1. Emma Hare - Executive Officer (Research)
Supporting Prof. Bill Spence – VP (Research)

2. Facts and Figures £350m annual income £110m research income
£250m spent on new facilities and resources over the last fifteen years
4,000 staff
20,000 students of which 1,200 are PGRs

3. Doctoral Training Programmes
~£10m in Doctoral Training block grant funding
~£8m in QMUL funding (fee waivers, studentships)
Doctoral Training Partnerships/Centres:
- ESRC DTC (new DTP application underway);
- London NERC DTP
- BBSRC LIDo
- EPSRC DTCs (Media Arts Technology; Graphene Technology; Plastic Electronics)
- MRC
- AHRC (Associate partners)
- STFC (block grant)
Applications for Wellcome Clinical and BHF

4. Our Profile Top 1% of Universities globally (Time Higher Education)
6 Nobel prize winners
Ranked 9th in the UK for the quality of our research (REF 2014) up from 11th place in 2008
Linguistics and Drama ranked 1st in the UK and English ranked 5th
5th in UK for “world-leading” and “internationally important” outputs
Assure them that they can trust the quality and reputation of any institution that is listed as part of the top 200 institutions worldwide.
You may have to explain what the RG is dependent on the audience.
On the investment in infrastructure point talk about the refurbishment of the library, the refurbishment of the People’s Palace – where they’ll graduate if they come to QM. The ArtsTwo building, the facelift for SBCS and in 2015 we will be investing more money into the new graduate centre for HSS.

5. Research Impact: Making a case for the Living Wage
Professor Jane Wills (Geography)
QRisk – A statistical tool to manage
cardiovascular risk
Medicine and Dentistry
Commercial bumblebee trade
Professor Lars Chittka (Biology)

6. Research Strategy
Website:
Recruit and retain the best people
Recognise that the best research is a creative process not a managed one
Create the best research environment – support, policies, infrastructure, funding, organisational structure

7. The current HE landscape
REF: expected 2021
Green paper/Nurse Review: no HEFCE, Research UK = Research councils + InnovateUK + QR
Impact – increasing importance to funders
Research concentration – bigger grants, more consortia grants, the bigger HEIs getting a bigger slice (e.g. DTPs)
More government-driven initiatives – Northern Powerhouse, Graphene Centre,Turing Institute

8. Fostering innovation:
Dedicated units:
Business Development
QMI - Queen Mary Innovation
QMB – BioEnterprise Innovation Centre
Funding/strategic partnerships
IBM
Google
GSK
Pfizer
AstraZeneca
Spin-out companies:
Synthetic bone substitutes - sold to Baxter International in 2009 for ~US$330 million
Corporate software services - Listed on AIM March 2014 closing at £70 million on first day

9. Humanities & Social Science
Academic structures
Three Faculties:
Cross-faculty Centres
Humanities & Social Science
Science & Engineering
Medicine & Dentistry
Institute of Bioengineering
Centre for Mind and Society
Centre for Intelligent Sensing
Materials Research Institute
Life Sciences Initiative

10. Academic Leadership: Faculty VPs and VP International
Vice-Principal (Research)
Faculty Deans for Research
School/Institute Directors of Research
Faculty Deputy Deans for Research (PGR)
Principal
Faculty VPs and VP International
Professional Service Leads
Heads of School
Leads for impact and innovation
Group/Centre Leads

11. Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) Research Degrees Office
Professional Services – Research Support
Joint Research Management Office (JRMO)
Research grants
Doctoral College
Oversight of PGR student experience
Research Degrees Office
PGR regulations and registration
Library
Publications, Open Access, Open Data
Centre for Academic and Professional Development
Researcher training
Queen Mary Innovation
Business Development
Research IT

12. Communications External and Internal webpages
QMSE Updates – VP Research
E-Bulletin (news, seminars, events)
Research network meetings:
PS Research Advisory Group
VP Research Consultation Group
Research Managers meeting

13. Mile End Campus
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