RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE

Minutes for the sixth meeting of the Research & Enterprise Committee in the 2011/12 Academic Session, held on Wednesday 11th July 2012, 2.15pm, QA075,

Greenwich Campus

PRESENT:

Prof T Barnes Chair

Prof A Reed Vice-Chair and Director of Postgraduate Research (PGR)

Prof C Bailey Director of Enterprise (CMS)

Ms T Banton Research Support Manager (GRE)

Prof A Benati Director of Research & Enterprise (HSS)

Mrs W Curran Finance Manager (Finance)

Dr M Davies Director of Research & Enterprise (GRE)

Prof D Isaac Director of Research & Enterprise (A&C)

Prof J Jameson Director of Enterprise (EDU)

Prof P Maras ECR Director

Ms C Nyandoro-Kunzvi Secretary (GRE)

Mrs J Sarakbi Research Support Manager (Maternity Cover)

Prof S Thomas Director of Research (BUS)

Dr J Orchard Director of Research (NRI)

Prof E West Director of Research & Enterprise (HSC)

Prof S Wicks Director of Research (SCI)

Dr S Woodhead Director of Research & Enterprise (ENG)

Dr D Wray Director of Enterprise (SCI)

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Prof C Birch Director of Enterprise (BUS)

Prof C Bellamy Director of Research & Enterprise (GMI)

Prof E Galea Director of Research (CMS)

Prof A Lambirth Director of Research (EDU)

Prof J Morton Director of Enterprise (NRI)

Mr J Wallace Administrative Secretary (Vice Chancellors Office)

2. ITEMS FROM THE CHAIR

2.1 The Chair welcomed the members to the final Research & Enterprise Committee meeting of the 2011/12 academic calendar session. He welcomed and introduced Mrs Jacqui Sarakbi as the Research Support Manager to provide maternity cover for the Research Support Manager (GRE).

3. MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE HELD IN 2010/12 ON THE 30TH MAY 2012.

The minutes of the Research and Enterprise Committee held on 30th May 2012 were agreed by the Committee as a true and accurate record of the meeting subject to the following amendments;

7.1 Phd/EdD Completions Data, 2011-12

The Directors were asked to work with supervisors and the named students over the next few weeks in order to reach the target of 60 doctoral completions and not 60%.

4. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES

5.2 The Directors of Research & Enterprise reported that work on developing a two year strategy to increase bidding across Schools was in progress. These would be presented at Committee in the autumn.

The Research Support Manager (GRE) informed the Committee that a meeting with NRI to discuss anomalies in the NRI bidding data was being arranged.

5.5 The Secretary (GRE) would chase up outstanding Schools that had not yet sent through their nominations of up to two ECRs  per School/ Institute to sit as ‘Observers’ on their local Research and Enterprise Committees as for a period of one year. From this process, two ECRs would be selected to act as the same on the University’s Central Research and Enterprise Committee for the corresponding year.

5. GREENWICH RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE

5.1 Research and Enterprise Financial Activity Reports

The Chair presented the Research and Enterprise Financial Activity report to the month ending 31st May 2012.

Revenues to the end of May 2012 were £10.8m (including NRI). NRI revenue figures were at £6.1m and Schools at £4.7m. This figure showed an increase of 7% in comparison to the same period last year mainly due to increased activity in NRI. The predicted forecast for the 2011/12 year end was £14.7m reflecting a 10% increase on last year’s figures.

Contracting to the end of May 2012 was at £14.3m of which NRI was at £9.2m and the Schools at £5.1m, an overall increase of 22% (£2.6m) in comparison to the same period last year. New contracting for this period included the NRI’s Cassava project at £2.4m, School of Science’s Ecotec project at £558k, and School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences’ Exomet FP7 project at £316k.

Cumulative revenues and contracting were on the rise and the Chair was pleased to note that figures were now in line with the trend analysis reported in 2009/10. This momentum would need to be maintained in order to ensure that research would be sustained over the next few years. Contracting compared to money burn showed an improvement compared with previous years thus providing a better pipeline for contracts. The GUEL figure to the end of May 2012 was £1.3m with an estimated forecast of £1.8m at year end.

