Our governance structure supports all operational, research and educational activities within the Faculty.
We introduced a new governance structure in 2021 with the aim of ensuring more inclusive decision-making at senior management level, ensuring EDI objectives are embedded in all operational and strategic activity across the Faculty.
The new governance structure facilitates decision-making around the core areas of business and strategic priorities, ensuring joined-up working and effective risk management.
Opportunities for leadership and succession at senior management level as well as a streamlined appointments and approvals process ensure that equity is embedded into these processes.
Click on the sections below to find out about the key areas of our FMD governance structure, including contact details for each committee.
FMD Executive Board
Objective: To provide senior leadership in the execution of the Faculty’s strategy whilst responding to strategic or policy developments within the broader organisation and assessing their impact on the Faculty’s objectives. This Board oversees the day-to-day delivery of the Faculty’s activities, ensuring collective oversight of the strategy and emerging opportunities. It is intended that actions from this board, where relevant, will proceed to the Operations Board for implementation. Every quarter, this Board will host a Strategic Review Meeting to include accountable leads (see below), to review performance against KPIs and targets.
Board Membership: VP Health (Chair), Deputy VP Health, Institute Directors, Dean for Education, Dean for Digital Education, Dean for Research, Director of Clinical Research, Dean for Global Engagement, Academic Lead for EDI, FMD Faculty Director of Operations, Senior Finance Partner, FMD Head of Strategic Development
Accountable to the Board: Academic Theme Leads, Deputy Academic Leads for EDI and Chairs of Athena Swan, Academic Leads for Commercial Partnerships and Innovation, Deputy Deans of Education, Deputy Deans of Research
Meeting Frequency: Bi-weekly (alternates with FMD Operations Board)
Reports into: QM Senior Executive Team
Board Management: Executive Officer (Health)/Faculty Administration Officer - Elizabeth Micakovic
TOR: SMD Faculty Executive Board TOR [DOC 63KB]
EDI representative: Professor Chloe Orkin; Dr Aylin Baysan; Dr Vanessa Apea - v.apea@qmul.ac.uk
FMD Strategic Recruitment Board
Objective: To oversee the development of the Faculty’s recruitment strategy, ensuring that it is delivered to plan in the context of the Research and Education Strategy and related priorities, and that workforce and capacity building targets are achieved on an annual basis. To oversee the recruitment of senior appointments and the allocation of strategic posts as assessed against Faculty priorities for capacity building. To review business cases for tenure for early career researchers, ensuring a fair and consistent approach to the appointment of early career researchers and educators as set out in the a revised and updated SMD Academic Performance Standards. To have oversight of the Faculty’s annual promotions, professorial review, and ACCEA rounds, ensuring that consistent and equitable processes are followed.
Board Membership: VP Health (Chair), Deputy VP Health, Dean for Research, Dean for Education, Academic Lead for EDI, Director of Clinical Research, Dean for Digital Education, Institute Directors, FMD Faculty Director of Operations, Senior Finance Partner, Strategic HR Partner, FMD Head of Strategic Development.
Frequency: Monthly
Reports into: FMD Executive Board
Board Management: Executive Officer (Health) - Elizabeth Micakovic
TOR: SMD Recruitment Strategy Board TOR [DOC 64KB]
EDI representative: Elizabeth Micakovic
FMD Organisational Development Group
Objective: To support capacity building and succession planning within the Faculty through oversight of targeted interventions, including promotions and CEA workshops, tailored leadership planning in partnership with the NHS (clinical leadership). This group will also oversee strategies for clinical academic workforce capacity building. To have oversight of the Faculty’s and institute’s Staff Survey Action plans, ensuring a coherent and coordinated response, with responsibility for targeted action on promoting a health workplace culture within the Faculty and across organisations.
Board Membership: Deputy VP Health (Chair), Academic Lead for EDI, Deputy Institute Directors, FMD Strategic HR Partner, QM Organisational Development representative, QM Academy representative, Clinical Director of Research, FMD Head of Strategic Development, FMD EDI Officer, BHT workforce development representative.
