International Advisory Board June 2011Director’s Introduction

Steve Beaumont

No further pools to be created

No expectation of further funding for existing pools

£3M clawed back from budgets for existing pools

Existing pools to be formally reviewed

Universities expected to meet commitments to sustaining pooling

Pools encouraged to make joint submissions to REF2014

Pooling - General

Partners continue to invest in Engineering (JRI reports for details)

Glasgow Engineering restructured from four Departments to a single School with five Research Divisions: Aerospace Sciences

Biomedical Engineering

Infrastructure and Environment

Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering

Systems, Power and Energy

IIT Ropar MoU Two members of staff spening time in Glasgow summer 2011

GRPE

ERPE expected to make joint REF submission

Joint GRPE REF submission to be considered. Issues: Partial pooling

Selection policy alignment

Submission strategies

Detailed guidance late 2011

GRPE: Research Excellence Framework

Scottish Research Pool in Engineering Conference/Exhibition in Edinburgh, February 2011

Energy Technology Partnership continues to thrive

Scottish Sensor System Centre funded by Scottish Funding Council (joint with Informatics research pool)

Cross-Pool Activities

Take stock of progress and preparation for future. Consider:

What will the impact be on wider groupings across Scotland, e.g. energy?

What will be the opportunities for wider cooperation? What should the structure be? Are the existing JRIs successful and aligned with institution priorities? What are funders’ priorities and how do we align? Can an ETP equivalent be produced? What are the Pan Scottish priorities and what can the GRPE

contribution be to it? What are the internal priorities for REF?

GRPE Review