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Role

The role of the Linguistics Research Committee is to develop and implement strategies for enhancing research quality and output in the Department of Linguistics in line with the strategic plans of the Faculty of Human Sciences and of Macquarie University. 

The Committee advises the Head of Department on research issues and monitors, oversees, and promotes research activity within the Department in relation to the following tasks:

• Promoting and providing information on research and HDR programs
  
• Improving research infrastructure within the Department
  
• Enhancing research quality across the Department
  
• Developing and documenting policies and practices for research higher degree (HDR) programs
  
• Making recommendations to the Faculty Research and Higher Degree Research Committees on policies and procedures for awarding research higher degree scholarships and for promoting excellence in Research and HDR supervision
  
• Advising  the Head of Department on matters relating to the admission, monitoring and support of research higher degree students
  
• Monitoring and promoting excellence in supervision of HDR students
  
• Developing and implementing quality assurance processes relating to HDR supervision within the Department.
  
• Liaising with other Departmental Committees of relevance to HDR
  
  

Frequency of Meetings:

• Normally 6 times a year

 

Membership 2011

 

Role	Committee Member
Chair, CLaS representative	A/Prof Trevor Johnston
Deputy chair, Dept HDR coordinator	A/Prof Mehdi Riazi
Head of Dept	Prof Linda Cupples
Dept Research Professor	Prof Chris Candlin
ALLE representative	Dr Stephen Moore
AMEP-RC representative	Prof Ingrid Piller or A/Prof Lynda Yates
CLSL representative	A/Prof David Butt
CTIR representative	A/Prof Jemina Napier
Hearing CRC representative	Dr Catherine McMahon
Faculty, AD HDR	A/Prof David Hall
Faculty, Research Manager	Mr Colm Halbert

Terms of Office of Committee Members: 

Three years

Meeting Schedule 2011

Meetings are generally scheduled for Fridays preceding the Faculty HDR Committee

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2011    Research Sub-Committee LingResCom     DATE DATE VENUE TIME 15-Feb 4-Mar C5A 565 10:00 AM 19-Apr 29-Apr C5A 565 10:00 AM 31-May 3-Jun C5A 565 10:00 AM 19-Jul 22-Jul C5A 565 10:00 AM 30-Aug 2-Sep C5A 565 10:00 AM 11-Oct 14-Oct C5A 565 10:00 AM 22-Nov 25-Nov C5A 565 10:00 AM

Research and Research Training Enhancement plan

Goal

Monitor, evaluate and enhance the research performance of the Department of Linguistics by:

Objectives

1. Increasing the proportion of research active staff
   
2. Increasing the proportion of externally funded research grants
   
3. Increasing the number of A1, B1 or C1 DEST publications
   
4. Increasing the proportion of publications in top tier, high impact journals
   
5. Increasing research grant income from a range of sources public and private
   
6. Increasing collaborative research projects with industry, government, commerce and linkage partners
   
7. Maintaining HDR enrolments in line with supervisory capacity
   
8. Maintaining HDR completions in line with supervisory capacity
   
9. Increasing HDR within time completions
   
10. Increasing number of externally funded HDR scholarships
    
11. Monitoring, evaluating, enhancing, and promoting excellence in HDR Supervision

 

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