FASoS self-evaluation report on research 2017-2022.pdf
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… by the Associate Dean for Research, and includes the four research programme directors. The OTO meets six times per year, and provides advice to the Board on, inter alia, allocation of internal funding to support research and valorisation activities, visiting researcher applications, open science policies, and helps to define profiles for the recruitment of new staff. The Research Support Office (RSO) supports the work of the Faculty Board and research programme directors. The RSO includes a … €35,000 in Research Stimulation Funding (RSF) and Valorisation Stimulation Funding (VSF). Colleagues can apply to these funds (three deadlines per calendar year) for small amounts of funding, for example to employ a student assistant, organise a workshop, request material support for an exhibition, etc. (see Appendix 4). Proposals are reviewed by the OTO, and the Faculty Board makes final decisions on the allocation of funds. In addition, in recent years, we have been successful in securing funds … and different systems for tenured and non-tenured staff. Given the Strategic Plan encourages more diversity in types of output for different stakeholders and in language of publication, and given the national changes in HR policies, it was time to re-visit our policy (see Appendix 5 for current Research Output Policy). The annual benchmark of three peer-reviewed publications per full- time researcher remains. Given our workload allocation of 60% of time for teaching and administration and 40% for …