RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE

Minutes for the fourth meeting of the Research & Enterprise Committee in the 2011/12 Academic Session, held on Wednesday 18th April 2012, 2.15pm, S311, Avery Hill Campus

PRESENT:

Prof T Barnes ChairProf A Reed Vice-Chair and Director of Postgraduate Research (PGR)Prof A Benati Director of Research & Enterprise (HSS)Mrs W Curran Finance Manager (Finance)Dr M Davies Director of Research & Enterprise (GRE)Prof D Isaac Director of Research & Enterprise (A&C)Prof C Birch Director of Enterprise (BUS)Prof A Lambirth Director of Research (EDU)Prof P Maras ECR Director Ms C Nyandoro-Kunzvi Secretary (GRE)Dr J Orchard Director of Research (NRI)Prof K Pericleous Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics Computing and

Mathematical Sciences (CMS)Prof S Thomas Director of Research (BUS)Prof E West Director of Research & Enterprise (HSC)Dr S Woodhead Director of Research & Enterprise (ENG)Dr D Wray Director of Enterprise (SCI)

1.APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Ms T Banton Research Support Manager (GRE) Prof C Bailey Director of Enterprise (CMS) Prof S Golding Research Ethics Chair (HSS)Prof E Galea Director of Research (CMS)Dr J Jameson Director of Enterprise (EDU)Prof J Morton Director of Enterprise (NRI)Mr J Wallace Administrative Secretary (Vice Chancellors Office)Prof S Wicks Director of Research (SCI)

2. ITEMS FROM THE CHAIR

2.1 The Chair welcomed Professor Koulis Pericleous, who was attending the meeting on behalf of the School of CMS.

3. MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE HELD IN 2010/12 ON THE 15thFEBRUARY 2012.

The minutes of the Research and Enterprise Committee held on 15 thFebruary 2012 were agreed by the Committee as a true and accurate record of the last meeting subject to the following amendments.

5.4 Peer Review of Research Funding Applications

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The last statement in the second paragraph should be This has caused the response from Engineering to be limited and it was requested as to whether the flexibility of criteria could be broadened. This was agreed.

7.1 Thesis Completion and Presentation/Write-up Fees

The last statement in the third paragraph should be amended as followsThose students with approved extenuating circumstances will have an interruption placed on their studies and therefore exempt from this fee for the duration of any such interruption.

4. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES

7.1 The Director (PGR) informed members that the matters arising from agenda item 7.1.for PhD Completions would be covered under agenda item 7.1 under Postgraduate Research Matters

7.2 The Director (PGR) informed members that the matters arising from agenda item 7.2. for PhD Completions would be covered under agenda item 7.2 under Postgraduate Research Matters

5. GREENWICH RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE

5.1 Research and Enterprise Financial Activity Reports

The Chair presented the Research and Enterprise Financial Activity report to the month ending 29th February 2012.

Revenues to the end of February 2012 were £7.4m (including NRI). NRI revenue figures were at £4.3m. This figure showed an increase of 13% (£860K) in comparison to the same period last year mainly due to increased activity in NRI. The predicted forecast for the 2011/12 academic calendar year was £15.5m of which schools were estimated at £6.8m and NRI £8.7m.

The Chair noted that early indications showed that NRI was doing well this year and there were increases in Science, Business, Architecture, Engineering, GMI and the central offices. CMS and Humanities were showing approximately the same performance as recorded last year. Health & Social Care showed a slight drop and Education showed a significant fall due to the Early Years Children's Workforce Development contract coming to an end.

Contracting to the end of February 2012 was at £9m of which NRI was at £5.6m and the schools were at £3.4m, an increase of 40% (£2.5m) in comparison to the same period last year. This was mainly due to NRI's EU Gratitude and the Yam (Gates)award. The schools also showed a steady increase in activity across a number of projects. It was anticipated that the target of £14.6m would be reached at the end of the year.

Contracting compared to money burn showed an improvement compared with previous years thus providing a better pipeline for contracts. The GUEL figure to the end of February 2012 was at £948K of which

Analytical Testing £260K from the School of ScienceResearch & Consultancy £546KSoftware Sales £125K from the School of Computing & Mathematical SciencesOther £16K

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The Chair thanked the members for all their efforts in increasing the revenues and contracting and encouraged colleagues to work at increasing the number of staff applying for bids to keep the revenue and contracting figures growing.

