Aims of the Research Policy

Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences And Research Centre to promote scientific temper and research culture among its faculty and students by providing the required resources and appropriate facilities to conduct quality research. It hopes to realize the vision and missions of the institution and uphold to the established standards and norms relating to safe and ethical conduct of research.

Objectives of the Research Policy

1. To create a research fund for supporting and facilitating research initiatives and projects of faculty members and students
2. To strengthen the institutional capacity for strategic, technical and operational planning, budgeting and control of all research activities of the University
3. To develop rules, procedures and guidelines for granting research support, instituting awards, and supporting all other related activities
4. To develop rules, procedures and guidelines for granting study leave, sabbatical leave, duty leave, reduction in workload, etc. for faculty members’ research activities.
5. To provide a modality of for proper coordination of all research activities of the University and aligning these to the vision and missions of the University and national development goals.
6. To prepare and update the research agenda of the University outlining the preferred focus areas and priorities of research activities to be supported.
7. To guide faculty members in the effective integration of research projects with the regular curriculum implementation and curriculum enrichment activities.
8. To identify researchers about the appropriate research opportunities announced by different academic, research, industry or government organizations.
9. To promote interdisciplinary research and establish modalities for preparing and undertaking joint research projects covering more than one knowledge domain as well as policies for involving external agencies/experts in such projects.
10. To provide a research code, which informs all researchers about the ethical and legal norms and principles to be followed in the conduct of research.
11. To establish linkages including MOU s for long-term relationships with national and international research organizations for widening the scope of research opportunities and funding options available to the teachers and students of the Institution.
12. To support the publication of the research work/projects in reputed academic journals and provide incentives for the same.
13. To support the presentation/communication of the research work/projects as well as their findings and recommendations through academic events such as workshops/seminars/guest lectures or the media.
14. To implement research quality assurance mechanism for ensuring that all research activities of the institution.
15. To enforce rules and procedures to ensure the compliance of all researchers to the research quality assurance framework, the research code and all the applicable rules and regulations.

Research Policy Implementation Mechanism

The Research Cell of the institution shall be responsible for implementing this research policy of the University by working closely with the University management. The specific roles and functions of the research cell will be as follows:

1. To facilitate the faculty in undertaking research and advice the management to set up a research fund for providing seed money
2. To provide research facilities in terms of infrastructure, i.e. laboratory equipment, and research incentives required by the faculty.
3. To promote a  research culture (eg.  teaching workload remission, opportunities for attending conferences ).
4. To prepare rules & guidelines for Grant of Research related  leave and other remissions, a research agenda with relative priorities.
5. To support the faculty to undertake research by collaborating with other research organizations/ industry.
6. To derive suitable procedures for giving due recognition for guiding research.
7. To facilitate the establishment of specific research units/ centres by funding agencies /university.
8. To organize workshops/ training programmes/ sensitization programmes are conducted by the institution to promote a research culture on campus.
9. To prepare budgets for supporting students’ research projects.
10. To approach National and international organizations such as CSIR, DST-SERB, DST, DBT, NATO, DRDO and BARC to fund major and minor research projects undertaken by the faculty / students.
11. To improve the availability of research infrastructure requirements to facilitate research.
12. To develop and implement an official Code of Ethics to check malpractices and plagiarism in research.
13. To facilitate Interdepartmental / interdisciplinary research projects.
14. To institute research awards.
15. To provide incentives for the faculty who receive state, national and international recognition for research contributions as well as research awards and recognition from reputed professional bodies and agencies.
16. To promote the publication of research articles by the faculty in reputed/ referred journals.
17. To maintain a database of research work and research projects undertaken by the faculty and students as well as collect data by metrics such as Citation Index, Impact Factor, h-index, SNIP, SJR etc.
18. To publicize the research expertise and consultancy capabilities available in the University.
19. To encourage publication leading to patent/ patenting research activities.
20. To encourage collaborative research with International/ National repute institutes.
21. To facilitate the provision consultancy services to industries / Government / Non- Government organizations / community/Public.
22. To invite industry to use the research facilities of the University and sponsor research projects.