Strategy 1: Research Culture

Goal: Strengthen its position as Bangladesh’s leading Humanities research university and build on the strong foundation of the diverse research opportunities:

  • Celebrate achievements; apply for grants; nominate faculty for awards.
  • Provide better coordination for the nomination of faculty research awards and prizes and enhance recognition of research and award success.
  • Increase the number and quality of grant applications through enhanced administrative support.
  • Improve tracking of research successes and publications. Create capacity to provide analytics on publications, awards, and citations.
  • Provide Dean of Arts Research Awards (semester buy-outs) for research projects.
  • Improve support for different centers and funded chair ships and professorships.

 

Strategy 2: Collaborative Research

Goal: Invest in and support collaborative research practices across the Faculty of Arts, the university, and with local and global partners.

  • Encourage faculty members to form and strengthen research networks, collaborations, and clusters for support.
  • Inaugurate a Public Humanities Hub for external-facing humanities research and seek parallel support to the DU research cluster program for humanities researchers.
  • Develop mechanisms to support centers, virtual and otherwise, that further Arts collaborations and support departments that have interdisciplinary connections within their units.

 

Strategy 3: Knowledge Mobilization

Goal: Create and mobilize knowledge exchange beyond the academy.

  • Encourage greater participation in innovation initiatives both within and external to the university. Enhance feedback loops to public and private sector employers.
  • Seek funding to expand the Institute for Future Legislators into a national network.
  • Support the development of Arts-based scholarly journals.
  • Use the Dean of Arts Lectures to reinforce grassroots interdisciplinary research initiatives from the faculty.
  • Continue to encourage, celebrate, and showcase the impact of our public scholarship through communications and storytelling.