5.2 Research and Enterprise Bidding Activity Report

The Chair gave a brief update on the Research & Enterprise Bidding Activity report in the absence of the Research Support Manager (GRE).

Bidding totals to the end of February 2012 (incl NRI) were £14.6m for 179 bids. Bidding between August – October was at £4m and the figures from August to January was £11m. The bidding status slide showed that £13.2m worth of bids were pending an outcome, £814K worth of bids had been rejected by funders and £1.3m worth of bids had been awarded. In comparison to 2010/11, the bidding values seemed to suggest a decline in bidding submission and the Chair urged members to encourage colleagues across their schools to submit their Form 1 and Form 2 in order to get an accurate representation of the bidding activity across schools. Members were also urged to encourage colleagues across their schools to submit good quality bids so as to reduce the value of rejected bids.

Action:- The Chair urged members to encourage colleagues across their schools to submit their Form 1 and Form 2 in order to get an accurate representation of the bidding activity across schools

Action:- Members were also urged to encourage colleagues across their schools to submit good quality bids so as to reduce the value of rejected bids.

5.3 Peer Review of Research Funding Applications

The Chair updated the Committee on the status of internal peer review of applications. He was pleased to inform the members that the university now had an automated peer review assessment tool in place and a pilot scheme was being run in the schools of Engineering and Health & Social Care. The Chair bought to the Committees’ attention the Peer review assessment paper that had been circulated to members prior to the meeting and sought the Committees’ views or suggestions regarding the content.

Members discussed the report and the following recommendations were noted There was a general concern with regards to the timing of reviewing a proposal.

Members asked that this timeline be reviewed. An additional column (submission deadline) would be created on the automated

system to alert the reviewers of the proposal deadline. It was also proposed that an additional flag/check (reminder email) be built into the

automated system to ensure that bids do not miss the deadline due to the review process.

The ECR Director agreed to make the modifications to the report in line with the Committee’s recommendations and circulate the updated report to members as soon as it was available.

The ECR Director informed the Committee that the timeline for the project was on schedule. A review of the process was due in May and an updated report with feedback from the pilot schools would be presented at the next Committee meeting.

The Director Research & Enterprise (ENG) noted that the peer review system had been welcomed by the ECR’s in the School of Engineering and it was felt that the university was providing extra support to researcher’s in addition to the senior level of support already given within the department.

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Action:-The ECR Director to circulate the updated report to members as soon as it was available .

Action:- A review of the process was due in May and an updated report with feedback from the pilot schools would be presented at the next Committee meeting.

5.4 GREAT 2012 & REF2014 Update

The Chair noted that the report on GREAT 2012 would be deferred to the next meeting of the Research & Enterprise Committee. He asked the members to note the presentation on the REF to Heads of Psychology for their information and to familiarise themselves with the REF procedures, processes and timeline.

Action:- Report on GREAT 2012 to be presented at the next Committee Meeting .

5.5 REF2014: Institutional Codes of Practice

The Chair sought the Committee’s comments on the draft Codes of Practice of the REF 2014 submission circulated earlier to them. He noted that the Code of Practice would be presented to the Vice Chancellor for sign off prior to being submitted to HEFCE.

The Chair had held meetings with Deans and DREs regarding the REF process and proposed that each school obtain up to three external advisers per UoA for the next GREAT exercise to assist in the quality of the next REF submission. The advisers would recommend to each school the best method to coordinate their submissions based on the knowledge and experience of each school. The Chair noted that the University would be happy to pay for these advisers. This would be in addition to the required external assessors that would be sought for the actual REF panel process. The document also specified the REF Committee structure which would be the same structure as the GREAT panel.

The document included a timeline for the REF submission as well the roles of key people and or groups that would be involved in the REF process. The role of the Committee and external assessors was also included in the document. An appeals process was also incorporated in the Codes of Practice.

A discussion ensued regarding the draft and the following recommendations were made; The Director of Research (BUS) was of the view that the document would need to

build in more room on exceptions of the internationally excellent so to make informed decisions on a set of criteria to follow regarding submitting exceptions. The Chair asked the Director of Research (BUS) to send him a suggested paragraph by Friday 20th April.

