MPLS Impact and Innovation Committee: Terms of Reference, Membership for 2014/15
The committee’s duties and responsibilities are as follows:
(a)To coordinate and promote HEIF5 (and any successor funding stream) and cognate activities across MPLS, ensuring effective exploitation of University infrastructure and resources in support of these activities;
(b)To seek out and support exploitation of interdisciplinary and cross-departmental working;
(c)To develop, consider, and recommend such policy mechanisms and frameworks in support of collaborative research and business engagement, seeking to identify and overcome such barriers to the development of this stream of activity as appropriate;
(d)To coordinate other MPLS outreach and knowledge and technology transfer activities, supporting and advising on these developments as appropriate;
(e)To serve as a forum in which greater information sharing can be supported and identifying ways in which information sharing practice can be promulgated;
(f)To share best practice on business engagement;
(g)To engage with and coordinate activities in other parts of the University as may be relevant to MPLS, notably the Business School, Oxford Martin School and such as others as appropriate.
The Group will not have operational or budgetary responsibilities for the Begbroke site; these responsibilities currently reside with the division. The Group will meet on a termly basis.
Membership 2014/15
(1)Head of Division(Chairman)A Halliday
(2)Head of Innovation and ImpactS Wright
(3)Associate Head of ResearchC Deane
(4)-(6)Three departmental representatives drawn from L Tarassenko
Heads of Department in MPLSC Grovenor, L Dolan
(7) BSP Business Manager and Senior AdministratorC Livingstone
(8)One MPLS research facilitatorM Warren
(9)One Begbroke Business Development ManagerJ McCormack
(10) The Head of Research Services (Science) or her nomineeB Murray
(11)-(12) Up to two co-opted members.P Grant; P Grindrod
Secretaryship of the committee will be provided by the MPLS Divisional Office.
Other divisional and Begbroke Science Park officers to be in attendance as business dictates.
The committee shall have power to co-opt up to two further members in support of its specific activities.