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Research and Career Development Committee

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Please contact Dr Rita Carvalho if you wish to join S&C's Research Committee.

Mission statement

The role of the departmental Research and Career Development Committee is to maximise the impact of the department’s research activities. The committee provides strategic oversight of research activities, ensuring an open, equitable and supportive research environment to support all staff and students in the department. It will link with other major research committees within Imperial College and associated NHS Trusts.

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Research strategies

Collaborations

Higher impact research

Career development

Grant support

General

Objective	Action
Ensure dissemination of the research strategy to the department	Provide a link between the department Senior Management Board (SMB) and the Faculty (of Medicine) Research Committee (FRC).
	Provide input into the FRC.
	Provide input into the S&C Away Day.

Objective	Action
Promote inter- and cross-departmental collaborations	Advertise the department webinars across the College to promote collaborations outside of the department.
Facilitate collaborations	Add a Collaborations section in the Newsletter
	Circulate a list of key words used in applications by PIs in the Department
	Highlight list of centres and institutes in the College in the Research Support webpage

Objective	Action
Identify different types of impact	Use or adapt the Visible the ImpaCT Of Research (VICTOR) tool. The VICTOR tool sets out a framework for capturing research impacts at an organisational level.
Education and training on impact	Promote activities such as open science, and train people on research culture
Develop a way/system to flag up and capture impact as it is identified/developed	Explore the idea of using ResearchFish to capture areas of interest
	Identify areas of high need and engage multi-disciplines

Objective	Action
Retain skilled technical staff and postdocs	Highlight internal jobs on the Research Support webpage and S&C newsletter – complete and ongoing
Retain skilled technical staff and postdocs	Promote research collaborations – ongoing
Support researchers in developing skills	Highlight career and personal development on the Research Support webpage and S&C newsletter – complete and ongoing
Support researchers in developing skills	Explore the option of making some masters training available to PhD students and early career researchers
Actively support career development	Showcase positive career development
Actively support career development	Set-up S&C awards to give junior researchers an opportunity to acquire competitive funding

Objective	Action
Increase the chances of fellowship applications being successful.	Set -up a peer-review and feedback process for fellowship applications – complete and ongoing
Improve compliance with grant application process, including established timelines.	Develop a flow-chart and additional information documents on the application process – complete
	Schedule annual webinars on grant submission process – complete and ongoing
Improve visibility of supporting information.	Develop and maintain the Research and Career Development Committee webpage – complete and ongoing
Improve visibility of supporting information.	Update the Research Support webpage – ongoing
Ensure regular communication of internally managed calls.	Organise a webinar on internal calls delivered by Faculty
Ensure regular communication of internally managed calls.	Circulate internal calls in a timely manner

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Members	Affiliation
Prof Alun Davies	Co-Chair, Surgery
Prof Padmanabhan Ramnarayan	Co-Chair, APMIC
Dr Olga Kostopoulou	Reader in Medical Decision Making, IGHI/Surgery
Prof Simak Ali	Professor of Molecular Endocrine Oncology, Cancer
Dr Colin Bicknell	Clinical Reader in Vascular Surgery, Vascular
Dr Kieran O’Dea	Senior Lecturer in Translational Critical Care, APMIC
Dr Laura Kenny	Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology, Cancer
Prof Mary Wells	Lead Nurse for Research at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust
Prof Rohini Sharma	Reader in Clinical Pharmacology & Medical Oncology
Mr Stefan Antonowicz	Clinical Senior Lecturer in Upper Gastro Surgery
Dr Nadia Soliman	Research Associate, APMIC
Dr Patrick Kierkegaard	Research Fellow, Surgery
Philip Leung	PhD student
Karen Pontifex	Culture and Engagement Committee representative, S&C
Dr Rita Carvalho	Research Manager, S&C

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