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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 Division of Linguistics & Psychology 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 Division 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 2008

Role	Committee Member
Committee Chair (2008-2010) Senior Research Professor (ex officio)	Professor Christopher N Candlin
HOD T&L Committee Member Representative (ex officio)	A/Professor Linda Cupples
HDR Coordinator Academic (ex officio)	Dr Elizabeth Armstrong
Chair Professor, Linguistics (ex officio)	Professor Christian Matthiessen
ALLE Representative	Professor Anne Burns
AMEP-RC Representative	Professor Ingrid Piller
CLAS/SLLING/DRC Representative	A/Professor Trevor Johnston
CLSL	A/Professor David Butt
CTIR Representative	Dr Joanne Jeong (Alt for Ronowicz/ Napier)
Hearing CRC/PG Committee Representative:	Dr Catherine McMahon
HDRC Representative	A/Professor David Hall
Manager, HDR Administration (ex officio)	Robyn Guilmette

Terms of Office of Committee Members: 

Three years

Meeting Schedule 2008

Meetings are generally scheduled for Fridays preceding the Division HDR Committee

29 February 2008

16 May 2008

13 June 2008

15 August 2008

10 October 2008

5 December 2008

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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