Frequency: every 3 months
Reports into: FMD Strategic Recruitment Board
Board Management: Athena Swan Co-Ordinator - Laura Simpson l.simpson@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: SMD Organisational Development Group Terms of Reference [DOC 63KB]
EDI representative: Laura Simpson l.simpson@qmul.ac.uk
Honorary Appointments Committee
Objective: To review applications and renewals for honorary Reader and Professorial appointments, ensuring that applications are in line with the criteria for such appointments. To ensure that all appointments comply with the Faculty’s equality and diversity strategy and objectives.
Board Membership: Deputy VP Health (Chair), Academic/Deputy Academic Lead for EDI, Dean for Education, Dean for Research, Institute Director (rotational), FMD Strategic HR Partner, Operations and Projects Manager.
Frequency: Every 3 months
Board Management: Operations And Projects Manager - Rachel Day r.day@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: FMD Faculty Honorary Appointments Committee TOR [DOC 73KB]
EDI representative: Dr Vanessa Apea v.apea@qmul.ac.uk
FMD Global Engagement and Partnerships Committee
Reports into: FMD Executive Board, FMD Education Strategy Board, FMD Research Strategy Board
Risk Ownership: 1.01 Greater Student Satisfaction; 2.01 Improving Staff Engagement; 4.01 Remove student attainment gap; 6.01 Recruitment that enables us to achieve the 2030 Strategy Objectives; 7.01 Improved student progression; 8.01 Improved career outcomes for graduates; 9.01 Increase research volume; 10.01 Maintain/Increase Research Quality; 12.01 Improved cash generation to enable investment; 13.01 Improved Reputation.
Board Management: Strategy Support Officer (Education and Global Engagement) - Philip Gill p.gill@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: FMD Global Engagement and Partnerships Committee ToR [DOC 69KB]
Malta Strategy Board
Objective: To develop and oversee the implementation of QM’s strategy for the Malta campus, encompassing educational and research activity across the breadth of QM disciplines. This board will identify the strategic priorities for portfolio development on the campus, including executive education, commercial income generation, whilst ensuring that the education and research offer capitalises on its geopolitical position.
Board Membership: VP Health, Dean for Education, Deputy Dean for Education (Malta MBBS), All Faculty Deans for Global Engagement, Director of Operations (Malta), FMD Head of Strategic Development, Malta HR Partner, GPI Advisory Board representation?
Frequency: Every 2 months
Reporting lines: Malta Partnerships Board; Malta Operations Group
Board Management: Director of Operations (Malta)
TOR:
EDI representative: Despina Moissidou - d.moissidou@qmul.ac.uk
FMD Recruitment Panel
Objective: To review Faculty business cases for recruitment and to authorise appointments, ensuring that all appointments are consistent with strategic priorities of the Faculty and University. To ensure that all appointments comply with the Faculty’s equality and diversity strategy and objectives, and that an equitable process for appointments is adhered to.
Board Membership: VP Health (Chair), Deputy VP Health, Dean for Education, Dean for Digital Education, Dean for Research, FMD Faculty Director of Operations, FMD Senior Finance Partner, FMD Strategic HR Partner, FMD Head of Strategic Development.
Frequency: Weekly
Board Management: Faculty Administration Officer (Operations)
Research Strategy Board
Objective: To develop, monitor and implement and annually review the Faculty’s research strategy, overseeing the delivery of key actions and projects as set out in the Faculty Research Strategy and enabling plan. To routinely monitor faculty performance on spend and awards, bids, overhead recovery, and commercial research income. To advise the Dean and Executive on the Faculty’s current research priorities and emerging opportunities including large cross-faculty/multiorganizational bids and equipment bids; to advise on the most appropriate research portfolio for Faculty with respect to external and internal priorities; and capacity building for the future. To develop and implement policies in support of research activity, and to ensure that the Faculty has a supportive and inclusive research culture.
