12.7 Management of research

This category covers information relating to the institution's management and funding of its research activities; it does not include the actual results or data of research undertaken.

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1. Research funding
2. Research quality
3. Research strategies
4. Research management structures and support arrangements
5. Research ethics
6. Research staff policies
7. Research students policies and procedures

1. Research funding

Statistical information on the major sources of the institution's research funding.

Details of the University's research funding allocation from SFC can be accessed in the SFC Circular SFC/14a/2009.

Details of the University's research income from all sources can be obtained from the University's Annual Report and Financial Statements.

2. Research quality

Results of external measurement of the quality of the institution's research.

Outcome of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996
Outcome of the Research Assessment Exercise 2001
Outcome of the Research Assessment Exercise 2008

3. Research strategies

Summary information on institutional-level strategic plans for research.

Further information will be available on request from the Deputy University Secretary.

4. Research management structures and support arrangements

A description of the structures the institution uses to manage and support its research activity. Institution's procedures for supporting research.

Self-archiving and research repository policy

Requests should be directed to the Research Office by making an information request to:

Freedom of Information
University Library
University of Abertay Dundee
Dundee
DD1 1HG

Tel: 01382 308833
Email: foi@abertay.ac.uk

University's FOI Enquiry Form

5. Research ethics

The institution's research ethics policies and procedures.

Key research ethics documents

6. Research staff policies

The institution's policies for supporting and developing fixed-term contract research staff.

Guidance on the use of fixed term contracts for research staff
Information and data on contract research staff at Abertay

7. Research students policies and procedures

The institution's policies and procedures for supervising and examining research students.

The University's policies and procedures for supervising and examining research degrees students are set out in its Research Degrees Handbook and are supervised on behalf of Senate by the Research Degrees Committee.