We encourage our academic staff to take an active part in research. Initiatives and incentives in place include affording staff research time, promoting research with a high impact, augmenting research funding, nurturing early career researchers, creating a multidisciplinary research environment, enhancing the quality of research outputs, giving staff teaching relief, providing mentoring, and enhancing the University’s research infrastructure.
The growing number of research postgraduate students arising from the University’s enhanced research capacity has generated a critical mass for the promotion of an active research culture among these students. Among the ways to increase the research capacity of research postgraduate students include providing academic guidance and support, enhancing students’ academic writing and research skills, enriching students’ international experiences by offering financial support for students to attend and present at international conferences, and offering financial assistance to support their research activities.
To maximise the benefits and synergies among academic staff and research postgraduate students and to increase the quantity and quality of research outputs, we will: