The assessment report by the evaluation committee of the BMS midterm research evaluation has just been formalised. As mentioned during All Hands on BMS, the BMS faculty board is working towards a board response and values your input!
What is a “midterm”?
Every 6 years, a research unit (in this case: BMS) has a research evaluation, where the unit composes a self-evaluation and an evaluation committee visits the institution to give useful input and feedback. This evaluation cycle follows the national Strategy Evaluation Protocol. The protocol has three main evaluation criteria (research quality, societal relevance, and viability) and four additional foci (open science, academic culture, PhD policy and training, and human resources policy).
As a midpoint between the research evaluations, there is the midterm. For this midtem (concerning 2021-2023), a self-evaluation report was composed and an evaluation committee visited us in November 2024. Now, this committee has delivered their assessment report.
Call for input
The BMS Faculty Board is currently crafting a formal response to the assessment committee. In addition to collecting input from department boards and the faculty council, we want to open the floor to multiple perspectives. We hope to come to a faculty response, not just a faculty board response. Therefore, when reading through the assessment report, feel free to keep these 3 questions in mind:
- From good to great: the report highlights several positive things about BMS, which one(s) do you see as something we need to nourish most and has the potential to go from good to great?
- An outside perspective: the committee mostly consisted of external members, which observation surprised you the most in this report?
- We can't do everything at once: the committee gives us numerous relevant recommendations, which 3 should BMS focus on first and why?
