Roles and Responsibilities
Rearch Committee Chair
Appointment: Academic Bridge Program (ABP) Research Committee (RC) Chairs serve for a full academic year (and one year as a regular member).
Reports to: The ABP Management Team
Summary of Responsibilities: The Chair is not assigned release time from his/her normal teaching load. He/she is responsible for liaising with committee members, management, chairing meetings and promoting ABP, ZU, and UAE research initiatives. The chair is supported by the Management team to achieve the RC vision, mission, goals and objectives.
Chair-Specific responsibilities are to:
- arrange and chair meetings and produce minutes when necessary.
- liaise directly with the Management team, RC members and ABP faculty.
- provide transparency through posting of meeting agendas and minutes.
- lead the organization of RC sponsored PD events on ILA days/weeks.
- advise the ABP management team on effective ways to promote research initiatives.
- follow the responsibilities as outlined for RC members.
- facilitate a smooth handover of duties to the succeeding Chair.
Research Committe Members
Appointment: ABP RC members serve for two academic years.
Reports to: RC Chair
Summary of Responsibilities: Research committee members are expected to regularly attend scheduled meetings and participate in all research committee projects. Their responsibilities include providing the ABP faculty with a clear picture of research opportunities at Zayed University, regionally and internationally. RC members are also expected to ensure that the ABP faculty are aware of the deadlines, formats, and procedures for proper research and support them in each of these steps to their best ability.
Member-Specific responsibilities are to:
- regularly attend RC meetings and contribute to the discussions.
- contribute to development of RC materials.
- help organize and run relevant research workshops, seminars, and sessions.
- instruct ABP faculty on proposal writing.
- review finished proposals and give recommendations to the ABP management team.
- provide ABP faculty with materials outlining effective research designs for accepted proposals.
- assist faculty in literature reviews.
- help faculty on data collection and analysis.
- inform faculty of proper reporting techniques for final findings.
