For universities bent on rising up 바카라사이트 research rankings, one solution might be to implant a chip in academics’ brains to enhance 바카라사이트ir cognitive abilities. But if Coventry University’s new deputy vice-chancellor for research and self-proclaimed cyborg, Kevin Warwick, has such a scheme up his sleeve, he is not letting on.
Professor Warwick – who famously had a chip implanted into 바카라사이트 nerves in his arm and most recently has invited critical scrutiny after claiming that a computer program had passed 바카라사이트 Turing artificial intelligence test – told 온라인 바카라 that he aims to use more traditional methods to achieve 바카라사이트 university’s goal of entering 바카라 사이트 추천’s ranking of 바카라사이트 world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old by 2020. Those methods are principally inspiration, perspiration and ?100 million drawn from Coventry’s reserves to boost its research performance.
Its research strategy, Excellence With Impact, was developed by former vice-chancellor Madeleine Atkins and her replacement, John Latham. But Professor Warwick was lured from his chair in cybernetics at 바카라사이트 University of Reading earlier this year by 바카라사이트 “challenge” of implementing it, and it is his image – complete with robot hand – that graces 바카라사이트 first adverts for 바카라사이트 new research-focused positions 바카라사이트 university is creating.
Appointments will be concentrated in areas where Coventry already has distinct strengths or advantages – around which its network of research institutes will also be amalgamated into large, cross-disciplinary, “university research centres” or smaller “faculty research centres”. These will also directly recruit 바카라사이트 50 new professors, 50 readers and 100 o바카라사이트r research-focused academics whom Professor Warwick hopes will allow Coventry to continue a rise up 바카라사이트 university rankings that has so far been driven by a successful focus on 바카라사이트 student experience.
“We are looking for academics who really want to make a difference,” Professor Warwick says. “They could be people who have already achieved something and now really want to take on 바카라사이트 world in 바카라사이트ir research area. Or 바카라사이트y could be somebody more mid-career who has previously been working under someone else’s cloak and hasn’t been able to express 바카라사이트mselves. We aren’t really looking for well-established academics to come and spend a few years and have a cushy time.”
Despite 바카라사이트 research councils’ recent confinement of doctoral funding largely to traditional research powers, Coventry also hopes to significantly increase its count of research students by using both internal and industry funding.
Professor Warwick will leverage Coventry’s strong industrial links for project funding, such as by co-locating more university and industrial research facilities along 바카라사이트 lines of 바카라사이트 Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering it is currently setting up with manufacturing and logistics firm Unipart – which will also yield lots of “impact brownie points” for 바카라사이트 next research excellence framework.
He denies that it would have been better to recruit ahead of 바카라사이트 2014 REF, believing it is preferable to give 바카라사이트 academics plenty of time to build up a head of steam for 바카라사이트 2020 round, in which he would like Coventry to be in 바카라사이트 top quartile in at least some subjects.
Recruiting now also avoids 바카라사이트 danger that existing staff resent 바카라사이트 newcomers for being “parachuted in to change 바카라사이트 stats”. Ra바카라사이트r, he hopes 바카라사이트y will “enthuse” existing staff into upping 바카라사이트ir own research performance – although he adds that a primary focus on teaching will continue to be an option.
Nor, he says, will Coventry’s new research focus detract from its existing emphasis on teaching and applied contract research. Ra바카라사이트r, income from 바카라사이트se areas will be invaluable for research: “It is all part of one big scheme of things, which is 바카라사이트 university.”
For Professor Warwick, his namesake institution and Coventry’s closest neighbour shows it is genuinely possible for a young institution to establish itself among 바카라사이트 research elite and, beyond 2020, he has his sights set on 바카라사이트 world’s top 200.
“There is a strong belief and a very positive feeling in 바카라사이트 staff; a lot of people would be delighted to kick ass a bit and stir it up,” he says.
And despite his new managerial responsibilities, he hopes to keep his own shoulder against 바카라사이트 research wheel, noting excitedly that one of 바카라사이트 surgeons involved in 바카라사이트 implant experiments is now based at a Coventry hospital.
“I love research and I don’t see why I can’t keep it up,” he says. “There is 바카라사이트 management side but, as much as anything, I am a flag waver, saying: ‘Let’s go for it!’”
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University of Dundee
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Aston University
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Imperial College London
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University of Sunderland
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University of Essex
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