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# NAIL Strategy Notes

## Notes
- Group charter.
- Mapping based on methodology and application area.
- Collaboration on publications.
- Using the website to promote prospective PhD students.
- Shared pitch deck and a slide per member.
- Sharing of relevant contacts/outputs among team members - will benefit from greater visibility of work.
- The importance of an established pipeline
    - Transparency so it's clear for new researchers in the group.
- Attaching a sense of urgency/expectations could be counterproductive, but an expectation could be helpful.
    - Year 1: Present something even though it doesn't materialise in a publication.
- Identifying a range of potential outputs
    - Journal articles
    - Conference papers
    - Blog posts
    - Tweets.
- Building collaborations
    - Internal and external
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## What is a strategy?
The overall scope and direction of an organization or part of an organization and the way in which its various operations work together to achieve particular goals

### Why? - Function (Mission, Purpose)

- Impactful research
- Broad range of outputs
- Building national and international collaborative networks
- Make the group more visible to the outside world
- Reservoir of knowledge 
- Acceleration of Research through consolidation of research interests
- Be the best AI/Data science lab, producing cutting-edge ML research output both in applied and method 
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### Where? - Vision (The Desired Future State) and Vision Steps

- Increased engagement with academics across the University and beyond
- Expansion of the group through hiring.
- Help PhD students particpate in more than one project.
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- Bring AI to domains traditionally "segregated" from computing? (democratise AI)
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### What? - Strategic Objectives/Goals

- Increased visiblity of group's outpout.
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- Heavily engage PhD students and ECRs in scoping future funding and PhD studentships.
- Develop an evidence base and research track record for a future Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) bid
- Attracting talent to the group
- Widening participation
- Commitment to 
- Promote group to lay audiences and press as well as academic groups
- Get domain experts (from medicine, humanities etc.) engaged with NAIL.

### How? - Critical Initiatives

- Active output stream
- Proactively increasing visiblity of these outputs
- Videos for academic outputs
- Mark published papers as coming from NAIL
- Collaborate on papers so that they can be produced at a faster rate
- Have papers published by the members visible on the NAIL website
- Lower "barrier to entry" for publications from within the group, allowing for more "bloggy" articles along side traditional papers and conferences
- Outreach via a monthly newsletter of what's going on in the group
- Doing more with Slack or Teams (Slack channels per topic group?)
- Engage with domain experts, strive to deliver collaborative research projects
- Have a bit of a branding behind us and have things like slide templates so that it is easier for lab members to create content that is consistent and professional looking
- Open-source, free software, in "easy-to-consume" formats (reproducible research)

# Group Charter

- https://openai.com/charter/
- https://paperswithcode.com/
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# Github usernames
Please pop your Github username below:
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- Towers-D
- Matthewkm
- kirstenrichardson
- JacekCala
- ppintosilva
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