Faculty of Science Agents’ Conference 18th March 2009 Prof. Iain Hunter, Dean of Science
Welcome from Dean SIPBS, Dave Watson CIS, Derek Long and Steve Buchanan Chemistry, Forensic, Adrian Linacre Tours Bus to Glengoyne Plan
A Technological University: Scotland’s ‘MIT’
academic departments (plus 3 NDUs*) *NDU – Non-Departmental Unit Organisational restructuring
academic departments (plus 3 NDUs*) academic departments & Institute of Photonics *NDU – Non-Departmental Unit Organisational restructuring
Load Maths & STATS33.6 CIS40.3 PHYSICS10.6 PA CHEM27.7 SIPBS Overseas Students
Teaching informed by our research Continually modernising courses Accreditation of degrees Employability MRes degrees, change in balance from MSc 2/3 project based, whereas MSc is usually 1/3 Education
Research Research Spend Up in to £17.5M from £15M Research spend as fraction of core salary costs
Submitted all departments to Units of Assessment Pharmacy Chemistry Physics Applied Mathematics Statistics CIS
‘Quality’ versus ‘Power’ Analysis of Panel comments: - many Subprofiles are really informative - already planning for next event in ~2013 POST School of Pharmacy Power =1 Strathclyde0.91 Nottingham0.85 Bath0.69 Kings London0.68 Manchester0.62 Bioengineering Allied Health Health
Research Partnerships Scottish Research Pooling WestCHEM SUPA – Universities Physics Alliance SIPR – Institute of Policing Research SULSA – Universities Live Sciences Alliance SICSA- Informatics and Comp Sci Alliance soon Mathematical Sciences Marine Sciences
Partnerships- 2 Science and Innovation Award (our third) High Performance Computing Prof Mark Ainsworth Science Bridges Photonics Prof Allister Ferguson