The chair noted that he would correct the date and time periods in paragraph 4 . It was suggested that the GREAT 2012 Gantt chart be removed from the Codes of

Practice as this would be an internal process outside of the REF process and this would allow for flexibility in each school setting up a realistic internal timetable. Members agreed to this suggestion.

The Director of Research & Enterprise (ENG) proposed to the Chair that he would send a separate email to him suggesting corrections to typographic errors by end of day Friday 20 th April.

Members recommended that the £150 remuneration on page 25 be removed and update with a note that would allow for flexibility of a competitive rate of payment in line with the level of expertise that would be sought for assessors .

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The Chair reminded members that the deadline for external advisers to be agreed was May 15th 2012. Schools were permitted to have other advisers apart from the GREAT advisers but the institution would only pay for two or three assessors per School for each UoA. The process of obtaining School advisers would be led by Schools and approved by the university.

Action:- The Chair agreed to make the modifications to the draft Codes of Practice in line with the Committee’s recommendations and circulate the updated report to members as soon as it was available

6. ITEMS FROM SCHOOLS

6.1 Directors of Research and Enterprise Presentations on Successes, Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Enterprise activities in each School

6.1.1.SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTION REPORT

SUCCESSESDesign ResearchAVATAR (Advanced Virtual & Technological Architectural Research) Rachel Armstrong is in San Francisco taking part in the Autodesk IDEAS event on Synthetic

Biology and Design alongside some of the world's greatest synthetic biologists (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=18473644). She has just edited two book chapters for Wiley - on 'Other Developments in Synthetic Biology' and 'Biomaterials' ...

The group has organised a ‘Future Cities, Design as Research’ conference on 19 & 20 April. Corporations such as Autodesk, WSP will be attending and so will the founder of the Katerva Awards CEO Terry Waghorn.

Nic Clear is just back from Leeum Samsung Museum of Art where he gave a lecture on the work of Do HoSuh, and wrote a 3000 word essay for the catalogue http://leeum.samsungfoundation.org/html/education/lecture.asp?category=05. At the end of January he submitted an essay on 'Architecture and Science Fiction' for the Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (ed. Rob Latham).

Architectural History and Theory Group Alan Powers has written the following• Review of Green Cities, Blueprint.• Article on architecture in relation to the Royal Jubilee, Country Life.• ‘Flying Angels and Solid Walls’, AA Files, May 2012.• ‘From downturn to diversity’ in The Seventies: rediscovering a lost decade of British

Architecture, Twentieth Century Architecture 10, 2012 (jointly with Elain Harwood).• Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Classicism’ for conference book, MarsilioEditore (Venice).• ‘Townscape as a model of organised complexity’ for Journal of Architecture special issue.• ‘Modern History and the History of Modern’ for conference proceedings of Society of

Architectural Historians Annual Conference, 2011, to be published by Shaun Tyas• ‘Britten and his architects’ for A Musical Eye, Artists’ Choice Editions/Parrot Press• ‘Twentieth Century Murals’ for Liss Fine Art/John Sansom• ‘Two modernist might-have-beens: Walter Gropius at Christ’s College, Cambridge and Maxwell

Fry at All Souls, Oxford’, in Twentieth Century buildings in Oxford and Cambridge, Twentieth Century Architecture 11, 2013

Other Design Activity Adriana Cobo has been appointed a jury member for the Columbian Architecture and Art

Biennial. Howard Gilbey and others is involved in a project to build a Horticultural Education Centre with

Lottery funding. They have contributed to a booklet for schools and L.A.s on ‘sustainable

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construction’ published by Medway Council with European funds. The group has also been an advisor on the Lodge Hill consultancy process (a planning process involving Medway Council and a proposal for 2000 dwellings.)

Mark Ingham’s work '120 Days and Nights of Staggering and Stammering' has been published in a Finish Art Magazine called 'HESA imprint' http://www.hesainprint.com. He won a major prize from ‘Artist Wanted - Scope – Takes’ Miami Exhibition as the ‘Motion and Sound’ Category winner. http://www.artistswanted.org/site/winner/announcing-the-selected-artists-of-art-takes-miami-2011-2.

