1 Deep, fresh, imaginative research Love of scholarship Low barriers to collaboration Global reach with local roots The IAS The Institutes The Queens Campus The College Quality everywhere Sabbatical leave Research at Durham

2 14 th in the UK in THE ranking for 2008 RAE 5 th in UK in number of departments at no.-1 position. So we have a long way to go but we can get there! How do we rank?

3 The UK Research World New research problems across disciplines Co-working with funders International partners Knowledge Transfer LoLa grants Integrated PhDs

4 Major items for 2008/09 Raise the profile of and good practice in research – Research Forum, – follow up the ‘ Big Ideas’ initiative – interdisciplinary initiative - SDF Fund! – Creative sabbatical leave Work with the new, evolving Research Office – Alerting, costing, internal review, financial management, assessment (comparators) Getting Durham connected (e.g. AHRC panels) Encouraging international research partnerships – Harvard? Fudan.. Other “bottom up” partnerships Assessing the implications of RAE 2008 Participating in the REF pilot and developing the necessary processes to deal effectively with REF.

5 Seedcorn Funds Research ConversationProject PreparationResearch Project Dept/Faculty <£500 Seedcorn <£20k External >£large

6 “Research Forum” Monthly early evening with a drink Open to all Showcase a research area(s) Discussion of research opportunities News from research councils News from RO EU and international stuff IAS opportunities …

7 Durham 2014? Every staff member active researcher (with work load flexibility) Every department in top 20% for research Evolving portfolio of ~10 leading institutes Sabbatical destination of choice in UK Durham in top 50