5.2 Research and Enterprise Bidding Activity Report

The Research Support Manager (GRE) presented the Research and Enterprise Bidding Activity report to the month ending 31st May 2012. Bidding totals to the end of May 2012 (incl NRI) were £22.1m for a total of 278 bids. The year-end forecast was £25m worth bids in comparison to £20m in 2010/11 and 300 bids submitted this year in comparison to 200 bids submitted the previous year. Quarterly figures from August to October were £4.3m, November to January was £8.6m, February to April was at £6.9m and May 2012 was at £2.1m. The Research Support Manager (GRE) noted that there was a 3% decline (to last year) in bidding values if NRI was excluded from the data.

Bidding status showed that 62% of the overall bids at £13.6m were pending an outcome, 18% of bids valued at £4m were rejected and 18% of the overall bids worth £3.9m had been awarded. 62% of the bids were pending an outcome of which £800k worth of bids were under negotiation. This was a decrease of 18% in comparison with the same period last year. Bidding by funding source showed that 54% of the total number of bids had been submitted to the EU, 10% to overseas funders, 6% to UK Central Government & TSB, 15% to Research Councils, and 10% of the bids had been submitted to Charities.

Awarded totals to the end May 2012 were recorded at £8.1m (incl NRI) with a value of £3.7m submitted in 2010/11 and announced in 2011/12. Awards by funding source were 65% from the EU, 15% from the overseas funders, 8% from the UK Centre Government & TSB, 7% from the UK Industry, 3% from Research Councils and 2% of awards were from Charities.

The Directors of Enterprise CMS sought clarification from the Committee as to the agreed exchange rate of the EURO. The Research Support Manager (GRE) and Finance Manager confirmed that the rate currently being used at Greenwich was 1.25.

The Committee noted the increase in contracts & awards from the EU and asked if there was an institutional strategy in plan in the event of the EURO collapsing as well as to what would happen to awarded projects awarded when the EURO rate had gone down. The Chair noted the Committee’s concerns and proposed to meet with Reginald Daly and Wendy Curran to discuss the issues raised by members.

5.3 GREAT 2012 & REF 2014 Update

The Research Support Manager (GRE) updated the Committee with regards to the GREAT 2012 exercise. An updated timetable was presented to members with the launch date of GREAT2102 set for 16th July 2012. Members requested that the August dates on the timetable be updated to September so as to take into account the summer break and staff annual leave. It was agreed that the August deadline would be changed to 7th September 2012. An updated timetable would be circulated to members following the meeting.

The ECR Director asked if there was a procedure in place to offer support for staff members who would not be included in the REF exercise. The Research Support Manager (GRE) informed members that a website was being setup to address such issues and it was suggested by the Committee that a neutral person (possibly from GRE) be nominated as a central person to speak to staff who were unhappy during the REF process. The REF Institutional Code of Practice would be submitted to HEFCE before the end of July and circulated to members for dissemination across Schools. The Impact Guidance had also been completed and would be circulated to members after the meeting.

The Chair reminded Schools to send in details of their contracted Assessors as well as the budget required for them during the GREAT2012 exercise. Schools were also asked to send to GRE a copy of the signed agreements between the Schools and Assessors for retention. The Chair informed members that Schools would also need to re-write their Impact and Environment Statements in time for submission deadline of October 1st 2012.

The Research Support Manager (Maternity Cover) informed the Committee that an Impact workshop had been provisionally booked for the 4th September 2012. She sought the Committee’s views at to whether this date was suitable for the workshop to be run, and whether the members wanted the workshop run over one or two days. The Committee were happy for the a one day workshop to run on the 4 th September. The Research Support Manager (Maternity Cover) asked each School to nominate an Impact Champion who would attend the workshop on behalf of each school. The Research Support Manager (GRE) would send out an email to all Deans\DREs seeking nominations of the School Impact champion.

5.4 Academic Council – Review of Membership and Committee Operations

The Director (PGR) informed members that the Academic Council had endorsed the proposed structure of four Colleges/Faculties Research Degrees Committees (RDCs) reporting to the Research and Enterprise Committee. He presented the new structure and reported that the four new RDCs would operate for each of the four new Colleges/Faculties. The Faculty RDCs would have the same structure and Terms of Reference. Administration of the Faculty RDCs would be managed by the OSA and PGRO, and the Director (PGR) have the right to sit would sit on all Committees in an ex-officio capacity to ensure that protocols, procedures and regulations were adhered to and that summaries and issues raised are reported back to the Research & Enterprise Committee meetings. The Research & Enterprise Committee would also be responsible for monitoring and auditing the Faculty RDCs.

