Objectives
Action Plan
New insights into prevention of disease, improving healthcare systems and quality of life
f Recognise research conducted in partnership
with the public, patients, and other key stakeholders in bio-medical, clinical, policy and industry settings
f Develop diagnostic and therapeutic innovations
Synergy between the University’s current and planned Research Institutes and Centres and our areas of research excellence
f Encourage, enable, and mentor our researchers
to increase the number of top decile and quartile one publications, and grant funding applications, particularly EU and non-exchequer funding
f Promote research with impact
International, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral research partnerships to promote excellent research
f Enhance research culture in the School and
its affiliated clinical sites through promotion of interdisciplinary national and international collaborations and the provision of appropriate research support
f Encourage the principles and practices of
meaningful Public and Patient and other stakeholder involvement across our health research programmes
Increased national and international funding applications, research outputs and postgraduate supervision capacity
f Encourage internal talent and provide support to
both research leaders and researchers at early stages of their career
f Foster a culture of PhD supervision by all eligible
faculty members and expand the number of academic staff eligible to supervise such research
f Successfully maintain or increase in the numbers
of conferred PhD and MD candidates
Enhance research capacity in our School and across our affiliated clinical network
f Recruit and retain high quality researchers
across the career pathway (early - mid – senior level)
f Encourage engagement with research networks f Provide research infrastructure, including
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Strategic Action Plan for Research
Table 2 Research: Action Plan
