Japan Research Strategy Seminar Date： Place： Co‐hosted by： Supported by: Audience： Registration site: June 15, 2015 (Monday) 13:00‐18:00 Conference M+ (near Tokyo station), http://www.marunouchi‐hc.jp/emplus/access.html Times Higher Education (THE) & Elsevier Japan The British Council Japan University, Government organization, Research institutes http://www.elsevier.com/jp/events/ric‐2015 Preliminary Agenda, as of May 18, 2015 13:00‐13:05 Opening remarks Research funding reform to improve Japanese universities international competitiveness 13:05‐13:20 Mrs. Aya Maesawa, Director, Office for Planning, Scientific Research Aid Division, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) 13:20‐13:50 13:50‐14:20 World university rankings – concepts and methods Mr. Phil Baty, Editor, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UK Enhancing research competitiveness through establishing strategic international partnerships Dr. David Langley, Professor of Practice in Research Management and Administration Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University; Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Welsh Government; Director of Research and Enterprise Development (RED), University of Bristol Strategic approaches for top‐global research and education 14:20‐14:50 ‐ Current status and issues of Kyushu University ‐ Prof. Masato Wakayama, Vice President for Research, Kyushu University, JP 14:50‐15:05 Coffee break Strategies for enhancing the international competitiveness in research 15:05‐15:35 ‐ A challenge of Okayama University ‐ Prof. Shinichi Yamamoto, Vice President for Research, Okayama University, JP 15:35‐16:05 16:05‐16:35 Juntendo university’s vision ‐ driving forward university’s international research Prof. Eiki Kominami, President, Juntendo University, JP Strategic plan toward centennial SIT Prof. Masato Murakami, President, Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP 16:35‐16:50 Coffee break 16:50‐17:05 Introducing Elsevier Research Intelligence Solutions 17:05‐17:55 Panel discussion – Moderated by Anders Karlsson, VP Global Academic Relations, Elsevier 17:55‐18:00 Closing remarks 18:00‐19:30 Reception No participation fee, online registration required, simultaneous interpretation provided* Supported by The British Council Japan 【International Guest Speakers】 Phil Baty Editor, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UK Phil Baty is editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Phil has been with the magazine since 1996, as reporter, news editor and deputy editor. He received the Ted Wragg Award for Sustained Contribution to Education Journalism in 2011, part of the Education Journalist of the Year Awards and was named among the top 15 "most influential in education" by The Australian newspaper in 2012. Phil is a regular speaker at international conferences and contributes regularly on global higher education for leading newspapers and broadcasters. He is the chair of the THE World Academic Summit series and his publications include chapters for Blue Skies: new thinking about the future of higher education (Pearson) and for Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education (UNESCO). Phil can be found on Twitter at @Phil_Baty. David Langley Professor of Practice in Research Management and Administration Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University; Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Welsh Government; Director of Research and Enterprise Development (RED), University of Bristol David was appointed as Professor of Practice in Research Management and Administration (URA) at Cardiff University on 1st August 2014, where his primary role is to develop the first Executive Master's programme in URA in the UK. Alongside this he is Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the Welsh Government, with specific responsibility for research programmes, external relationships and collaboration. He has been Director of Research and Enterprise Development (RED) at the University of Bristol for the last 8 years, and spent 5 years working at Imperial College London as Director of Research Services. Before this he held posts at the Medical Research Council, NHS and in an engineering SME. He has a PhD in neuropharmacology and undertook post‐doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, USA, as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. David has been heavily involved in supporting the strategic relationship between Bristol University and Kyoto University, and has visited Japan on a number of occasions, including being a keynote speaker at a national URA symposium in Kyoto in 2013 and Hokkaido in 2014. He is a Special Adviser to the British Council in Japan for the promotion of Japan: UK research and university collaboration. He was the first recipient of the ARMA (UK) Carter Award for Excellence in URA in 2014, and leads on their on Japan: UK relationship development which looks to establish joint activities in URA professionalization. Supported by The British Council Japan 【Venue】【How to apply】 Please register to: http://www.elsevier.com/jp/events/ric‐2015 【Contact person】 Aya Komamura (Mrs.), Research Solutions Marketing Manager, Elsevier Japan Tel: 03‐5561‐5034 ‐ Email: [email protected] Supported by The British Council Japan