Board Membership: Dean for Research (Chair) (1), Deputy Deans for Research (3), Institute Directors of Research (6), Clinical Research Director (1), Academic Academic Lead for EDI (1), Dean for Global Engagement (1), SMD Head of Strategic Development (1), SMD Strategy Support Officer (Researcher Development) (1), Research Deanery Manager (1).
Attendance for Reporting: Academic Leads for Research Themes, Academic Leads for Commercial Partnerships and Innovation, Academic Leads for Cross-Cutting Themes
Board Management: Research Deanery Manager - Nasema Uddin nasema.uddin@qmul.ac.uk
EDI representative:
Graduate Studies Committee
TOR: SMD Graduate Studies Committee -Terms of Reference document [DOC 43KB]
Board Management: Strategy Support Officer (Researcher Development)
Research Culture and Environment Committee
Objective: To provide strategic oversight of Faculty actions relating to research culture and environment, overseeing their implementation and reporting on progress. ensuring that researchers have equitable access to training and support specific to their needs and requirements. To support institutional frameworks for research environment and culture activity, providing an evidence base for funding environment statements and regulatory submissions.
Board Membership: Deputy Dean for Research Integrity and Deputy Dean for Research Impact (Co-Chairs), Deputy Dean for Research (PGR), (Deputy) Academic Lead for EDI, Institute Directors of Research (or Research Culture Leads), institute research managers, Research Deanery Manager, FMD Strategy Support Officer for Researcher Development, Doctoral College representation, Barts Academy Lead.
Reports into: Research Strategy Board
TOR: FMD Research Culture and Environment Committee _Terms of Reference [DOC 152KB]
Commercial Partnerships and Innovation Committee
Objective: To oversee the development and implementation of the Faculty’s commercial and innovation strategy with a view to supporting the Faculty in achieving its commercial targets. To ensure appropriate support is in place to facilitate commercialisation of research.
Board Membership: Academic Leads for Commercial Partnerships and Innovation (Co-Chairs), Institute Directors of Research, institute research managers, BD Team representation, QMI representation, JRMO representation, Research Deanery Manager.
Research Theme Working Groups
Objective: To oversee the development and implementation of the Faculty’s multidisciplinary research themes, with responsibility for the strategic planning for the growth of these areas.
Board Membership: Academic Leads for Research themes, cross-faculty research group members, research theme project managers, FMD Strategy Support Officer (researcher development), FMD Fundraising Manager.
Frequency: TBC
Board Management: Research Theme Project Managers
Joint Clinical Research Board
Reports into: SMD Research Strategy Board/VPRAG
Education Strategy Board
Objective: To develop, monitor and implement and annually review the Faculty’s overall education strategy, overseeing the delivery of key actions and projects as set out in the Faculty Education Strategy and enabling plan. To provide a holistic and coordinated overview of the multiple education priorities, including campus based undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, digital and online education, apprenticeships, CPD and Executive Education. To continuously monitor the Faculty’s education strategy and to inform the annual priorities, with responsibility for periodically reviewing the education portfolio. To ensure that the education within the Faculty is high quality against core metrics (NSS, PTES, UKES) and that action plans are implemented where required. Programme level committees will report into this Board.
Board Membership: Dean for Education (Chair), Dean for Digital Education, Deputy Deans for Education, Institute Directors of Education, Academic Lead for EDI, Dean for Global Engagement, Strategy Support Officer (Education and Global Engagement), FMD Head of Strategic Development, FMD Marketing Manager
Board Management: Strategy Support Officer (Education and Global Engagement) - Phil Gill p.gill@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: FMD Education Strategy Board ToR [DOC 69KB]
Undergraduate and Apprenticeships Committee
Objective: To oversee the implementation of the Faculty’s strategy and actions with respect to undergraduate education and apprenticeship development. To advise the Faculty Education Strategy Board on opportunities for expansion and portfolio review within these areas. To monitor and manage risk with respect to UG and apprenticeship recruitment, in particular with respect to BDS, MBBS, and clearing recruitment.