It was however proposed that the RDC continues with the current structure for the next academic year so as to ensure the smoothest of handovers to the Faculty RDCs. It is anticipated that the new structure would come into effect at the beginning of the 2014/15 calendar year.

6. ITEMS FROM SCHOOLS

6.1 Directors of Research and Enterprise Presentations on Successes, Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Enterprise activities in each School

6.1.1.SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTION REPORT

Name: David Isaac

School: Architecture and Construction

SUCCESSES

Design Research

AVATAR (Advanced Virtual & Technological Architectural Research)

Rachel Armstrong has two TED Talks: TED @ Cannes and a TEDU talk which is in TED Global at Edinburgh on aspects of designing with living materials. (N.B. TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: technology, entertainment and design.)

Rachel Armstrong has completed an opinion editorial for the Times special issue on Smart Cities which mentions AVATAR's work in Synthetic Biology & Architecture.

AVATAR is taking part at an event at the MU gallery in Eindhoven with Bruce Sterling, Warren Ellis and Simon Ings.

AVATAR members will be will be talking at the Marie Curie conference 2/3 July to the European Community on the scientific implications of their work.

AVATAR now have a PhD student who has transferred from Salford University and will be working on: The Bionic City: An Investigation into the Potential for Developing a Blueprint for Future Cities with Heightened Resilience to Extreme Meteorological and Geological Events.

The group received the award of a PhD Scholarship under the recent round.

Architectural History and Theory Group

Alan Powers has spoken at the following lectures and seminars:

‘1938: An Architectural Crisis at All Souls’, Chichele Lecture, All Souls, Oxford, 24 May

‘Paint and Colour in Twentieth Century Architecture’, Traditional Paint Forum, 25 May ‘The George VI and New Eizabethan Styles’, RIBA Public Programme, 29 May ‘Barnett Freedman’, Imaginative Book Illustration Society, 16 May, 2012. ‘Architects Co-Partnership’, British Design, Places and Spaces 1948-2012

conference, V&A Museum, 12 May ‘Arts and Crafts’ and ‘Not the Modern Movement’, English Heritage/Cambridge

University, Building History MA course, 22 April Teresa Stoppani has been invited to be a Visiting Critic in Architectural design at the

University of Brighton. She has written a book chapter: ‘The Island. Considerations for the City Without Boundaries’, in M. Lathouri and R. Dillon (eds.), AA/CC Architectural Association City Cultures Research Cluster.

Teresa Stoppani has also written ‘A Conversation of Many’, in David Chipperfield (ed.), Common Ground (The 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture) and invited onto the Editorial Board of the European Architectural History Network Journal.

The group received the award of a PhD Scholarship under the recent round.

Other Design Activity

Staff and students have organised a prestigious exhibition event in The National Concert Hall in Dublin in collaboration with University College Dublin entitled: Alternative Farming in Contested Space.

Reenie Elliott will be completing a research project in conjunction with UCL this summer on: The shifting relationships between power and visibility in the history of Berlins’ Observation Towers.

Sustainable Environments Research

Sustainable Built Environments Group,

Two key refereed publications have been accepted written by Keith Jones and other members of the group for publication in Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, and the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 

Keith Jones: will review 2 chapters in the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change technical report; has been part of the EPSRC Review panel for TEDDI 2 proposals; and reviewed the first draft of the EU SET 2020 plan. 

The group is part of the School of Science Interreg. bid (approx. £130,000 over 3 years, total £390,000).

David Isaac and John O’Leary have been contracted by Palgrave Macmillan to write two leading texts on their research in real estate valuation techniques and associated financial structures.

A PhD has been completed in in Strategic Asset Management and will now be examined.

Greg Bull has been involved in a European Commission FP7 Evaluation May 14- 25. The group received the award of a PhD Scholarship under the recent round.

