CRANFIELD DEFENCE AND SECURITY

ISSUE 2.

R ES EA RC H
MARCH 2013

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WELCOME
INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Dear Colleague
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MAJOR CHANGES TO ACADEMIC PUBLISHING

SUCCESSFUL CONTRACTS THIS MONTH RESEARCH FORUM

Welcome to the second Research Newsletter. Thanks to you all for your feedback on the first one and thanks to all the contributors. If you would like to see the Newsletter cover something that it doesnt please let me know. Thanks Mark Richardson Director of Research
British scientific research and academic papers. Currently the main method for making research papers accessible is to publish them in subscription journals, which effectively restricts their availability, and then archive them in external facing institutional repositories, such as CERES, once any embargo period expires. Going forward, publishers will charge authors an article processing charge, or APC, via the organisation funding the research work or the institution of which the author of the research paper is a member. In return the publisher will make their papers freely available on the Internet. Research councils require all universities to have policies and procedures for managing APCs in place by April 2013, and will be providing universities with a block grant to help fund these payments. A proposal for managing access to these funds at Cranfield is currently being drafted by the Library and Information Service, for consultation with all our Schools. Once agreed, this will be published on the intranet and a communication sent out to staff. Although it is likely that many journals will provide open access publishing options that comply with the Research Councils new policy, it is advisable to check what is available before you submit an article for publishing. Please also remember to submit your pre-publication, post-refereed version to the Universitys repository. It is expected that both publishing approaches will co-exist for a number of years and libraries, including ours, will continue to subscribe to journals via publishing deals.

LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR PHD STUDENTS A RESEARCH OVERVIEW

PERMISSION TO PUBLISH CENTRE FOR DEFENCE ENTERPRISE

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Major changes to academic publishing

From the 1 April 2013 staff who author articles based on work funded by research council grants will have to comply with a new policy on open access. This will see publicly funded scientific research made available to a much wider audience to read for free, in a bid to give universities, businesses and the public better access to

DID YOU KNOW? The DCC (Defence Capability Centre) are very happy for us to
display our research on the floor plate. If you have any ideas please let me know.

Maritime Collaboration Enterprise (MarCE). Alex Motta is prepar-

ing the Request For Information (RFI) response in the context of CDS so we can be included as supplier in the Maritime Collaboration Enterprise (Paul Osborne is leading in Cranfield). It is a 32 Million DSTL funded (BAe Systems managed) enterprise seeking answers in challenging problems in the Maritime environment (surface and submarine). Part of the problem is the replacement of the Astute class submarines predicted to happen in the mid-2030s.

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SUCCESSFUL CONTRACTS WON THIS MONTH

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HFI DTC Martime Synthetic Training Phase 2 AAW TCTNA Art Copyright Grant Ethiopia Policing Project - LOT D & E Partners EOI TAF 07/12 GUI Development & Technical Support Contract (WDALab) Full Scale Flexible Test: Phase 1 Test Loop Specification DHCSTC 2.014 Tri Service Training & Education Tranche 4 - Task 2 V-Feather Project CDE Training & Eval: Narrative Benefits For Training- Delivery Options Eval CDE Call: Training And Evaluation - Knowledge Capture And Re-Use Support To Defence Virtual Simulation (DVS) Concept Phase VINDSKIP Aerodynamic Development Extension: Comparing DNAN With TNT In A Melt Cast Composition TIN 3.045 Maintainer Skill Fade Carry Out Ballistic Tests For Impact Analysis Extension: Facilitation Of Courses For Bomdardier Transport TT Trial Prowler 2 Safety And Security SME Support To Behavioural Influence Research Project Land Vehicle Efficency Model Governance & Transparency Fund - Amendment Analysis Of Seaskua Warhead Booster & Donar Pellet Housing Of SAU Extension: Xl53e1 Failure Mode Assessment Tranche Two Part 1 COTEC - Half Scale Momentum Transfer Trial

