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 List 2011-12

Terms of Reference 

Agendas, Minutes and Documents

Quorum
50%

Frequency of meetings
Normally five times a year

Devolved powers
To make decisions relating to admissions, transfer, termination of studies, assessment arrangements and supervisory arrangements

Reports to
The Research Committee

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 maintain oversight of College’s arrangements for assuring the quality of research degree programmes, as implemented by the Research Degrees sub-committee, and their alignment with the QAA Code of Practice and with best practice within and beyond the University.

5. To define requirements for the training and continuing professional development of research degree supervisors.

6. To receive reports from the Research Degrees Sub-Committee, and to make an annual summary report on the Research Degree Programme to the Academic Board. 

7. To advise the Principal on measures to support individual researchers or research groups within the College. 

8. To provide an advisory forum for the College’s participation in the REF and any successor exercise, and provide advice to the Academic Board on applications from academic staff for research leave.

9. To recommend to Academic Board the appointment of non-stipendiary Visiting Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, and Research Fellows Emeritus, for fixed periods of time, as part of the College’s research community.

10. 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.

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