Sustainable Landscapes Group

Robert Holden & Jamie Liversedge book design stage of Landscape Architecture as a Career, due for publication late 2012

Duncan Goodwin and Robert Holden attended at Research Scoping Workshop to advise Lend Lease on the redevelopment of the Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, to lead to research into existing urban tree protection and conservation during redevelopment.

Duncan Goodwin has a proposed doctoral research project looking at urban trees and their rooting systems with funding support from industry. 

OPPORTUNITIES

More staff are becoming research active and putting in bids for funding, there were large numbers of applications for the recent University competitive round for RAE monies. A series of School workshops, seminars and symposia have been launched to encourage dissemination and development of individual research. Mentoring sessions have also been set up to encourage further research activity amongst staff. More money is coming into the School; over the last calendar year some £1m gross has been earned, exceeding all previous periods.

CHALLENGES

As for the previous report, there is a School-wide initiative to encourage additional research activity and this has begun to create the funding and outputs necessary for further progress, especially with regard to the next REF. We also need to recruit more new research active staff.

6.1.2. BUSINESS SCHOOL REPORT

Name: Steve Thomas

School: Business

SUCCESSES

Bid to CIGREF by Riccardo Da Vita awarded. Value to Greenwich €20k Bid to British Council by Emanuele Lobina awarded. Value to Greenwich £5k

OPPORTUNITIES

Bid to Inventory House market research for consultancy by Matt Housden submitted. Value, all to Greenwich £13.5k

Bid to British Academy for work on community based tourism submitted by Jithendran Kokkranikal. Value to Greenwich £9.8k

Bid to HEFCE for HE Entrepreneur support submitted by Chris Birch. Value to Greenwich £25k

Bid to ISRF submitted by Ana Marr for mid-career fellowship. Value to Greenwich £58k

Bid to INET submitted by Sara Gorgoni for outline proposal. Value to Greenwich £98.7k

CHALLENGES

None at present

6.1.3. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION REPORT

Name: Dr Jill Jameson and Professor Andrew Lambirth

School: Education

SUCCESSES

• Dr Maria Papapolydorou, Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood Studies, was interviewed for the BBC’s Radio 4 Thinking Allowed programme about her research, re. adolescents’ perceptions of social class and friendships. The programme aired on 6 June.

• Dr Jill Jameson was awarded the title of Professor in Education by the University Professor and Reader Appointment Committee.

• 2011-12 has continued to be strong for the volume of Education bidding activity. • Successful small funding bids were won by Dr Gordon Ade-Ojo, Dr Keith Good, Mr

Simon Leggatt, Mr Keith Evans and Ms Cara Cahill. • Three Vice Chancellor’s PhD Scholarships were awarded: Poetry (Professor Andrew

Lambirth); Literacy (Dr Gordon Ade-Ojo); History of Childhood (Dr Mary Clare Martin).

• The Centre for Leadership and Enterprise organised a successful 11th May CLE-SRHE-BERA research event on Pedagogic Leadership in Post-Compulsory Education: Does it Exist?: Keynote Speaker Professor Emeritus Denis Gleeson, University of Warwick.

• The Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation held a successful 31st May launch event of the London Network for the History of Children and one-day conference on Youth, Recreation and Play, held jointly with Youth and Policy.

• The Centre for Leadership and Enterprise held a successful 8 th May Barefoot Leadership event: Successes, issues & coping mechanisms: Learning from ‘non-traditional’ Indian students in UK institutions: Keynote: Dr Isabelle Perez-Gore, University of Reading.

• Dr Jennifer Patterson organised a successful Natural Learning and Environments 15th

June conference on “Pragmatic and alternative ways of knowing, traditional views and contemporary challenges to our internal, external and environmental understanding”.

• School attendance and support for the Demystifying Theory educational research series has been very good: this successful series of events will continue in 2012-13.

OPPORTUNITIES

• As part of preparations for the REF Pilot, two external advisors have been sent publications from colleagues in the School.

• The Centre for Leadership and Enterprise is holding a research event on 27 June on: The Virtues of Openness and the 'Academic Spring'? With Keynote Speakers Professor Michael A. Peters and Professor A. C. (Tina) Besley (PhD) Waikato University.

• While bidding activity is strong, the School aims to respond to opportunities to improve the level of bid successes and amounts won.