Sustainable Built Environments ResearchSustainable Built Environments Group, A PhD has been completed in in Strategic Asset Management and will now be examined. TSB contract signed (£99,000) with Octavia Housing Association on ‘Building Performance’. Keith Jones represented the University at a conference organised on the Horizon 20:20 Research

Framework for European funding. He has had a chapter published in a book on climate change, published by Wiley. He was also appointed to an EPSRC Peer Review Panel on research proposals for energy demand reduction.

The group presented 2 papers at a CIB conference in Capetown (W70). Keith Jones has resubmitted a COST proposal with partners from Saxion University (Netherlands)

and other European partners to the EU on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (£430,000).

The group have organised a conference on Sustainable Building and Sustainable Asset Management ‘Cutting Costs and Carbon Conference’ event hosted by Leeds Metropolitan's Centre for Knowledge Exchange and supported by the Carbon Control and Comfort project.

Sustainable Landscapes Group, Benz Kotzen has finalised his COST Action project (Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of

Desertification: Setting Up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub) which will result in EU funding of £430,000.

Tom Turner has published an eBook http://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Gardens-Walk-history-ebook.

Work on a project with Land Lease at the Elephant and Castle concerning landscaping has commenced

OPPORTUNITIES More staff are becoming research active and putting in bids for funding.

CHALLENGES As for the previous report, although there is a School-wide initiative to encourage additional

research activity, this still has to create the funding and outputs necessary for further progress and so, in recent recruitment activity, emphasis is being put on employing new staff with research output/potential.

6.1.2. BUSINESS SCHOOL REPORT

SUCCESSES Two Actavis training modules delivered by Chris Birch/Rob Robson. Value to UoG £6k Numark training to be delivered by Rob Robson. Value to UoG £5.4k

OPPORTUNITIES Bid submitted to Interreg by Chris Birch under the BENEFITS scheme. Total value €672k,

UoG BS share €300k and value to UoG BS €150k (€300k to Engineering) Concept note submitted with UK Carbon Trust, and two Chinese partners, to Greening Asia

programme. Total value ca €1.95m, UoG as leading partner seeks ca €850,000 Bid to be submitted to ESRC in April on secondary data analysis by Denise Hawkes. Value to

UoG £200k

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Bid submitted to 3ie Impact by Mehmet Ugur for systematic reviews. Value £43432

CHALLENGES None

6.1.3. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION REPORT

SUCCESSES The School CLE Doctoral Weekend in March, 2012 was successful, with keynote speakers

Professor Patrick Ainley on Phenomenology and Professor Alessandro Benati on Language Acquisition Research. Feedback from doctoral students and staff was very positive, with 85% rating the weekend 'very good' or 'good' overall, and 15% not able to attend but rating the programme itself positively: there were no negative ratings to the question "How did you rate the weekend overall?"

Dr Jill Jameson has been invited to present a case study on the implementation of Epigeum courses at a Leadership and Management in Higher Education event in central London being led by Professor Sir David Watson of the University of Oxford in a world class development involving 20 universities from around the world.

Francia Kinchington's paper on Professional Doctorate in Education was accepted for the ICPD3 International Professional Doctorate conference being held in Florence, in April, 2012.

Dr Jill Jameson has been invited to co-host a workshop on the REF with Professor Pat Sykes at the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR12) Conference in Plymouth in April, 2012. Her paper for the conference on Academic Identities was also accepted.

Professor Andrew Lambirth has been accepted to speak at a symposium on teaching writing at the European Association of Research into learning and Instruction in Porto, Portugal in July 2012 with colleagues from the Universities of Leicester, Exeter and Michigan State.

Professor Andrew Lambirth, Susanna Steele, Debbie Reynolds and Sarah Smith and 5 Primary School Teachers from the Poetry Champions Project have been accepted to give a paper and two workshops at the United Kingdom Literacy Association International Conference in July 2012

OPPORTUNITIES Roger Morfey, Diana Bath and Marion Kemp have been instrumental in organising the

Schools' first Education Partners in Practice (EPiP) day for April 2012, and invitations for this have gone out to a wide range of partners across London, Kent, the wider South East area and the UK nationally.

A submission to the Mercer Company is being prepared by Professor Andrew Lambirth to work with children and teachers from the Eltham area using ‘digital poetry’. The project is entitled The Streets of the Imagination.