Organisation
BAE Systems Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti Atos Consulting Limited MOD Xodus Group Ltd BAE Systems Cranfield University - Cranfield Centre for Defence Enterprise Centre for Defence Enterprise MOD Lade AS Chemring Nobel AS BAE Systems Imperial College London Bombardier Transport BAE Systems I to I Research Systems Engineering & Assessment (SEA) Department for International Development (DFID) BAE Systems BAE Systems DSTL - Porton Down

Contract Supervisor
Searle, J R (Jonathan) Shortland, A (Andrew) Fitz-Gerald, A (Ann) Finnis, MV (Mark) Goyder, HGD (Hugh) Cahillane, M (Marie) Purdy, D (David) Smith, JD (Jeremy) Lewis, M (Mark) Searle, J R (Jonathan) Knowles, K (Kevin) Akhavan, J (Jackie) Cahillane, M (Marie) Horsfall, I (Ian) Hockley, C (Chris) Lewis, M (Mark) Henderson, S (Simon) Hameed, A (Amer) Wilkinson, E (Edith) Agha, A.N (Anjum) Gill, P (Philip) Palmer, E (Eric)

RESEARCH FORUM
We held an inaugural meeting of what will be the Research Forum on the 10th March 2013. The idea of this initial meeting was to see if we could improve our current inputs to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). For the future, the Forum will try to improve our performance in the next REF exercise and will look at how we can target resource to support key areas of research and deliver increased research output. Those present at the inaugural meeting were: Keith Rogers, Peter Zioupos, Kevin Knowles, Matt Qvortrup, Nabil Aouf and Mark Richardson.

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LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR PHD STUDENTS AND SUPERVISORS

Literature Review workshops Barrington Library staff have recently delivered a Literature Review Workshop, along with Debra Carr, to PhD students. The materials are available on the VLE for your perusal. If you were unable to attend but would like to discuss the session with an Information Specialist, please contact the Barrington Library via the Ask a Librarian Service at: http://barrington.cranfield.ac.uk/ask_librarian VLE Research Support page We have created new Barrington Library Research Support Page on the VLE, focussing on supporting information needs of PhD students it should also be of use to PhD supervisors. You will also find a quick poll to complete Managing your Research which looks at your use of reference management software. There are only five questions and results are kept anonymous. Your feedback will increase our knowledge of how you like to work and how we can best support that. You can find the new page in the Resource Collaboration folder under Research. We would like to hear if you have suggestions on how the page can be improved or any additional information that you would find useful.

A Research Overview by Dr Matt Qvortrup

There are several initiatives to boost research and to utilize our Workshops: Aligned to the master-classes, I am organising workexisting if not always recognised expertise within the social shops for colleagues on how to get published. The idea is that we sciences. collectively work on a piece of research, which we aim to get published in a top-journal. Interested colleagues should contact me Overall we have internationally recognised expertise in building via email (m.qvortrup@cranfield.ac.uk). peace or post-conflict management. This expertise is spread across several disciplines e.g Tom O Brien and I have expertise in Journal and Publications: In addition to the ongoing efforts to get comparative politics, and Brian Watters, Mike Dunn and Roger published, we are also working on a proposal to establish a scholDarby have expertise in management and leadership research. arly journal in collaboration with the international publisher Taylor This note provides an overview of the initiatives which I have initiat- and Francis. T&F are willing to invest in the region of 70K in the ed with colleagues across the School and the Campus: project. It is possible that existing in-house publications could be incorporated into the new journal. This is, needless to say, a mat1st Research Seminar: On February the 26th the first Research ter to be discussed. Again, interested parties should contact the Seminar was held with papers on issues ranging from manage- undersigned. ment, gun crime, international law and political sociology presented by, respectively Edith Wilkinson, Roger Darby, David Turns, Tom Symposia: Given our expertise there is scope for more symposia. I OBrien ,Mike Dunn and myself. am currently working on a conference on political institutions and society in India for would-be investors in that country. Similar con2nd Research Seminar. A second research seminar is being ferences in other emerging markets, e.g. Nigeria, Indonesia and planned for April (We are still to find a convenient date. Presenters Brazil are being considered will include Peter Carrick-Adams, Brian Watters and the undersigned will be presenting papers on issues ranging from leader- Lastly on a personal note, I am proud to inform you all that I have ship issues in the armed forces to constitution drafting in the Mid- been awarded the PSA (Political Studies Association) Prize for best dle East. Others will be added to the list paper published in British Journal of Politics and International Relations in 2012, for my article Terrorism and Political Science. Master Classes. As a spin-off from the Research Seminars we are planning two master classes, one in qualitative methods to be run by Mike Dunn and one on How to lie with Statistics: The Uses and Abuses of Quantitative Research Methods run by myself

