Our Functions include:
- Initiate and take responsibility for research projects and may be Principal Investigator
- Be involved in project management including the preparation of proposals for research funding, managing other researchers and monitoring research budgets.
- Expected to be undertaking research individually and/or collectively and to be advancing the state of knowledge and understanding within particular area of expertise.
- Be expected to be establishing a growing reputation within their particular research field and academic discipline and to be developing and demonstrating intellectual independence on Islamic contemporary issues like Islamic Finance, Waqf etc.
- Identify potential funding sources and prepare and write proposals for funding
- Play a leading role in research teams to which they belong, including progressively larger and/or more complex projects.
- Play a major part in the dissemination of their (or the team’s) research findings, presenting at conferences and contributing substantially to publications
- Produce publications of international quality or exhibit potential for international quality (through strong national quality publications), at the frequency appropriate to the discipline
- Ensure intellectual rigour and adherence to ethical standards in the research for which they are responsible
- Help colleagues to interpret their data, to manage competing priorities, and to develop their research skills
- Ensure that knowledge and methodological/technical skills in their own, and related, areas of scholarship are extended and inform research activities
- Monitor and, where appropriate, manage research resources (e.g. time, materials, finance, laboratory space, equipment) effectively
- Play a leadership role in mentoring junior colleagues and co-ordinating the work of research and support staff
- Supervise staff and take responsibility for their training
- Participate in the selection of staff working on their own projects, take on some specific responsibilities within the Centre
- Contribute to the teaching of the Centre (e.g. giving lectures in their specialty)
- Play an active part in research networks, develop contacts with external bodies including funding bodies, and actively seek out and develop opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
- Begin to referee papers and grant proposals for external bodies
- Begin to chair sessions at conferences
- Contribute to meetings
- Be aware of own professional needs and take the initiative in fulfilling them
- They may make a major contribution to events involving the public engagement of Islam
- To take a leading role in developing entrepreneurial links either with external organisations or with Centre spin-out companies, and engaging in consultancy activities.
