Aims, purpose and terms of reference

Purpose of the Committee 

The CMVM Research Staff Committee (RSC) acts in partnership with the College Research Office. It brings together College and University academic and professional staff involved with the support and training of early career research (ECR) and postdoctoral staff with representatives from the ECR/postdoctoral community, to discuss and develop issues relating to researcher experience and support. For this purpose, ECRs are identified as post-docs, other grade 6, 7 & some grade 8 research staff & clinical research associates. 

The role of the committee is to develop and co-ordinate support for ECRs and to disseminate information relating to ECR experience (including Training & Development, Careers in and beyond Academia, Funding, Translational & Entrepreneurship Opportunities, Health and Wellbeing, Research Culture, Citizenship, Teaching Opportunities and Accreditation, Mentoring, Equality, Diversity and Integration, Open Science, Widening Participation, Public Engagement) for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. 

Aims of the Committee 

To maintain, assure and improve:

(1)  Quality of ECR support and provision across the College, both for the role in CMVM and in preparation for the next career stage, in line with the University commitment to the Concordat for the Career Development of Researchers.

(2)  Equality of ECR experience and opportunity across the College.

(3)  Communication to the college and school leadership for matters relating to and from the ECR community

Terms of Reference