1. The Committee shall encourage and facilitate research appropriate to the School as an academic centre of scholarship and teaching in social studies.
2. In particular, the Committee shall keep under review the research activities of the School and:
(a) seek to initiate and to secure means for the development of research;
(b) develop the research strategy of the School, within the framework approved by Council and set out in the Strategic Plan, taking into account the School's preparations for the REF and overseeing Departments' rolling research plans;
(c) have the right to receive for assessment all new proposals for research or for extensions of existing research projects, which involve commitments on School funds and resources, other than the personal research of the staff or research financed from the Staff Research Fund;
(d) make recommendations to the Director concerning proposed applications by the School or by members of the staff to outside bodies for research funds for which, if granted, the School would be accountable;
(e) have the right to receive for assessment annual reports on the use of all research funds and grants for which the School is accountable;
(f) undertake regular reviews of all Research Centres on behalf of the School;
(g) refine research governance and quality measures to monitor school-wide research activities.
3. The Committee shall have overall responsibility for ensuring that research undertaken by members of the School is conducted in an ethically sound manner, in accordance with the School's policy on research ethics and research misconduct. Operational responsibility for research ethics will be discharged via a separate, dedicated committee as appropriate.