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School of Law, Politics and Sociology

Law Research Development Teams

The Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Law School has six Research Development Teams to support colleagues to attain the ‎highest possible quality in their individual, and collaborative, research across outputs, impact and ‎funding. All members of faculty are allocated to a team although faculty are encouraged to work across ‎teams where appropriate for a particular research project or issue. ‎

The five teams are:  

Research Development Teams have the following functions:

  • provide research advice and support
  • meet (at least once a term) to discuss matters including research development, mentoring, impact, funding
  • encourage self-confidence and intellectual curiosity amongst colleagues
  • encourage ongoing discussion around our research and knowledge about what colleagues are doing
  • promote familiarisation with REF criteria and REF developments
  • assist faculty to develop publications identified for submission to the REF, during the planning, research and writing process, to the highest possible quality 
  • offer support to faculty in their research generally and with publications not intended for the REF
  • read work in draft form (see the SLS document ‘Supporting Quality Publications: Work in Progress and Planned REF Publications’)
  • foster research collaboration
  • develop leadership roles for junior colleagues.

The research development teams work with the existing Research Centres and research groups.