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1. Strengthen Environment for Research Activities:
- Increase in the Research budget as compared to AY 2017-18.

- Promoting the faculty members to publish their Research work in quality journals that
resulted in increased number of quality publications in Scopus and Web of Science.

- Incentives given to faculty members for their joint Research papers with DU students.

- Focused on involving students actively in research.
2. Develop DU into a Hub for Research Activities that are Important to the Region

- Increased number of institutional and private Research activities in Dhofar region
channelized through DU.

- Signed MoUs with national and international private and government entities (for details,
refer to table 12).

- Organized Research day at a larger scale.

3. Ensure Ethics and Bio-Safety in Research:
- Ensured the Implementation of the ethics policy while reviewing and evaluating external

and internal Research requests.

4. Establish Research Teaching Nexus:

- Developed plans to focus on ‘Research teaching nexus’ during AY 2018-19 by promoting
faculty members to incorporate their Research into curricula.

5. Spreading culture of Plagiarism-free Research Environment:

- Along with the DVC, Colleges and DQA, steps were taken to ensure that students ensure

to use Turnitin to introduce a plagiarism-free research environment across DU.

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