Dr David Lloyd
Dean of Research
‘Can Research Change the World? The importance
of research in addressing global development
challenges’
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Can research
change the
world?
YES
Local Mission
• Driving Ireland’s Development
– Making Education & Knowledge Work
– Enabling Ireland as a Global Citizen
• Roadmap
– Focus on quality, not just quantity
– Empower the 4th Level
– Build on research strengths
– Collaboration and Partnership
Why Quality?
Research Excellence
Excellent & Innovative
undergraduate education
Creative,
Flexible Graduates
Quality & Quantity
of PhD’s
Specialists with
the appropriate skills
New
Knowledge
Enterprise,
Policy, Culture
Research of
Consequence
What is
Research
• Generation of new knowledge
• Transfer of that knowledge
Flavours
Investment
Return
Bandwidth
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Grand
Challenges
Non-silo
approach
• Excellent curiosity driven research is not
walled in, it doesn’t respect or
acknowledge geographic, economic or
political boundaries, its hardly ever
‘directed’ – it is organic and self propelled
Non-silo
approach
• Two major local challenges:
– Identify such research & layer application
upon it so that its consequence can be
realised
– Derive mechanisms for translation of output
to action via policy
Addressing
Challenges
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Impact &
Influence
Generic &
Transferable Skills
in an
interdisciplinary
context
Higher IQ
Graduates
(Innovation
Quotient)
Discipline-based
PhD Students
Innovation
Academy
•Creative Thinkers
•Commercial Innovation
•Policy Innovation
•Social Innovation
Our next
steps
• Advance ‘Sustainable Society’
• Identify the translational paths from nontraditional origins
• Think on how best to programmatically
link the interests of researchers (which
are individual) to development-linked
return on investment (which may be
intangible)