Law Research Development Teams
The Sussex Law School has six Research Development Teams to support colleagues to attain the highest possible quality in their individual, and collaborative, research across outputs, impact and funding. All members of faculty are allocated to a team although faculty are encouraged to work across teams where appropriate for a particular research project or issue.
The six teams are:
Research Development Teams have the following functions:
- Provide research advice and support.
- Meet (at least once a term) to discuss matters including research development, mentoring, impact, funding.
- Encourage self-confidence and intellectual curiosity amongst colleagues.
- Encourage ongoing discussion around our research and knowledge about what colleagues are doing.
- Promote familiarization with REF criteria and REF developments.
- Assist faculty to develop publications identified for submission to the REF, during the planning, research and writing process, to the highest possible quality.
- Offer support to faculty in their research generally and with publications not intended for the REF.
- Read work in draft form (see the SLS document ‘Supporting Quality Publications: Work in Progress and Planned REF Publications’).
- Foster research collaboration.
- Develop leadership roles for junior colleagues.
The research development teams work with the existing Research Centres and research groups.