The Sub-Committee will provide expert advice and make recommendations to Research & Innovation Committee on the following, both in response to direct referrals and arising from its own review:
- strategy for the development of partnerships with key external organisations
- support for the development of systems to identify and record impact for knowledge exchange (KE) work in the University, and for reporting to government and other sponsors
- recognition for the wider application of KE, and ways to enable development in areas such as teaching and learning, local, regional and national engagement, including public, commercial and industrial engagement
- Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) Institutional Strategy and oversight of funded areas
- the research funders’ Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research, including its aims, what is expected of universities, the external support available to strengthen public engagement across the research and HE sector and how the University’s staff and students ‘can connect and share their work with the public’
In addition to the strategic tasks listed above the Sub-Committee will:
- review bids for HEIF funding, or future related initiatives, for recommendation to the Research & Innovation Committee
- maintain an oversight of HEIF funded activities, in the wider context of KE activities across the University
- receive and consider annual reports from each HEIF funded area which detail progress against objectives, and spend to date
- identify potential high-quality KE activity which might benefit in future from HEIF funding
- consider the development of relevant support for interdisciplinary activities
- consider the development of relevant training support for graduate students
- consider the possibilities for academic development schemes, including mentoring, related to KE activity