Board Membership: Deputy Dean for Education (Undergraduate) (Chair), Faculty Director of Operations, Institute Directors of Education, institute education managers, FMD apprenticeships manager, QM Apprenticeships lead, FMD EDI representative, NHS representation
Reports into: FMD Education Strategy Board
Board Management: Degree Apprenticeships Manager (IHSE)
Postgraduate Education Committee
Objective: To oversee the implementation of the Faculty’s strategy with respect to postgraduate education, and to advise the Faculty Education Strategy Board on opportunities for expansion and portfolio within this areas. To ensure alignment with education priorities across the breadth of the Faculty’s portfolio, including digital education, undergraduate provision, executive education, and postgraduate research opportunities.
Board Membership: Deputy Dean for Education (PGT) (Chair), Dean for Digital Education, Deputy Dean for CPD, institute education managers, institute representatives for PGT, FMD EDI representative, NHS representation
Board Management: Postgraduate Education Manager
Digital Education Committee
Objective: To oversee the implementation of the Faculty’s strategy with respect to digital education, working in tandem with the central digital education team to identify and translate opportunities as they emerge. To provide strategic and operational oversight of the Faculty’s Digital Academy, and to support expansion of the portfolio through resource and infrastructure planning.
Board Membership: Dean for Digital Education (Chair), Director of QM Online, Digital Academy Manager, Deputy Dean for Education (PGT), Deputy Dean for Education (Executive Education), Institute Digital Education Leads, Institute Education Managers, FMD EDI representative
Board Management: Digital Academy Manager
Executive Education Committee
Objective: To oversee the implementation of the Faculty’s strategy with respect to Executive Education and CPD, working alongside Business Development and other internal QM stakeholders to proactively develop new programmes and respond to opportunities as they arise. To work alongside the local NHS Trust to support the sector training requirements.
Board Membership: Deputy Dean for Executive Education (Chair), Deputy VP Health, Dean for Digital Education, NHS Trust Partners Representation, Institute Executive Education leads, Institute Education Managers, Business Development Representation, FMD EDI representative
Transnational Education Committee
Objective: To oversee the implementation of the Faculty’s international strategy as it relates to education, with responsibility for the development of new TNE programme activity as guided by the QM Global Engagement Board and the FMD Global Engagement and Partnerships Committee.
Board Membership: Dean for Global Engagement, Institute Global Engagement Academic Leads, Education Managers, FMD Strategy Delivery Officer (Education/International), FMD EDI representation, Global Engagement Office representation, Deputy Dean for Education (Malta).
Reports into: FMD Education Strategy Board; FMD Global Engagement and Partnerships Committee
FMD EDI Strategy Board
Objective: To develop and implement the Faculty’s EDI strategy, ensuring alignment with the Faculty’s and Organisation’s targets in this area. To drive forward initiatives to prompt greater diversity in the staff and student bodies, and to ensure that the EDI agenda is embedded across the breadth of the Faculty’s strategic areas by providing expertise and representation on the relevant Faculty boards.
Board Membership: Academic Lead for EDI (Chair), Deputy Academic Leads for EDI, EDI Officers, Institute EDI Leads, Specialty Representatives, FMD Head of Strategic Development, and others as required.
Reports into: FMD Executive Board; EDISG
Board Management: EDI Manager Laura Simpson l.simpson@qmul.ac.uk
FMD Athena Swan Committees (Medicine and Dentistry)
Objective: To ensure that the Faculty retains its Athena Swan Silver Charter marks through delivery on the Athena Swan Action plans and related initiatives as set out in the combined EDI strategy document. To oversee and take ownership of the Faculty’s submissions for Medicine and Dentistry.
