Surrey launches joint research centre with SII-DUFE

Following a trip in autumn 2023 by other members of FASS, Professor Hadfield’s visit had a number of key components: intensive meetings on governance structures and envisaged changes with SII and DUFE members of staff, increasing her familiarity with the pedagogic, administrative, pastoral and employability structures of SII-DUFE, and getting acquainted with students across the three UG pathways of International Business Management, Accounting and Finance and International Tourism Management. 

Amelia was also present at a key development of SII-DUFE, namely the unveiling of the new Joint Research Centre, a forum designed to promote both the visibility and impact of research currently undertaken by SII-DUFE colleagues in areas broadly correspondent with – but not limited to – SII-DUFE’s taught pathways. The JRC now enables SII-DUFE staff to work collegially to develop research prowess in three research communities: within SII itself, within the wider SII-DUFE circle, as well as with their counterparts in FASS’s Surrey Business School and the School of Tourism and Hospitality on individual and collaborative research projects, co-publications, conference outputs, and external funding opportunities. In this way, the JRC widens the prospective outputs of SII-DUFE from solely teaching-based to research at a core form of teaching, training and outputs, in ways that link its staff (and prospective PGR cohorts) to new research communities, and enhance opportunities for producing relevant research that contributes more visibly and viably to the University of Surrey as a whole.