[Physstaff] Faculty Review

[Erling Riis]

Dear All,
This has been a good day!
First of all a big thank-you to all of you for your contributions today and indeed for input over the last few months from those of you, who helped put the self-assessment document together. However, I cannot emphasize enough, that throughout this process there has been one source of help, that has been absolutely fantastic - that of Catherine. I am sure there has been obvious problems that never hit us because of her and other ones, that I never found out about because she had already solved them.
Anyway, the review team was 'hugely impressed by the Department' talking about 'impressive research', 'a positive outlook building on accomplishments', 'good plans for the future', and 'all staff being well engaged'. A number of challenges were highlighted and largely ones we knew about already: maintain/improve REF environment, student recruitment, KE, the reliance of a certain individual for teaching, etc.
We are now expecting a report, which we get to reply to, but I have a feeling that this is going to be a helpful document providing us support in the way we are taking the Department forward and to a large extent ammunition for the discussions we are going to have with the Faculty.
Best wishes
Erling


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Professor Erling Riis
Head of Department
Department of Physics,               tel: 0141-5483490
Strathclyde University,
John Anderson Building,             e-mail: e.riis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:e.riis at strath.ac.uk>
Glasgow, G4 0NG
UK

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