Work is underway for a bid working with Sheffield Hallam University for the Higher Education Academy from members of the School of Education

Progress is underway to develop a high quality bespoke set of CLE/CELTEL Leadership and Management in Higher Education online training courses linked to Epigeum.

A British Educational Research Association/Society for Research into Higher Education joint Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning research event organised by the Centre for Leadership and Enterprise will be held on 11th May at Devonport House on 'Pedagogic Leadership in Post-compulsory education' with keynote speaker Professor Denis Gleeson of the University of Warwick.

CHALLENGES Although bid applications are significantly up this year, key issues continue to be to accelerate

the quantity, quality and range of School bids. REF 3* and 4* potential cut-off for REF submission will be a challenge for the School.

6.1.4.SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING REPORT

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SUCCESSES Wolfson Centre consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £157k, with work valued at £90k

in progress – Mike Bradley and Richard Farnish; Civil Engineering consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £84k, with work valued at £5k

in progress – Amir Alani; ISRL consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £26k, with work valued at £8k in progress –

Steve Woodhead and Jodie Wetherall; Two TSB-funded feasibility studies have been funded – value £17k – Spyros Skarvelis-

Kazzakos; CIPD held its second focus group meeting at Cummins Power Generation, 9th March;

OPPORTUNITIES Awaiting outcomes on four EU bids. Total value to UoG circa £1.6M; The Business Innovation Group (BIG-Kent) has been nominated by the University for the

THE Leadership and Management Award; EMERG will be running two industry short courses on 26th April and 21st June; Bid to UK-India Research Initiative submitted, value £30k, Kamran Arshad; CIPD has submitted bid to EPRSC in collaboration with Loughborough, Cranfield and Bath,

Innovative Manufacturing, value £220k, James Gao; EoI under development for KTP with Intertex Ltd, value £160k, Steve Woodhead; I-MOCCA Industry User Group Meeting to be held on 5th April, PredragRapajic.

CHALLENGES None at present

6.1.5.SCHOOL OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE REPORTNo report received.

6.1.6.SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES REPORT

SUCCESSES- Michael Blissenden, Sandra Clarke, Caroline Strevens: "Developing online legal

communities", International Journal of Law and Management.

- Mark Pawlowski: Orders for Sale: The Creditor and the Family Home, published in Family Law.

- The Department of Social, Political and Cultural Studies has organised a one day conference on the summer riots ‘Rethinking Violence’ (20 April).

OPPORTUNITIES

External bids Rebound project (EU) phase 2 – 100K- in partnerships with Heidelberg Germany

- Exhibiting the Database project (HERA)- 100K-.Consortium led by the University of Bergen, Norway

- BAAL Linguistic fund – 10K- Project on English grammar learning - British Council – 10 K Project on third language grammar teaching and learning

(University of Munich)- Daiwa Foundation – 5K – Project on Japanese teacher training program (Meikei

University, Japan)

CHALLENGES

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Review of potential UOA submissions for REF

6.1.7.NATURAL RESOURCES INSTITUTE REPORT

SUCCESSES Use of endosymbiotic bacteria as a novel biocontrol agent for crop pests and diseases (Gates

Foundation: US$ 100K) Mars Cocoa Pod Production Research (Mars: £50K) Pollinators of Cocoa (Caribbean) (EC ACP S&T: £210K) Retention of Provitamin A Carotenoids in Yellow-fleshed Cassava (Harvest Plus/Gates:

£100K) Integrated Management of the Brassica whitefly (AHDB: £45K)

OPPORTUNITIES Exploiting acoustic distortion by mosquitoes to listen on the wing (Leverhulme Trust: £50K) Agricultural Extension Capacity Building in Bangladesh (USAID: US$1million) The MOlecularBIologyLEarning (MOBILE) Initiative (Nuffield Trust: £130K) Yam virus diagnostics (Gates: £1 million) Virus screening of cassava planting material (Gates: Evaluation of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund IDRC: £100K)

CHALLENGESNone at present

6.1.8.SCHOOL OF SCIENCE REPORT

SUCCESSES Paul Dyer, Dr Simon Richardson and Prof J Mitchell have obtained £46k from CAG to

demonstrate the commercial viability of a proprietary antisense delivery platform.

