The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), in conjunction with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is pleased to bring together international academics, researchers, and funding bodiesfor the two-day conference, from 14 to 15 March 2013 at Lecture Room 6, Level 3 Nanyang Executive Centre, on the importance of the long-term vision of research policy.
The conference provides a great opportunity for senior and early career academics as well as university administrators responsible for research, innovation and internationalisation to sit together, look at and discuss a variety of factors that will move research policy from its short-termism to a broader and more interdependent relationship.
Confirmed speakers include: Professor Cham Tao Soon, President Emeritus, Nanyang Technological University and Chancellor and Chairman Singapore Institute of Management University; Professor John Wood, Secretary General, ACU; and Sir David King, Former Director, Smith School, University of Oxford.
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Pushing the research frontier - long term vision of research policy |
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Thursday 14th March |
Lecture Room 6, Nanyang Executive Centre |
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10.00 |
Coffee and Registration |
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10.40 |
Welcoming Remarks |
Prof Stephen K. Smith,
Vice President Research, NTU |
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10.45 |
Opening Plenary
Research policy: the Europe and Asia perspectives |
Prof Cham Tao Soon
Prof Michael Khor |
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11.45 |
Roundtable discussions |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 |
Plenary session:
The importance of the long term vision in setting national research policy |
Sir David King |
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14.15 |
Roundtable discussions |
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15.15 |
Networking break |
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15.45 |
Plenary session:
Issues and challenges of Open Access |
Choy Fatt Cheong
University Librarian, NTU |
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16.30 |
End of day one |
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17.30 |
Departure for dinner |
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18.15 |
Dinner |
Function Hall 1, Nanyang Executive Centre |
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20.00 |
Return to hotels |
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Friday 15th March |
Lecture Room 6, Nanyang Executive Centre |
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9.30 |
Coffee and Welcome |
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10.00 |
Plenary Session:
Getting research out of the lab |
Heather Piwowar |
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11.00 |
Networking Break |
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11.30 |
Roundtable discussions: The review process: finding and funding the best |
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12.45 |
Lunch |
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13.45 |
Plenary Session:
Facilitating international collaborations |
Professor Steve Hillier, Vice-Principal International, University of Edinburgh
(And possibly Nottingham Malaysia PVC Research) |
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14.25 |
Networking Break |
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14.55 |
Roundtable discussions |
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15.30 |
Plenary sessions:
Global challenges on the research frontier |
John Wood |
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16.00 |
Closing Plenary:
The future of research |
Prof Low Teck Seng, CEO, National Research Foundation, Singapore |
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16.45 |
End of the day |
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