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PERMISSION TO PUBLISH HAS BEEN GRANTED TO THE FOLLOWING

Submitted to

Dept

Authors
Saurav Talukdar, Muhammad Adeel Awan (PhD student Shrivenham) Anthony Tremlett (PhD student at Cranfield, Beds). Venkat Sastry, David Purdy

Paper Title
Preview based Vehicle Steering Control using Neural Networks

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G J Appleby-Thomas, P J Hazell and D C Wood Poster: On the ballistic response of comminuted ceramics Carmine Clemente, Alessio Balleri, Karl Wood- Developments in Target Micro-Doppler Signatures Analysis: Radar bridge and John J. Soraghan Imaging, Ultrasound and Through-the-Wall Radar Brendon Aylott and Kevin Burgess Badis DJAMAA, Rob WITTY Thomas O'Brien Z Asgharpour, P Zioupos, F Fuerst J Akhavan and E Dossi Examination of Organisational Learning in a high stress environment The Vision of the Internet of Military Things (IoMT) Growing Green Democracy? Barriers to Ecological Modernisation in Democratising States Validation and application of human models for CRASH scenarios Energetics@Cranfield University-Defence Academy of UK Review of Clifford Bob, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 225pp., 18.99 p/b). Detection of Anxiety in a Remote Sensing Way by Using Hyperspectral Imaging Technique Feral Government? The Limitations of Critical Success Factors in the Context of Major Government IT Projects Understanding and Applying Critical Success Factors in Government IT Project Management: A Case Study of a UK MoD IT Project Is Security Awareness a Waste of Time?

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Thomas O'Brien Tong Chen, Peter Yuen, Mark Richardson, Annie Maddison Annie Maddison Debi Ashenden and Darren Lawrence

CENTRE FOR DEFENCE ENTERPRISE (CDE) - Increasing your chances of success

1. The Commercial Office should be your first point of contact if you wish to submit a proposal to the CDE. They have Proposal Champion status for CDS so ask Kathryn Noon (ext 5432) if you wish to be registered on the portal and to start an application fo r either a themed call or the open call. You will then be assigned Opportunity Manager status and can begin your application. Althou gh the VCs office in Bedford are the Enterprise Authority for the University overall, all CDS applications must go through Commercial, so contact us first for help. 2. You can subscribe to an email service for the latest news and announcements from MOD's Research Programme. Go to http:// www.science.mod.uk/engagement/engagement.aspx and click on the Subscribe link in the top right-hand corner. 3. The most useful of the guidance manuals is probably the Quick Start Guide, starting on page 10 Developing your Opportunity. Ignore the Account Registration information before that. Its available here: http://www.science.mod.uk/engagement/ documents/20110321%20u%20cde%20portal%20quick%20start%20version%203%20point%200.pdf 4. To increase your chances of a successful proposal a. For themed calls answer the challenge in the call document, not what you want it to be b. Clearly articulate the innovation you are offering and the benefit to Defence c. Explain the work that will be done d. Have a clear and logical plan for delivery e. Clearly indicate what the deliverable will be f. Show how you will measure the performance of the deliverable 5. Attendance at the CDE Surgeries is recommended but they book up quickly. Check the website (Events and Calls) for registration dates. The surgeries offer support and individual guidance to innovators on potential research proposals. Discussions will be based around a previously prepared and submitted quad chart detailing your innovative idea. Each appointment will last for 30 min utes and are held at Harwell.
http://www.science.mod.uk/engagement/the_portal.aspx
ANY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FUTURE ISSUES PLEASE EMAIL PROFESSOR MARK RICHARDSON AT m.a.richardson@cranfield.ac.uk