The Consortium of Institutes of Advanced Studies currently comprises 23 research institutes (full list of members) based within universities in Great Britain and Ireland. It is affiliated to the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

CIAS and its member institutes take an active role in promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research at doctoral level and beyond, and offer an organisational structure and programme to foster these aims. Members are committed to enhancing public understanding of academic activity.

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CIAS aims to enhance visibility of research institutes and their contributions within universities, in the UK and Irish HE communities more generally, and internationally. It aims to participate actively as an expert body in the formation of government and research council research policies.

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CIAS is steered by an Executive Group. Click here for a list of Executive members

Members may communicate with each other by means of cias@jiscmail.ac.uk. Click here for the list homepage.  If you wish to be added to the maillist, please contact rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk.

 

David Sweeney (HEFCE) spoke at the CIAS meeting on 19 October 2009. His presentation is viewable here: Impact and the REF.

CIAS response to HEFCE's Research Excellence Framework consultation, December 2009

CIAS LAUNCH

More information about events at CIAS institutions

Meeting, 22 January 2010

 

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CIAS is administered from the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Please contact

Rosemary Lambeth,
School of Advanced Study, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk

for more information.