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EVENT: The Case for Growing STEMM Research Capacity in Wales

Date: Thursday 14 May 2015

Time: 13.10 - 14.15

Location: Senedd

Description: Event Background: Prof Peter W Halligan (Learned Society of Wales) and Dr Louise Bright (Associate Director for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in Wales) have written a historical review paper to be published by The Leadership Foundation (LFHE) as one of its research papers in May. The LFHE is a UK organisation that provides support and advice on leadership, governance and management in higher education (see www.lfhe.ac.uk).www.lfhe.ac.uk) Paper Background A long-standing priority of Welsh Government policy and the Welsh Office over the past 20 years has been securing Wales’s ‘standard share’ of UK research council funding. This paper provides a selective, historical overview of the main reasons why, despite a range of initiatives this target was never achieved. We argue that Welsh universities secured proportionally less research income from the high-spending science and medical research councils, in large part due to the historical shortfall of academic science and medical researchers working in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) in Wales.This report provides a current estimate of the STEMM staff shortfall in Wales estimating that compared to its standard population share, Welsh universities have a collective research staff shortfall of some 0.5%. Building on the Sêr Cymru initiative, the report notes the chief scientific adviser for Wales is currently leading initiatives focused on building STEMM staff capacity.

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