Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose (SAN), disclosed this yesterday, on the occasion of the distribution of letters of award to TETFund National Research Fund Grantees.
This was contained in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by Directorate of Public Communication, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Mrs. Adejoke Akinpelu.
Bamgbose lauded TETFund for filling the research gap in Nigeria, saying that worldwide, not every university lecturer is a researcher as many lecturers only focus on the teaching track, while only a few combine teaching with the research track.
According to him, this is an anomaly, as both should go hand in hand. She noted that a small proportion of academic staff engage in research due to a lack of access to local research funding.
She said that UI management would do all possible things to make the university a research-intensive institution.
To this end, she said, each faculty and department is expected to have an active research committee to promote research culture among members of staff.
Bamgbose, who appealed to senior researchers to ensure they use their grants to support early career researchers, gave the assurance that the UI would continue to maintain her rightful position in the comity of higher education institutions globally and sustain her leadership role in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
She, therefore, promised that the administration would deploy more resources to research administration so that the institution will continue to soar higher.
