Research Principles

The College of Physical Sciences has extremely high expectations of its research and its researchers. Accordingly:

1. It undertakes to provide an environment which enables its researchers to perform to their highest potential. This includes:
   
   
   1. Providing an intellectual and physical environment commensurate with its research aspirations.
      
      
   2. Providing access to training and development (in the widest sense) to allow its researchers to keep abreast of developments in their own research areas, and informed of developments within the wider research community.
      
      
   3. Providing channels of communication which allow avenues of expression for, and opportunities for timely implementation of, creative ideas, both within and beyond College and Institutional boundaries
      
      
   4. Providing ongoing opportunities for dialogue with the community of research users and potential beneficiaries.
      
      
   5. Providing identifiable career development paths, and mentoring, advice and guidance where appropriate, for all personnel engaged in research.
      
      
2. It will continue to search out and appoint high quality researchers, according to identified contemporaneous research priorities, informed by the insight of existing College personnel and by other factors deemed relevant at the time. The uncompromising driving force behind such appointments will be quality and appropriateness for the identified priority, and searches will be conducted on a worldwide basis.
   
   
3. The Postgraduate research training within the College will offer its students access to research staff who are acknowledged leaders in their field, and the assurance that they themselves will be informed of knowledge at the forefront of their own research area and those interacting with it.
   
   
4. The research strengths of the College will inform its undergraduate programmes and course curricula, offering students the assurance of the relevance of their programmes of study to contemporary issues.