Prof John Nicholson has accepted an invitation to present the Alan Wilson Memorial Lecture at the annual conference of the UK Society for Biomaterials

Prof Frank Pullen delivered a keynote lecture at the Twelfth International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography.

Dr Birthe Nielsen has won £1,440 from the Royal Society of Chemistry for a summer student.

Drs Tim Acott and Julie Urquhart (along with Dr Zhao at GMI) have edited a 14-paper special issue of Marine Policy.

OPPORTUNITIES Prof Jeremy Everett has accepted an offer to lead a consortium bidding for ca. €40M of

European funding to develop an industry/academia pharmaceutical compound collection and screening facility in Hamburg.

Fakhar Khalid is a member of a consortium bidding for TEMPUS funding to support the project Geoinformatics: enabling sustainable developmentin Uzbekistan (£653k, £46k to UoG)

Prof Pat Harvey has submitted an FP7 bid on the conversion of biowaste in developing countries (£3.7M, £732K to UoG)

Prof Pat Harvey has submitted an EU FP7 bid on glycerol power from microalgae (£2.9M, £783K to UoG)

Prof Pat Harvey is part of the consortium seeking EU Interreg funding to support Ecotec21 which will investigate combined heat and power technology (£4.26M, £1.38M to UoG)

Prof A Jimenez is seeking funding from BUPA to support the project Active2Work (£240k to UoG)

CHALLENGES

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No specific

6.1.9. SCHOOL OF COMPUTING & MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES REPORT

SUCCESSESFSEG:

1) Media coverage (13-24 Jan 2012), Professor Ed Galea’s expert comment on the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster reached an estimated 78 million people and had an advertising value of £250,000. Coverage to date includes:Sky News, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, ITV News, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Liverpool, BBC Radio Norfolk, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio One, US based ABC news, Australian based ABC news, BBC News website, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Lancashire, Adelaide Now website, Canadian based CBC Radio, Irish based Newstalk Radio, a Channel 4 documentary and the Guardian.Examples of media coverage can be found on FSEG facebook page at:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL347623579CA57443&feature=plcp&gl=GB2) Royal Australian Navy, agreed to £10K worth of training in the use of FSEG software.3) Battelle/US DoD, extension of Pentagon project, FSEG value £10K

CSEG:1) Aluminium Electrolysis Software Invoices sent out for Dubai Aluminium (£4k), Genisim ($5000) & Wireless Industrial Technologies Inc. ($5000)2) Software support agreement invoice sent out to ArcelorMittal (€10000)3) A further two successful PhD vivas: Tian Na (minor corrections), Stuart Easter (no corrections)

OPPORTUNITIESFSEG:

1) Bombardier Canada, aircraft evacuation analysis, in discussion, FSEG value £20K2) Thales/BAe Systems, analysis for Royal Navy new aircraft carriers, in discussion.3) USFRA/Volpe, in discussion for continuation of rail evacuation research project.4) RAN/AustDoD, in discussion for collaborative research into naval personnel behaviour modelling for surface combatants.5) In discussion with Evac+Chair concerning potential KTP6) In discussion with Kent Fire and Rescue concerning potential collaboration on research project concerning domestic fires.7) In discussion with several partners concerning possible EU FP7 Security bid8) In discussion with several partners concerning possible EU FP7 Transport bid.

CMRG1) DMEA (DoD USA) – bid for 6-months work to be submitted ($80k)2) Preparing EU/TSB OLAE+ bid (Value to Greenwich 325,000 euros)3) TSB proposal with Micross and Halibuton reached second stage (£160k)4) EPSRC outline proposal Smart Manufacturing submitted (£600k)5) EPSRC CIM outline proposal being submitted with Warwick, Southampton, Lancaster and Oxford Universities

CSEG1) EPSRC Ultramelt proposal (with Brunel) submitted (£266k)2) EPSRC TECalloy proposal (with Manchester Uni. & Diamond Lightsource) submitted (£279k)3) Discussions with Xstrata Zinc (ex Britannia metals, returning customers), re lead production processes – consultancy proposal to follow4 ) Discussions with ArcastInc (USA) for collaboration on a number of projects involving induction crucible technology and EM levitation (Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, Univ. of Texas, NASA)

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5) Discussions with Astrium (part of EADS) regarding the re-design of the electromagnetic levitation device on the International Space Station, following meeting at TMS int. conf. (US)6) Keynote by V. Bojarevics& Invited talk by K Pericleous at TMS Int. Conference (US)

