Lead Academic – Academic Advisory Board Sample Clauses

Lead Academic – Academic Advisory Board. The Lead Academic will be responsible for championing the project and raising visibility through engagement with the research community and ensuring that the project achieves its key goal of promoting research through the use of administrative data and also that the learnings are shared. This person will also be responsible for delivering on quarterly research seminars with the external research community on a diverse range of relevant topics, and helping to overcome and unblock challenges throughout the project, particularly with regard to external data-shares with other government departments and opening up our data. The Lead Academic will also lead a paid Academic Advisory Group of 6-8 academics, each working for around 8-10 days a year on this project. Academics will be chosen to add knowledge and skills in data engineering, data linking, data security, data science as well as research. You will be responsible for leading the group and administering their skills and experience as required. This person will also be jointly supervising a team of five fast-stream Government Social Researchers who will be involved in initial data mapping and will conduct analysis and research on the new datasets once established, and working with senior analysts at the MoJ to oversee strategic research commissioning based on the newly linked and shared datasets in line with the new MoJ Evidence Strategy. Eligible expenditure covers the period 2019-2022. Staff T&S Equipment Other* * Other includes costs for: Data acquisition; IT systems; Software; Hardware upgrades; Training; Information Assurance. The following costs/payments will be classified as Eligible Expenditure if made for the purposes of the Funded Activity: i. The Grant Recipient should pay for the accountant’s reports, unless there was a very clear Ministerial/Parliamentary intention that the grant can’t be used for this purpose; ii. giving evidence to Select Committees; iii. attending meetings with Ministers or officials to discuss the progress of a taxpayer funded grant scheme; iv. responding to public consultations, where the topic is relevant to the objectives of the grant scheme. This does not include spending government grant funds on lobbying other people to respond to the consultation; v. providing independent, evidence based policy recommendations to local government, departments or Ministers, where that is the objective of a taxpayer funded grant scheme, for example, ‘What Works Centres’; and