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emerging black and women
scholars
• improve the completion
rate and reduce the average
time to completion of PhD
students
• provide more opportunities
for undergraduate students
to undertake research
during their degrees
• protect the space, funding
and incentives for basic
research, including
blue-skies research in
domains where realworld applications are not
immediately apparent
• establish an environment
that supports and motivates
staff and students to
engage in interdisciplinary
collaboration, and
support or establish new
interdisciplinary research
institutes
• provide support to
researchers to attract funding
from international sources
• encourage innovation,
translational research and
research uptake, eg through
the School of Design
Thinking and the Cafe
Scientifique series
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