CHALLENGES1) Maintaining funding levels in the worst recession in 60 years.2) Maintaining PhD student numbers within CMS following the imposition of PhD student fees by the University for internally funded bursary students effective from 1st Sept 2012.3) CSEG limited in ability to carry out more projects due to lack of trained personnel (incl. PhD students)

6.1.10.GREENWICH MARITIME INSTITUTE REPORT

SUCCESSES Dr Christian Bueger, Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, has completed his

Fellowship on Modern Piracy and moved to a permanent job at the University of Cardiff. Final reports completed and submitted. Total value of the Fellowship was £21,420.

DrPanos Kapetanakis has obtained a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Greek Ministry of Education for three years to research ‘The British and their Ionian Subjects in the Port-Cities and Grain Markets of the Black Sea and the Danube: penetration, settlement, integration (late 18th – mid-19th centuries).’ Of the three years, two are to be spent with GMI in the UK, the remainder with theNational Hellenic Research Foundation – Institute for Neohellenic Research (Greece). Exact value of the Fellowship to be confirmed but all costs for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work with GMI for two years are being met by the Greek Government.

Esther Copete, a PhD student, and an additional part-time member of GMI support staff funded as part of the Interreg-funded GIFS (Geography of Inshore Fishing and Sustainability) project (GMI and School of Science), have both now started work. The PhD student funding is £13,500 per year plus tuition fees for three years, the member of support staff is funded at £36,000 for two-and-a-half years.

OPPORTUNITES Dr Soon Ho Lee has submitted a strong application for a three-year Leverhulme Post-

Doctoral Research Fellowshipentitled "Securing the Maritime Commons: explaining and resolving the naval rivalry between China and Republic of Korea in the East China Sea". Reference number: ECF-2012-182.Total budget cost is £249,072 (Ac 1 Point 29) over 3yrs. UoG will match fund 50 percent of the fellowship if successful.

In concert with the alumni and development office GMI has instigated the establishment of two separate endowment funds. The first is the China Maritime Centre fund, to further the work of the China Maritime Centre within GMI, which has already received a donation of £1000. The second is the Maritime Fund, to attract donations from prosperous GMI alumni. The launch event will be on 21 June. Trevor Ware, a businessman and MA Maritime History graduate, has agreed to be Patron, to persuade others to donate significant amounts . The Fund will be used to raise GMI’s profile, to promote its courses and to attract further funding and investment. The target for 2012-13 is as follows

1x Scholarship £4,0001x Public seminar £1,000

2x Research project £7,500

1x MSc Maritime Security promotion campaign £1,100Total £13,600

CHALLENGES

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1. GMI remains critically dependent on RAE Formulaic funding, University competitive funding and external funding to retain its existing force of researchers and teachers.

7. POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH MATTERS

7.1 Outcomes of Research Degree Examinations and Completions - 2011-12

The Director (PGR) bought to the Committee’s attention two charts showing the outcome of research degree examinations conducted during the current academic year to date, and the research degree completions on a School and Institutional basis. It was proposed that the Directors of Research & Enterprise assist in maximising the conversion of outcomes of research degree examinations from Chart 1 (in gold) into successful completions (Chart 2) for their Schools/Institutes within the current academic session.

Sharon Lawson would circulate names of students in the gold category on chart 1 to all Directors of Research & Enterprise. This would assist the school academic supervisors in encouraging the named students to successfully complete within the current year.

The Director (PGR) was pleased to note that the figures from the report were higher than reported in previous years as the institution was examining and completing more. In order to maximise on PhD, MPhil completions this year and in 2012/13 in preparation for the REF, a deadline date by which the final, bound copy of the theses, and associated paperwork, must be submitted to the Secretary of the Research Degrees Committee to ensure presentation of certificates at the July awards ceremonies is 15 th June 2012. If the student could not complete in time for the award ceremonies, a deadline date by which the final, bound copy of the thesis, and associated paperwork, must be submitted to the Secretary of the Research Degrees Committee to ensure that the completion of the award is assigned to session 2011-12 is 28 th

June 2012.

The chair welcomed and endorsed the recommendations made by the Director (PGR).

