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Annual Report on Research Activities to Research Grants Council Office of Research Support
2003
Annual report on research activities 2002-2003
Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)
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Report 1: Overview undergraduate and postgraduate education. The University’s research activities permeate its With a mission to become an internationally- teaching programmes, and enrich the learning recognized liberal arts university with Hong experiences for undergraduate as well as Kong characteristics, Lingnan has charted a postgraduate students. We encourage course of developments, improvements and academic colleagues to engage in collaborative changes in many areas to achieve its goals. research projects under the aegis of our Against a background of funding cuts and research centres and institutes, and to develop reductions in student numbers, we have research clusters. We hope we may thus managed to develop and improve in many improve collegiality and respond to the scholarly aspects in the past few years. The results of aspirations of our staff members. the Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs), which are conducted periodically by the The University’s research policy is designed to Research Grants Council, illustrate the optimize the use of research funds through remarkable journey that the University has quality enhancement, focused development and made in this area of its work. The collaborative endeavour. Quality enhancement institution-wide research performance index is achieved through faculty appointment and rose significantly from 12.32% in 1994 to continuing improvement of its existing staff 22.80% in 1996 and 38.85 % in 1999, even profile. Focused development is achieved as though the UGC had adopted a higher threshold a result of identification of areas of excellence standard in the 1999 RAE than those for 1994 and the recruitment of faculty to build up and 1996. According to a recent Internal RAE strengths in these areas. Collaborative conducted by the University using the same or endeavour is fostered by establishing research similar threshold standards of UGC 1999 RAE, centres that provide both research support and the Research Index as a whole was 67.90%, coordination. which had already surpassed the target rate of 60% as set out in the University’s Strategic Plan To ensure that faculty members will be given for 2003-2010. Of our staff, 42.86% had an adequate opportunities to engage in research overall score of “1” (meaning fully “research and development activities as well as a active”) as compared to only 25.64% in the concentrated period for writing, the University 1999 UGC RAE. has expanded the current study leave scheme by awarding a maximum time-off period from Institutional Policy on Research 6-month (on full pay) to 12 months (staff to We are committed to excellence in teaching and receive 9/12 of his/her normal salary) since the believe that quality research is as important as, academic year 2001-2002. This will allow if not more so than, teaching, at a liberal arts academic staff, through re-arrangements of university. The need to find an appropriate teaching schedule and utilization of summer balance between research and teaching was vacation, to be released from teaching and also emphasized by the last TLQPR Panel. administrative duties to concentrate on Research activities at Lingnan to a large extent research/study/writing full time. Altogether, ten support and enrich teaching. The synergy academic members from six departments, each between teaching and research helps to link for six months, were released in 2002-2003. research strengths to excellence in
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Annual Report on Research Activities 2002-2003 Report 1 – Overview ______