Board Membership: Athena Swan Chairs, Institute Athena Swan Representatives, Athena Swan Co-Ordinator.
Frequency: Every two months
Reports into: FMD EDI Strategy Board
Board Management: Athena Swan Co-ordinator - Laura Simpson l.simpson@qmul.ac.uk
Medicine TOR: SMD Athena SWAN SAT ToR [PDF 167KB]
Dentistry TOR: IOD Athena SWAN ToR [DOC 112KB]
FMD Anti-Racism Steering Committee
Reports into: FMD EDI Strategy Board; Clinical Programmes Committee
Members:
Dr Riya George – Co-Chair of EDI FMD Committee
Dr Nimesh Patel – Head of Assessment
Dr Wendy Lowe – Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Dr Lucy Carter – Physician Associate Lecturer
Dr Deepa Shah – Clinical Lecturer/ Co-lead on Yr 3 GP teaching, CBME
Dr Devina Raval – Senior Lecturer/Lead in Clinical Skills (London)
Professor Mangala Patel – Professor of Bio Dental Materials
Dr Shahrar Ali – IHSE EDI Lead
Supporting documents:
Barts and The London BMA Racial Harassment Charter [PDF 148KB]
Anti-Racism Committee Governance Structure [PDF 907KB]
FMD Race Equality Working Group
Objective: To deliver on the Faculty’s targets, objectives and responsibilities with respect to race equality across all areas of the Faculty’s business. To implement and monitor the progress of those actions set out in the Faculty’s EDI Action Plan, and to progress the agenda on race equality, make progress in addressing relevant issues relating to staff and students. To support the institutional application for the Race Equality Charter Mark, ensuring alignment between institutional and faculty objectives.
Board Membership: Deputy Academic Lead for EDI (Chair), Institute academic and PS leads, Anti-Racism Steering Committee leads, EDI Officers.
Board Management:
Institute executive boards
Objective: To provide senior leadership to the day-to-day operational management of the Faculty, taking forward actions arising from the SMD Executive Board. This board is responsible for ensuring that the Faculty’s operational framework is aligned to and informed by the Faculty strategy across the domains of estates and infrastructure, biofacilities, recruitment, and core business processes, including admissions. This Board is responsible for routinely managing operational risk as it emerges or anticipated risk. To this end, this Board ensures that the Faculty risk register is maintained, adjusted and reviewed at regular intervals throughout the academic year.
Board Membership: Deputy VP Health (Chair), FMD Faculty Director of Operations, Institute Managers, Senior Finance Partner, Strategic HR Partner, Operations and Projects Manager, FMD Head of Strategic Development, Academic Lead for EDI, and other QM/FMD representation as required.
Meeting frequency: Bi-weekly (alternates with FMD Executive Board)
Board Management: Operations and Projects Manager/Faculty Administration Officer (operations) - Rachel Day r.day@qmul.ac.uk and Pauline Ellis-Sackey p.ellis-sackey@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: SMD Faculty Operations Board TOR [DOC 67KB]
EDI Representative: Dr Elizabeth Micakovic and Dr Natalie McCloskey
Objective: To oversee the breadth of estates and capital projects in progress across the Faculty, ensuring that these are delivered to plan and to target with dependencies and risks are identified across the piece. To monitor and manage the overall risk associated with these projects and their delivery. To advise the Operations and Executive Board on actions required to support the delivery of the Faculty’s strategy with respect to estates planning.
Board Membership: Faculty Director of Operations (Chair), Deputy Dean for Education, Deputy Dean for Research, FMD EDI representation, Operations and Projects Manager, FMD Space Manager, Institute Managers, FMD Estates Business Partner, FMD IT Business Partner, Capital Project Leads
Reports into: FMD Operations Board
Board Management: FMD Space Manager - Tracey Williams t.m.williams@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: SMD Estates and Capital Projects Group TOR [DOC 71KB]
EDI Representative: Dr Natalie McCloskey
Objective: To develop and implement the Faculty’s reputation and external communications strategy, delivering on actions and initiatives designed to enhance the reputation of the FMD, to promote its research and education across stakeholders, to support partnership development, and to improve the Faculty’s position in international and national rankings.
