School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

The Group shall:

• Provide cohesive and unified leadership to the School, developing and ensuring the delivery of the University’s, the College’s and the School’s strategic plans and ambitions
• Provide clarity across the School community regarding strategic priorities and direction; prepare and monitor the Annual Strategic Planning Report (SPR)
• Assure operational delivery of learning and teaching, research, clinical, innovation, and internationalisation activities, providing updates to MVLS CMG on financial, people and estates related issues
• Monitor all KPIs and targets set by MVLS CMG, including student recruitment, research, innovation, and internationalisation strategic goals
• Ensure that effective policies and procedures are in place in relation to accreditation requirements
• Ensure that effective policies and procedures are in place, consistent with College and University policies and procedures, for all aspects of the School’s business, including (but not limited to):
• Assure adherence to and communication of the Health and Safety (H&S) policy; review all H&S risks, threats, occurrences and provide appropriate mitigation
• Assure all data collation processes are completed in line with University processes, including (but not limited to) HESA, REF and ELIR
• Assure all regulatory policies are adhered to, including GDPR, equality, fraud and conflict of interest, escalating to MVLS CMG any breach of such policies
• Identify, assess and mitigate strategic risk at a School level, ensuring minimal risk exposure to the College and the University

The following details the delegated authority for the SBOHVM SEG and shows how it is placed in the overall University Scheme of Delegation with escalation to MVLS CMG:

This is an executive chaired Group with the following core membership:

• Christopher Loughrey, Head of School
• Roman Biek, Deputy Head of School & Director of Research
• Professor Jennifer Hammond, Deputy Head of School
• Mrs Catherine Stalin, Deputy Head of School & Head of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
• Professor Neil Evans, Director of Education (Veterinary)
• Dr Jan Lindstrom, Director of Education (Life Sciences)
• Professor Martin Llewellyn, Director of Innovation, Engagement & Enterprise
• Dr Ruedi Nager, PGT Convener
• Henry Watson, Finance Business Partner
• Sarah Chiodetto, Head of Professional Services
• Jennifer Crawford, Deputy Head of Professional Services
• Lubna Nasir, Director Equality and diversity
• Lynn Brown, Human Resources
• Ray Girotti, Director of Commercial Operations
• Dr Mark Dagleish, Head of Veterinary Pathology, Public Health & Disease Investigation
• Mr George King, Head of Farm Animal Clinical Sciences
• Professor Patrick Pollock, Head of Equine Clinical Sciences
• Dr Fiona Dowell, Head of the Veterinary Teaching Team
• Caroline Hutchinson - Clerk

The following will attend by invitation as required: Accreditation Champion, PGR Convener(s), and ECR representative.

Substitutions may be made with prior notice given to the clerk subject to approval by the Head of School.  There must be a minimum of 50% of its members in attendance for decisions or approvals. In the event of a consensus not being reached, the decision will be made by the Head of School.

Each Group member has a responsibility to:

• Provide scrutiny and challenge to all strategic documents, policies and papers
• Apply current thinking and subject matter expertise in relevant fields to SEG topics
• Foster a culture that promotes cooperation, compromise, collegiality and collective ownership of decisions
• Openly and constructively challenge where proposals do not meet key criteria for regulatory, business continuity or sustainability requirements
• Take ownership for specific risks and actions in the SEG Risk Register. All risks must have a group member as overall owner
• Embody the University’s values in activity and behaviour (click here for details)

The SBOHVM SEG will follow the UofG procedure for the management of any conflicts. The procedure defines declaration of conflicts as a standard agenda item at the start of the meeting, the maintenance of a register of conflicts, and a process for managing all conflicts which are declared.

Meetings will be held monthly. Weekly and extraordinary meetings may also be scheduled as required.

INPUTS

• University Strategy 2020-2025
• All thematic and enabling strategies
• College specific strategies and roadmaps
• School Financial Reports and Statements including SPR
• Minutes/reports of School Committees
• CMG update
• Agenda, action log and previous minutes
• Papers to be presented

OUTPUTS

• Action log
• Minutes (closed to SEG members only)