1. 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. 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. 3 The UK Research World New research problems across disciplines Co-working with funders International partners Knowledge Transfer LoLa grants Integrated PhDs

4. 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. 5 Seedcorn Funds Research ConversationProject PreparationResearch Project Dept/Faculty <£500 Seedcorn <£20k External >£large

6. 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. 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