Dr David LloydDean 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 Consequen
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What is Research
• Generation of new knowledge
• Transfer of that knowledge
Flavours
Investment
Return
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Bandwidth
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
Addressing Challenges
Addressing Challenges
Addressing Challenges
Addressing Challenges
Innovation Academy
•Creative Thinkers•Commercial Innovation•Policy Innovation•Social Innovation
Impact & Influence
Our next steps
• Advance ‘Sustainable Society’• Identify the translational paths from
non-traditional 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)