• The School is supporting the return of the Discourse, Power, Resistance 13 conference to Greenwich (April, 2013) Dr Jill Jameson will contribute to the leadership of DPR with a new symposium and research series on The Carnival of Research Genres in 2012-13.

CHALLENGES

• Although the volume and range of School bidding activities has increased, continuing challenges are to accelerate the quality, amount and success rate of School bids.

• The School has continuing difficulties re. the number of senior doctoral (PhD/EdD) supervisors available to support the large doctoral programme: a doctoral review will be undertaken during 2012-13 to improve resourcing and staffing available for the programme.

• REF 3* and 4* potential cut-off for REF submission will be a challenge for the School.

6.1.4.SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING REPORT

Name: Steve Woodhead

School: Engineering

SUCCESSES

Wolfson Centre consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £240k, with work valued at £220k in progress – Mike Bradley and Richard Farnish;

Civil Engineering consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £146k, with work valued at £10k in progress – Amir Alani and Ian Cakebread;

ISRL consultancy work invoiced so far this FY - £28k, with work valued at £6k in progress – Steve Woodhead and Jodie Wetherall;

EU INTERREG bid BENEFITS approved, subject to contacting, value €187k to UoG – James Gao;

The 12th School Research Conference took place on the 10th July; PhD student sponsorship contract agreed with Cummins Power Generation – James

Gao.

OPPORTUNITIES

Bid submitted to EDF Energy, valued at £150k – Richard Farnish and Mike Bradley; EPSRC First Grant bid under development in communications engineering – Kamran

Arshad; New collaborative agreement in place with Alstom – Spyros Skarvelis-kazakos; EU ITN Bid under development by ISRL – Steve Woodhead; Significant contracts to undertake concrete testing for cross-rail tunnelling during the

2012-2014 period are expected.

CHALLENGES

Problems encountered in updating the School R&E pages of the University web site.

6.1.5.SCHOOL OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE REPORT

Name: Prof Liz West

School: Health & Social Care

SUCCESSES

Small grants awarded over the last month (HEIC £25K), Greenwich DAT (£11K), Bromley Council (£5K plus £2K from Alumni Fund

Further bids are in development totalling approximately £220k (£160K to UoG) by Jess Morgan, David Smith, John Foster, Terry Ferns and Gail Gilchrist

Big Lottery Funded Project has achieved high media profile since survey of LGBTQ young people opened, mainly in the gay press and radio but also letter in the Guardian

ECR awards won by Josh Davis (Excellence award and joint 2nd Communicator) Sexual Health Conference well received and financially profitable. Ros Delaney,

Lecturer in FCMH received £2K funding from HEA to support the conference Joint Plenary Lecture given by Dr John Foster at Royal College of Psychiatrists

Meeting Report on Peer Support in Prisons (Foster and West) now available on Samaritans

website Healthy Universities Video now available on Youtube Charlotte Jeavons, PL in Public Health has recently been invited to give 4

presentations or lectures for prestigious organisations

OPPORTUNITIES

Piloting of Schools peer review process is underway and work has commenced on the strategy to increase bidding but there is already evidence of increased bidding with new people bidding for the first time

NIHR call for research with Gypsies send by RDS for the attention of David Smith Dementia Agenda—lots of interest in taking this forward in the School NHS Kent&Medway asked for a proposal to support their public consultation on

mental health Professorial jobs—applications now closed with 14 applications received John Foster is in the early stages of discussing a KTP to develop a phone app for

depression and obesity

CHALLENGES

Improving our online profile. Clarifying the funding codes for the Research Centres to enable self-sufficiency in

funding. Finding new ways to work with new budget holders in NHS—Clinical Commissioning

Groups Disseminating research outcomes with colleagues from other departments and

Schools.

Recruiting research staff quickly enough for short-term funded projects to deliver high quality research in tight deadlines.

Increased competition for funds and projects coming to an end with decline in revenue

Imperative to ensure good publications for REF takes time from bidding.

