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Figure 7: Needs of academic staff to increase engaging in research and external funding opportunities
by academic rank (0 = no answer, 1 = not at all a factor, 2 = not usually a factor, 3 = somewhat
of a factor, and 4 = a major factor)
Table 4: Research outputs reported by Academic staff
No. of publications Percentage of staff
Before 2003 Since 2003
Papers
Peer Review Other Peer Review Other
0 26.7 31.7 23.3 30
1-3 48.3 45 30 38.3
4-6 20 19.9 16.6 10
7-9 5 0 3.4 1.7
≥10 0 3.3 26.7 20
The ORD has an increasingly important role to play in this process. Academic staff members have
recommended that ORD needs to be more proactive in terms of seeking external funding opportunities,
providing targeted opportunities and that an ORD staff member should be assigned
to each faculty / department. Through its current strategic planning process, ORD is developing a
range of programs to establish effective habits of research and proposal writing by academic staff
that would stimulate greater engagement in research and scholarly activities.
Successful researchers have reported that success in getting external funding, is all about the
numbers game - the more proposals a given academic staff member writes, the more likely s/he
will find success. Therefore, the higher the percentage of staff members who are actively develop-
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