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So at Bath Spa
University, I'm the

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Head of the Research Support Office.

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So that means I support
our Pro-Vice Chancellor

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for research and enterprise
with operationalisation

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of our strategy.

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So we work very closely
with our head of schools

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and our research
leaders in schools,

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to develop our
research environment,

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to work with academic staff
in terms of embedding cultures,

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in things like
research integrity,

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in leadership of research.

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So I review and evaluate our
progress against a Concordant

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to Support Research 
Integrity, against our HR

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Excellence in Research
Award, and that's all

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about supporting the culture of
our researchers and making sure

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that they have the systems,
and processes and procedures

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in place, to help them
develop their research.

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So the goals for
our research office

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very much tie in with our key
performance indicators, that are

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part of our research strategy.

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So we want to increase the
amount of research income,

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both internationally and the
UK, increase our research

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collaborations and partnerships,
especially globally, but also

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support our academic staff.

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So our ethos in the
office is very much

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helping academic
staff to deliver

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what they need to deliver.

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So we work with them very
closely on their research

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applications, do all of the
financial management for them,

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the approval processes, we
complete the financial sections

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on the electronic
forms, if they need it.

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So they can very much just
focus on the research questions,

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and actually the
delivery of the research,

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if they get the grants.

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So it's very much about
working very closely

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with and for our academics,
and making sure

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that they have the
tools and the support

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that they need to
deliver the research.

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We promote good research
conduct through a variety

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of different ways.

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We've just established an internal
ethics peer review college.

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And the idea is to
train up those people

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within the schools that
can then support and lead

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research ethics in their areas.

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We've also got mandatory, online
ethics training for all staff.

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And that's been a bit of
a challenge to implement.

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But we're now up to
95% completion, which

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means that the awareness
of ethical issues

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has really raised across
the academic staff, which

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has helped.

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And also within our researcher
a development programme,

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we run a series of
courses, for example,

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The Effective Researcher, which
is tied into the Vitae Research

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Development Framework.
And again, that

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covers a whole
range of areas to do

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with research good conduct,
and research integrity,

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and ethics.

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So as a small
institution at Bath Spa,

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the main challenge
for us is actually

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providing enough resource
to be able to support

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the academic staff and
the student community.

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So we don't have a
centralised online ethics

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system, which means it is very
much a paper-based exercise.

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But what we have
tried to do is to put

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a much truncated, and light-touch 
process in place

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for our undergraduate students.

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So we're rolling out a
series of light-touch forms,

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and data management plans,
and training for our program

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leaders, to help them facilitate
the undergraduate ethical

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processes.

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The data management
aspect of it has also

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being quite challenging for
us with the onset of GDPR.

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So we've been working very
closely with our compliance

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office in providing training,
and also developing checklists,

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so that academic staff know
what they're looking for when

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they're reviewing
the data requirement

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issues of the ethics forms.