6.1.6.SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES REPORT

Name: Alessandro Benati

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

SUCCESSES

Secured two PhD scholarships in Dubai (Private Foundation) in collaboration with University of Edinburgh and British University of Dubai for a project on Arabic language learning

OPPORTUNITIES

Memories of War/June Balshaw: submission for outstanding contribution to the local community- Times Higher Education

University of Greenwich Centre for Applied Languages Research

External bids

Maria Arche: Argument Structure in Non-Verbal Predicates: Models and Industrial Applications (collaborative bid- University of Lille and University of Tromso) AHRC-Networking Scheme - 32K

Opi Outhwaite: Wildlife disease risks: mapping a legal response - British Academy small grants- 7K

Andrew King: Ouida (1839-1908): a life on the Margins BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants - 3K

CHALLENGES

None at present

6.1.7.NATURAL RESOURCES INSTITUTE REPORT

Name: John Orchard

School: NRI

SUCCESSES

Exploiting the Potential of Wolbachia to Mitigate (Indian Government: £95K, £44K retained).

Policy Brief on Livelihood and Basic Services Support (CGIAR: £11K) CGIAR research programme monitoring (AGRINATURA: £100K, £70K retained)

Cassava Breeding and Seed Systems (Gates: £200K, £75K retained) In-Country and Regional Capacity Development in Climate Change and Health (UN:

£20K, £10K retained)

OPPORTUNITIES

Literature Review of the relationship between Property Rights and Development (DFID: £60K)

Strengthening the Extreme-poor for their Rights to Food (EC FSTP: £1.25 million, £250K – shortlisted)

Direct discussions with Gates Foundation on white fly. Discussions with DFID on next round of Accountable Grants

CHALLENGES

None at present

6.1.8.SCHOOL OF SCIENCE REPORT

Name: David Wray & Steve Wicks

School: Science

SUCCESSES

On the 12th of June 2012 the School hosted an Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences conference entitled: Amorphous IV: Hot melt extrusion and powder technology in pharmaceutical industry. Organisers Prof Martin Snowden and Dr Dennis Douroumis.

Dr Nazy Zand presented a review of her research on infant nutrition at the R&E Conference on 25th June 2012 at the Greenwich Campus.

Dr Elinor Thompson’s nomination to the Translational & Applied Microbiology theme of the SGM Eukaryotic Microbiology Division was successful and her term on the Committee will start in September 2012.

OPPORTUNITIES

Professor Jeremy Everett is a member of the LEADSPACE-ESC Consortium which has placed a bid against Topic 1 (European Screening Centre) of the Innovative Medicines Initiative Call for a European Lead Factory.

Mohammed Maniruzzaman, a PhD student, is reviewing abstracts in his area of subject matter expertise for the main US-based conference in the autumn.

Professor John Mitchell has been invited to present his work on drug impregnated thins films for paediatric use to the Pfizer Paediatric Working Group in July.

Professor Steve Wicks has been contracted to deliver training for the World Trade Group for a second year and will be delivering a bespoke course on quality risk management in pharmaceutical processing to Crucell in Switzerland.

Professor Martin Snowden will be producing a series of workshops based on the R&E Conference sessions on bidding for EU and TSB funding.

CHALLENGES

Bid and revenue targets are on track for 2011/12. No specific challenges are identified; it is however observed that our goals are being achieved by the activity of a few colleagues working on significant revenue-generating projects. The Dean’s initiative (vide supra) is part of a broader initiative to broaden the base of our bidding activities.

6.1.9. SCHOOL OF COMPUTING & MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES REPORT

Name: Ed Galea & Chris Bailey

School: CMS (from 1 June 2012 – 11 July 2012)

SUCCESSES

Bid to DMEA (USA) awarded $80,000 – start date 16 July

OPPORTUNITIES

CMRG shortlisted for EPSRC ICT-Manufacturing fuding. Value to Greenwich £800,000. Panel meeting in October.

CMRG invited to participate in EPSRC power electronics bids. This is part of £18M initiative. Submission date July 20th

EU-Plastic electronics proposal submitted. Value to Greenwich 280,000 euros. Outcome known August.

Outline proposal submitted to IeMRC on sustainable electronics manufacturing. Value to Greenwich £150,000.

PhD (wholly or jointly funded) with Argen Technologies (USA) in additive manufacturing for dental crowns.

CHALLENGES

Maintaining funding levels in the worst recession in 60 years. Maintaining PhD student numbers within CMS following the imposition of PhD

student fees by the University for internally funded bursary students effective from 1st Sept 2012.

