Maximising the impact of the department’s research activities
Join the Research Committee
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.
Find more information on department research and grant support.
Research and Career Development Action plan
Aim: To monitor the department’s research strategy and its implementation plans, including oversight of the academic recruitment strategy and succession planning.
| 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. |
Aim: To support the development of collaborative research within the department and in other departments at Imperial, including strategic funding plans.
| 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 |
Aim: To ensure provision of support to staff and students to deliver high-quality, impactful research.
| 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 |
Aim: To oversee research career development amongst research faculty and staff, providing specific support not available elsewhere in the College.
| Objective | Action |
| Retain skilled technical staff and postdocs | Highlight internal jobs on the Research Support webpage and S&C newsletter – complete and ongoing |
| 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 |
| Explore the option of making some masters training available to PhD students and early career researchers | |
| Actively support career development | Showcase positive career development |
| Set-up S&C awards to give junior researchers an opportunity to acquire competitive funding |
Aim: To support staff in applying for internal and external 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 |
| Update the Research Support webpage – ongoing | |
| Ensure regular communication of internally managed calls. | Organise a webinar on internal calls delivered by Faculty |
| Circulate internal calls in a timely manner |
- To support the department for the REF submission
- To consider and act on recommendations from the Culture and Engagement committee
Committee membership
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Co-Chair, Surgery |
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Co-Chair, APMIC |
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Reader in Medical Decision Making, IGHI/Surgery |
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Professor of Molecular Endocrine Oncology, Cancer |
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Clinical Reader in Vascular Surgery, Vascular |
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Senior Lecturer in Translational Critical Care, APMIC |
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Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology, Cancer |
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Lead Nurse for Research at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust |
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Reader in Clinical Pharmacology & Medical Oncology |
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Clinical Senior Lecturer in Upper Gastro Surgery |
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Research Associate, APMIC |
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Research Fellow, Surgery |
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PhD student |
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Karen Pontifex |
Culture and Engagement Committee representative, S&C |
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Dr Rita Carvalho |
Research Manager, S&C |