RTC Action Points from meeting on 28th September 2012
Ownership of IPR Insertion required in the Code of practice regarding expectation requirements for students as it is
not currently covered. CB to send section to Bob Fisher to take up with IAD and the Item will be
carried forward to the next meeting of the RTC.
Action: Professor Bob Fisher & Professor Clare Blackburn
Supervisors Attending Training
List of staff and dates of attendance which was circulated at the last meeting by Louise Lawes in IAD,
BF to ask IAD if they can do this.
Action: Professor Bob Fisher/Louisa Lawes
PCDS
Induction:
BF and CW to liaise and arrange induction/welcome event for new PCDS Students &
Supervisors in the next month.
Action: Carol Ward and Professor Bob Fisher
New PCDS students and themes to be notified to the College and CW to put add names to
the PCDS wiki pages.
Action: All Graduate Schools and Carol Ward
Allocation:
Questions were raised regarding the allocation and weighting and whether allocation should
be depending on size e.g . School of biological Sciences is bigger than the College of
Medicine & Vet Medicine. Distribution across the colleges goes through REC and at present
the distribution is supposed to give all schools some investment. – A strong argument may
be funding and the size and number of students across the colleges. BF will talk to the new
chair of REC.
Action: Professor Bob Fisher
EPSRC
Query regarding 50% studentships was raised again and Bob Fisher said he would speak
again to EPSRC regarding this.
Action: Professor Bob Fisher
IAD Update
Louise unable to attend so CW to ask her to email update.
Action: Carol Ward
Annual Reports
Review of Internal School Annual Report Forms : CW to collect copies from Schools.
Action: Carol Ward
Informatics database: Small searchable integrated database for internal forms and other
useful data.
Heads of Graduate Schools to discuss with Graduate School Administrators if they have seen
this in action and whether they would be interested in having this available to them in the
School.
Action: All HOGs
Informatics currently do not have the resources to roll this out to other schools.
Action: Prof. Bob Fisher, Murdo Gillanders and Dr David Williams to discuss
REF – Completed PhDs
Encourage supervisors to have as many students completed by June question whether the census
date is November or June/July MG to check.
Draft letter to be sent out to supervisors from Committee or Heads of Graduate School. MG will
discuss with Susan Cooper next week. Either Bob Fisher/Andy Mount signing .
Action Murdo Gillanders