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When research is published or reaches a critical milestone, all staff should aim to actively report (and discuss) any potential practical value of the findings to the relevant bodies and partners, using whatever form of communication is most likely to be understood and well-received. If you would like to do more of this but are not sure where to start, please contact the Chair of DRC and/or the Research Admin team.
4. PhD students
Rather like research funding, the funding landscape for PhD students has changed significantly over the last few years with the introduction of Doctoral Training Programmes and Centres for Doctoral Training. Opportunities exist outside these avenues, e.g. overseas government funding, industrial funding etc. Rather like research funding it is incumbent on us all to think creatively and beyond UKRI for PhD funding. Staff should therefore:
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We encourage all staff to tap into the departmental schemes, namely the NERC ACCE and White Rose/ESRC DTPs. We have also recently become part of the University’s EPSRC DTP allocation.
Non-attainment of expectations
Some colleagues will not currently be meeting these expectations for a variety of reasons, for such as engagement in a core administrative role or heavy/new teaching load or for personal circumstances. Where appropriate, support via the Performance Development Review mechanism will be provided to help all colleagues to achieve these research expectations and also to set objectives tailored to the individual that can take into account contributions across research, teaching and administration.
Variation in research expectations across grades
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