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PPAN/Advisory Panels

PPAN/Advisory Panels. What do we need from each other ?. Terms of Reference. Draft and maintain a roadmap describing current and future research opportunities in their areas, for presentation and approval by PPAN

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PPAN/Advisory Panels

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  1. PPAN/Advisory Panels What do we need from each other ?

  2. Terms of Reference • Draft and maintain a roadmap describing current and future research opportunities in their areas, for presentation and approval by PPAN • Consult and interact with the community to ensure its views are canvassed and there is an appropriate and effective route for communication with STFC on strategic programmatic issues • Make an independent presentation to PPAN on the relevant panel area in years in which an STFC Programmatic Review takes place, thereby providing community input to the programmatic review process • Respond to other specific requests from PPAN for advice as the need arises

  3. What does this mean ? • Draft and maintain a roadmap describing current and future research opportunities in their areas, for presentation and approval by PPAN • This is about ensuring we don’t get nasty surprises..i.e. major proposals we weren’t expecting • Some indications of relative priorities as well as relatives scale of likely future opportunities is important when planning a long-term programme • STFC can’t do everything so inclusion in a roadmap does not guarantee funding, clear decision gateposts are vital

  4. What does this mean ? • Consult and interact with the community to ensure its views are canvassed and there is an appropriate and effective route for communication with STFC on strategic programmatic issues • This should be obvious ! We do not want to be exposed ever again in the way we were at the last PR after the CSR… • This is not entirely a democratic process ! Community aspirations need to be reality-filtered and this is what the APs will help PPAN (and SB and the executive) do.. • Communication is of course two-way, so the APs should expect PPAN members to work with them and the communities in explaining decisions and issues as well as absorbing proposals…

  5. What does this mean ? • Make an independent presentation to PPAN on the relevant panel area in years in which an STFC Programmatic Review takes place, thereby providing community input to the programmatic review process • This is a crystallisation of the roadmap into more concrete priorities, i.e. rankings and balance between large/small projects, construction and operation vs exploitation.. • The APs should do this as part of the PR information gathering process for PPAN, but then once PPAN has made a first grand ranking, it should present this back to the APs for comment, as we did last time • Panels must understand however that whilst PPAN listens to their advice it has to consider the broader programme and may not ultimately accept in detail all AP reccommendations… (just as STFC does not always accept those from PPAN !)

  6. What does this mean ? • Respond to other specific requests from PPAN for advice as the need arises • This is a catch-all to cover e.g. in-depth reviews of specific areas, setting up ad-hoc sub-panels etc

  7. Where to start ? • The outcome of the last programmatic review and the reports of the relevant ad hoc panels is a good zero point for discussions • It is up to individual panel chairs how to run the panel (and to include community consultation) but later this year (or early next) PPAN will be looking for a Roadmap and some idea of the highest priorities in each area • In the immediate short-term SPO is looking for comments on the strategy documents..

  8. Possible Workplan I: Future Opportunities • identify the top major scientific challenges to be solved in the future (in 20 – 30 years) in this field world wide; • Highlight the UK involvement in research in these areas including what the UK reputation is in these areas and if it is likely that UK researchers will make these achievements; • identify what facilities will be needed in order for the UK make significant contributions to these areas; • based on b) understand which of a) and / or c) are the top priorities.

  9. Possible Workplan II: Matching Current Programme to Roadmap priorities • What are the science drivers for each of the activities e.g. how does x help the UK reach the identified challenge? • What is the UK expertise for each activity e.g. is the UK world-leading, if not, what specific activities are the UK involved in that will contribute to this? • What are the technological needs for each activity and what is the UK expertise in such technology (both academia and industry)? • In a fixed budget, what are the top priorities e.g. what really must be done in order to meet the challenge?

  10. We want to hear the Chairs’ views… • Discuss…

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