Cardiff Humanities Research Institute: Terms of Reference

Terms of Reference / Cylch Gorchwyl ¹

Primary responsibilities:

• Advancing the common interests of Humanities research at Cardiff University.
• Reinforcing the visibility of Humanities research to the University and beyond.
• Enhancing wider public understanding of the Humanities, including the value and status of both individual and team-based research.
• Strategic promotion, development, and coordination of collaborative and interdisciplinary research within and between the Schools, and with the Social Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
• Strategic oversight of training and career development provision for postgraduate research students and early career staff²

To be achieved through:

• showcasing internally and externally Cardiff University activities and achievements in key subject areas and themes across the Humanities;
• promoting to the University the need for adequate resources, infrastructure and IT support for Humanities research, including the provision of social and academic spaces;
• increasing research awareness and income in subject areas covered by the relevant funders by disseminating information about, and coordinating responses to, interdisciplinary funding opportunities involving the Humanities, and by encouraging new collective projects;
•  sponsoring interdisciplinary bids to the University and external funders for Visiting Fellowships and similar initiatives;
• sponsoring and promoting research workshops, seminars, conferences, guest lectures, and similar activities in the Humanities, including those involving Visiting Research Fellows / CHRI Research Fellows;
• providing a mechanism for co-ordinated responses to policy changes within the research agenda of relevant funders, particularly the AHRC and HEFCW; and
• co-ordinating Cardiff University’s application to the AHRC for block funding for PGR research.

¹ The Terms of Reference have been translated into Welsh.  All key documents of the Institute will demonstrate a commitment to bilingualism.

²  These activities will continue to be delivered and operationally managed through anticipated structures in the University Graduate College, Academic Registry (REGIS) and Human Resources (HUMRS).

Cylch Gorchwyl

Y prif gyfrifoldebau:

• Hyrwyddo buddiannau cyffredin ymchwil yn y Dyniaethau ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd.           
• Atgyfnerthu amlygrwydd ymchwil yn y Dyniaethau yn y Brifysgol a’r tu hwnt.             
• Gwella dealltwriaeth gyhoeddus ehangach o’r Dyniaethau, gan gynnwys gwerth a statws ymchwil gan unigolion a chan dimau.          
• Hyrwyddo, datblygu a chydlynu strategol ar ymchwil gydweithredol a rhyngddisgyblaethol oddi mewn i’r Ysgolion a rhyngddynt, a chyda’r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, y Gwyddorau Biofeddygol a Bywyd, a’r Gwyddorau Ffisegol. 
• Trosolwg strategol o’r ddarpariaeth hyfforddi a datblygu gyrfaoedd i fyfyrwyr ymchwil ôlraddedig a staff sydd ar gyfnod cynnar o’u gyrfa [2]

I’w cyflawni drwy:    

• arddangos gweithgareddau a chyflawniadau Prifysgol Caerdydd yn fewnol ac yn allanol mewn meysydd pynciau a themâu allweddol ar draws y Dyniaethau;                                                          
• hyrwyddo i’r Brifysgol yr angen am adnoddau, isadeiledd a chefnogaeth TG sy’n ddigonol ar gyfer ymchwil yn y Dyniaethau, gan gynnwys darparu lleoedd cymdeithasol ac academaidd;  
• cynyddu ymwybyddiaeth ac incwm ymchwil yn y meysydd pynciau mae’r cyllidwyr perthnasol yn gyfrifol amdanynt drwy ledaenu gwybodaeth am gyfleoedd cyllido rhyngddisgyblaethol sydd a wnelont â’r Dyniaethau, a chydlynu’r ymatebion i hynny, a thrwy annog prosiectau newydd ar y cyd;  
• noddi ceisiadau rhyngddisgyblaethol i’r Brifysgol ac i gyllidwyr allanol ar gyfer Cymrodoriaethau Ymweliadol a mentrau tebyg;
• noddi a hyrwyddo gweithdai ymchwil, seminarau, cynadleddau, darlithoedd gwadd, a gweithgareddau tebyg yn y Dyniaethau, gan gynnwys rhai sydd ynglwm wrth Gymrodoriaethau Ymweliadol / Cymrodoriaethau Ymchwil SYDC
• cydlynu ymatebion Caerdydd i newidiadau polisi oddi mewn i agenda cyllidwyr perthnasol, yn enwedig yr AHRC a CCAUC; a
• chydlynu cais Prifysgol Caerdydd i’r AHRC am gyllid bloc ar gyfer ymchwil ôlraddedig.