
13 May 2009 RC 08-09.3 | ||
4 March 2009 RC 08-09.2 | ||
19 Nov 2008 RC 08-09.1 |
2007/08
Date | Agendas | Minutes |
31 Oct 2007 | ||
14 May 2008 |