Action:- Sharon Lawson would circulate names of students in the gold category on chart 1 to all Directors of Research & Enterprise. This would assist the school academic supervisors in encouraging the named students to successfully complete within the current year.

7.2 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) Report 2011

The Director (PGR) reported that in 2011 university research students engaged in the Higher Education Academy (HEA) organised Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES). The university’s report on the outcome of the PGRs engagement with the survey had been circulated to members prior to the meeting and based on a participation level of nearly 38% (compared with the average national figure of 32%), the results demonstrated that as a whole, the perception of the experience of Greenwich students was more favourable than the corresponding average figures for the Post-92 comparator group of universities.

However, the written comments made by some students were concerning, and attention was required to address eight recommendations that were included the report on page 16. These recommendations had been supported by Academic Council. The Director (PGR) proposed that Directors of Research & Enterprise disseminate the PRES report to colleagues across the schools highlighting the recommendations made on page 16.

The Director also sought the Committee’s views on how to make all students participate in the next survey so as to get an accurate representation of the overall student experience at the university. The Director of Research &Enterprise (HSC) suggested that the university could

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provide a series of incentives to get more students to conduct the survey. She also asked if the results from the report could be presented by school as opposed to the whole institution. This would help schools make a plan of action and speak to students individually. The Director (PGR) responded that he would look into this possibility.

The Director of Research (NRI) informed the Committee that the NRI and some other Schools across the university have a PhD Students Club which talks about external issues. He asked if these clubs be used as a platform to discuss the issues addressed in the report and to also allow students to encourage others to participate in upcoming surveys. The Committee welcomed this idea and the Director (PGR) would look into ways of disseminating the information to the students via this channel.

Action:- Directors of Research & Enterprise to disseminate the PRES report to colleagues highlighting the recommendations made on page 16 of the PRES report .

Action:- The Director (PGR) to look into the possibility of presenting the PRES report by School in order to help schools make a plan of action and speak to students individually.

Action:- The Director (PGR) to explore the possibility of disseminating information regarding student surveys via PhD Student Clubs.

7.3 UKBA Changes to University Rules for International StudentsThe Director (PGR) updated the Committee on the recent Statement of Intent issued by the United Kingdom Border Agency regarding current changes affecting study, and post-study work. The UKBA will limit, to five years, the time that can be spent studying under Tier 4 at degree level. (There are exceptions). These changes are due to take effect from the 6th April 2012. This change did not affect EU students.

The changes would also not affect students’ in the UK that have attained their Bachelors or Master overseas, but will affect the students who studied their first degree and Masters in the UK. The university was now faced with the problem of finding a way to transfer students from MPhil to PhD within the 5 year period so as to avoid the five year rule from taking effect.

It was proposed that an update to the banner system(to formally register students as MPhil/PhD) would aid in meeting the UKBA requirements and reduce the chances of losing students and revenue. It was proposed that a paper be compiled by the PGRO office giving an estimate of how many current students would be affected by the UKBA announcement, and an estimate of how many potential students would be at risk as well as the estimated revenue loss.

Action:- The Director (PGR) and the ECR Director to compile a report giving an estimate of current students affected by the UKBA announcement, and an estimate of how many potential students would be at risk and the estimated revenue loss. This report will be presented at VCG and Academic Council.

8. ITEMS FOR INFORMATION

8.1 Early Career Researcher Matters

8.1.1. Update on the Early Career Researchers

The ECR Director informed members that the Research Excellence Awards review panel would be held in May. Prizes for the Communicator of the year and the Research Excellence Awards would be presented at the university’s inaugural Research& Enterprise conference on the 25th June 2012.

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8.2 Research and Enterprise Funding Opportunities

The Committee noted the following funding calls for information:

8.2.1 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): SUPERGEN Marine challenge call 2 - 2050 research challenges for Marine energy (Wave and Tidal)

8.2.2 European Union (EU): The Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIGS) 8.2.3 The NIHR Health Service and Delivery Research (HS&DR); Research to Improve

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery and Organisation

9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

9.1 None to report.

9.2 Dates of 2011/12 Research & Enterprise Committee Meetings

Meeting Papers Received by

Wednesday 30th May, 2.15pm, B028, Medway

Wednesday 11th July, 2.15pm, QA075, Greenwich

11th May 2012

22nd June 2012

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