Joint Resource Allocation Advisory Board

Terms of Reference

A Joint Resource Allocation Advisory Board is tasked to make recommendation, to Council through PRAC, and to the Conference of Colleges on:

  1. The annual resource allocation exercise.
  2. Identification and proposed treatment of funding streams within the JRAM, including those from HEFCE.
  3. Assessment of the alignment of the model with academic strategy. Assessment of whether change in academic strategy and policy requires changes in the JRAM to support collegiate University objectives and if so the mechanisms which would enable these to be achieved.
  4. Proposals on how changes in external funding should be incorporated within the core mechanism transparently and on whether such changes then require an over-riding mechanism to align the JRAM with University academic strategy.
  5. Recommendations on related issues concerning the management of resources and the funding of activities across the collegiate University, as they arise in the course of the group’s work.

The Board should be primarily an expert body, which will make recommendations for consideration by the wider membership of PRAC and the Conference of Colleges. 

Membership is for three years in the first instance, renewable for one further term. The Chair is nominated by Council and Conference in rotation, each time for a two-year period.

Membership

NamePosition

Professor Roger Davies (Physics)

Chair (nominated by Conference)

Professor William James (PVC, Planning & Resources)

Ex officio

Professor Sally Mapstone (PVC, Education)

Nominated by Council

Professor Tim Jenkinson (Said Business School)

Appointed by PRAC/Education Committee

Professor Christopher Wickham (History)

Appointed by PRAC/Education Committee

Professor Richard Carwardine (President, Corpus Christi College)

Representing the Chairman of Conference

Dr Mark Pobjoy (Senior Tutor, Magdalen College)

Nominated by Conference

Ms Sally Layburn (Finance Bursar, St John's College)

Nominated by Conference

Mr Chris Wigg (Treasurer, St Anne's College)

Nominated by Conference

plus the Junior Proctor

Officers in Attendance

  • Mr Michael Sibly, Deputy Registrar
  • Ms Helen Watson, Director of Planning & Resource Allocation
  • Mr Stephen Purbrick, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis
  • Ms Nancy Braithwaite, Head of Conference Secretariat 
  • Ms Catherine Whalley, Senior Assistant Registrar, PRAS (Secretary to JRAAB) 
  • Dr Jo Gay, Planning Officer, PRAS (Assistant Secretary to JRAAB)

Meeting Dates

DateTime
3 October 2011 2 - 4pm
10 November 2011 2 - 4pm
31 January 2012 1 - 2.30pm
22 March 2012 2 - 3.30pm
2 April 2012 11am - 1pm
22 June 2012 10am - 12noon