1. Faculty of Science Agents’ Conference 18th March 2009 Prof. Iain Hunter, Dean of Science

2. 14.00 -14.15 Welcome from Dean 14.15 - 14.25 SIPBS, Dave Watson 14.25 - 14.35 CIS, Derek Long and Steve Buchanan 14.35 -14.45 Chemistry, Forensic, Adrian Linacre 14.45 - 15.30 15.30 - 16.30Tours 17.00 Bus to Glengoyne Plan

3. A Technological University: Scotland’s ‘MIT’

4. 2005 10 academic departments (plus 3 NDUs*) *NDU – Non-Departmental Unit Organisational restructuring

5. 2005 10 academic departments (plus 3 NDUs*) 2009 5 academic departments & Institute of Photonics *NDU – Non-Departmental Unit Organisational restructuring

6. Load 2007- 8 Maths & STATS33.6 CIS40.3 PHYSICS10.6 PA CHEM27.7 SIPBS196.3 308.4 Overseas Students

7. 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

8. Research 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 Research Spend Up in 2007- 8 to £17.5M from £15M Research spend as fraction of core salary costs

9. Submitted all departments to Units of Assessment Pharmacy Chemistry Physics Applied Mathematics Statistics CIS

10. ‘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

11. 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

12. Partnerships- 2 Science and Innovation Award (our third) High Performance Computing Prof Mark Ainsworth Science Bridges Photonics Prof Allister Ferguson

13. i.s.hunter@strath.ac.uk