Board Membership: FMD Dean for Global Engagement (Chair), Deputy Academic Lead for EDI, FMD Head of Strategic Development, Faculty Communications Manager, International Communications Manager, Operations and Projects Manager, FMD Faculty Administration Officer, FMD Web Editor, Institute Communication Leads, Path Museum representative, CoC representative, Alumni and Development representation, CPE representation, BD representation, FMD Faculty Marketing Manager, Research Deanery Manager, FMD Strategy Support Officer for Education and Global Engagement
Board Management: Administration Officer (Communications) - Michal Bilewicz m.bilewicz@qmul.ac.uk
TOR: FMD Reputation and External Engagement Group - Terms of Reference [DOC 70KB]
EDI representative: Professor Chloe Orkin; Dr Vanessa Apea - v.apea@qmul.ac.uk
Objective: To provide operational oversight over the delivery of clinical programmes in partnership with the Trust, including: the provision of clinical placements across the breadth of FMD’s clinical education portfolio, including BDS, MBBS/GEP, Physician Associates, and postgraduate clinical programmes; oversight of admissions processes and management of risk in relation to capped programmes; ensuring infrastructural requirements are met in the delivery of such programmes; to oversee and report on the Faculty’s objectives and targets with respect to widening participation for clinical programmes; to review and monitor occupational health services and to raise any risks. Programme level committees will feed into this Board and the FMD Education Strategy Board.
Board Membership: Dean for Education and Dean for Dentistry (Co-Chairs), Deputy Deans for Education, Programme Leads, Deputy Academic Lead for EDI, Institute Managers, Placement Co-ordinators, FMD Admissions Leads, QM Admissions representation, Widening Participation Leads, NHS representation
Reports into: FMD Operations Board; FMD Education Strategy Board;
Board Management: IHSE administration
Objective: To have strategic oversight of the clinical and bioresource infrastructure, ensuring that the Faculty’s facilities are aligned with the research resourcing to support the delivery of the Research strategy. To respond to opportunities for funding, internally and externally, in support of the development of these facilities. To oversee the development and implementation of the commercialisation strategy for the Faculty’s research facilities. To ensure that there is alignment across the breadth of the clinical infrastructure core facilities, including CTUs, BSU, tissue facilities, and the joint CRF, and that governance and risk processes are reviewed.
Board Membership: Director of Clinical Research (Chair), Deputy VP Health, Dean for Research, Academic Leads for Commercial Partnerships and Innovation, Deputy Academic Lead for EDI, Core Facility Leads, Faculty Director of Operations, Operations and Projects Manager, Business Development Partner, JRMO representation, NHS representation
Reports into: FMD Operations Board; FMD Research Strategy Board
Board Management: JRMO Administration
This committee is unchanged with the exception of the reporting line and Chair designation.
Reports into: Clinical Research and Infrastructure Group
Risk Ownership: 17.01 Compliance: Information Compliance
Objective: To deliver on the operational delivery of the Malta Campus Strategy as it relates to the medical school and the wider cross-faculty priorities of the University. To monitor and oversee the Strategic Operational Plan for the campus, ensuring that that the Campus’s risk register is routinely reviewed with responsibility for responding to known and emerging risks as they relate to the operational performance of the Campus, its programmes, and its major strategic projects.
Board Membership: Director of Operations (Malta), HR Partner (Malta), Estates and IT project partners, Malta Business Partner, Malta MBBS Year Leads, Malta EDI lead?.
Reports into: FMD Operations Board; Malta Strategy Board
Board Management: Malta Administration
Risk Ownership: 16.01 Compliance: Health and Safety
Board Management: H&S Administration