6.1.10.GREENWICH MARITIME INSTITUTE REPORT

No report received

7. POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH MATTERS

7.1 Phd/EdD Completions Data, 2011-12

The Director (PGR) informed members that the target of 60 doctoral completions had been reached for the 2011/12 academic year. The target for the next academic year (2012/13) was 20 completions. Attention was drawn to Chart 2 where 62 outcomes required minor amendments. There were 19 exams that had not been able to complete corrections and these would be brought forward for action in the next academic year. The Chair thanked the Director (PGR) and the Directors of Research & Enterprise for their involvement in reaching the institutional target.

7.2 Vice Chancellors PhD Scholarships

The Director (PGR) informed members that the closing date for applications for the Vice Chancellors Scholarships was Friday 13th July 2012. He reported that a maximum of 40 scholarships were being offered and as of the date of the meeting, the following applications had been received per school

Architecture, Design & Construction 5Business 11Computing & Mathematical Sciences 9Education 1Engineering 47GMI 1Humanities & Social Sciences 6Health & Social Care 3Pharmacy 3NRI 13Science 13

The Director (PGR) requested that if,

Applications for any scholarhsips were of sufficient quality to justify interviews or

there were no applications deemed suitable for scholarships, the Directors of Research & Enterprise to inform the Director (PGR) as soon as possible, so that these scholarships may be readvertised.

The Committee agreed that if the scheme was to be re-advertised, they would need to be advertised mid-August, with a closing date of the end of September.

8. ITEMS FOR INFORMATION

8.1 Early Career Researcher Matters

8.1.1. Update on the Early Career Researchers

The ECR Director updated the Committee with regards to the ECR excellence and communicator awards that were held on the 25th June 2012. She reported that the event had been well attended and that the calibre of application received this year had been outstanding. The Chair thanked GRE for the work involved in making the event a success.

8.2 Research and Enterprise Funding Opportunities

The Committee noted the following funding calls for information:

8.2.1 The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Enterprise Research Centre

8.2.2 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA): Marine science to support the marine environmental management framework

8.2.3 Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency, (EU): Action three promotion of European higher education

8.2.4 The Directorate-General for Education and Culture, (EU): Pilot projects for the development of sector skills alliances

8.2.5 European Commission Framework Programme 7: Cooperation, (EU): FP7-2012-ICT-FI capacity building and infrastructure support (EU FP7 future internet)

9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

9.1 Outcomes of the Internal Investment Round

The Chair gave a report of the outcomes of the internal investment round for 2011/12. He informed the members that the fund had less money to distribute this year and with the quality of the applications, the money had been difficult to distribute.

130 applications worth £3.3m had been received for the RAE competition of which 57 bids were funded for a total of £782K.

33 bids worth £896K had been received for the HEIF round of which 16 were awarded for a total of £387K.

The RCIF fund received 20 applications worth £698K of which 4 were awarded for a total of £172K.

The Chair noted that he had approached the Vice Chancellor and the Finance Director to invest more money into the investment fund so as to allow more projects to be funded in future competitions.

9.2 Support for EU Bids

The Director of Research & Enterprise (GRE) presented the latest announcements regarding Framework 7 programmes. He noted that the EU had recently announced a call on the final FP7 programme worth EUR 8 billion. Attention was drawn to the ERC funding opportunities and Schools were encouraged to apply for funding as soon as possible as there would not be another funding round for 18 months. Schools could contact GRE with regards to application processes or timetables of in-house workshops or examples of previous proposals/evaluation reports. External consultants would also be made available to assist in the proposal reviews.

Links to call announcements were included in the presentation and would be circulated to members after the meeting.

9.3 Dates of 2012/13 Research & Enterprise Committee Meetings

Meeting Papers Received by

3rd October 2012, S309/10, Avery Hill Campus 14th September 201212th December 2012, QA075, Greenwich Campus 23rd November 201213th February 2013 QA075, Greenwich Campus 25th January 201317th April 2013, S309/10, Avery Hill Campus 29th March 201329th May 2013, B028, Medway Campus 10th May 201310th July 2013, QA075, Greenwich Campus 21st June 2013