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22 multiplying factor ranging from 0.5 to 0.87 on average0.79 per grant. Several student grant projects are given below Shamjeet Singh supervised by Professor Dan Ramdath CRP.1MAY25.17 2011 Genomics of Insulin Signaling in a Rodent Model of Insulin Resistance generated one journal publication one conference attendance with a poster presentation. Vani Kalloo supervised by Dr. Permanand Mohan CRP.5.NOV10.1 2012Mobile Learning in Secondary Schools to Improve Performance in Mathematics generated four publications. Satish Jankie supervised by Professor Lexley Pinto Pereira CRP.1.MAR13.9 2013In Vitro Activities of Fluoroquinolones Entrapped in Non-ionic Surfectant Vesicles against Ciprofloxacin-resistant Bacteria Strains generated one conference attendance this student won the Picou Young Researcher Prize. David Gopaulchan supervised by Professor P. Umaharan CRP.5.MAR11.6 2014 Characterizing the Anthocyanin Biosynthetic Pathway towards Augmenting the Colour Range in Anthurium andraeanum Hort. generated two publications. The impact of CRP Funding on Research Productivity Research funding is always a challenge for the University yet is central to the development strategies for staff and students. Obviously funding has a major impact on the nature and sustainability of research capacity and consequently on the Universitys research productivity. How much research funding impacts andor improves research productivity is a question that has relevance for the CRP Fund. The citation index evaluates the average impact of university publications in a given discipline. Unfortunately it is difficult to gather the citation information to compare the impact of research produced. An alternative way is to count the number of grants and amount of funding provided versus number of research outputs generated. Research outputs are measured in terms of publications by the number of papers published per year and scholarly work such as book chapters journal articles conference papers software and film production etc. Using data from the submitted CRP project reports of 2010-2014there was a high correlation between total number of grants and research output though mean grants and outputs were not as closely related. For instance the Faculty of Medical Sciences took the lead and has the larger pool of funds from both staff and student grants while the faculty members and graduate students from Science and Technology as well as Humanities and Education are more productive in generating research outputs from their CRP funded projects. An attempt was also made to analyse whether collaboration among researchers from both Staff Grants and Student Grants would have a positive effect on research productivity. Interest- ingly the impacts of collaboration are less clear as evidenced in most researchscholarly work generated from respective CRP projects. Besides funding is positively linked to higher degree completion for students who publish. Numerous characteristics impact faculty research productiv- ity. Evidence shows that it is the dynamic interplay of individual and institutional characteristics supplemented with effective leadership that determines the productivity of an individuals or departments productivity. Hence the overall research produc- tivity at the St Augustine Campus is below that of many Commonwealth universities. Statistics also show that many tenured academic staff members have less accountability to the institution with regard to engagement in research being reluctant to apply for CRP Funds. To concludethe university could stimulate the strengthening of an institutional research culture by for example introducing adequate incentives and rewards for academics who engage in research. Conventional wisdom is that teaching and research are mutually supporting. Indeed one of the defining characteristics of todays university is that all academics are expected to be active researchers and active teachers. Research funding is always a challenge for the University yet is central to the development strategies for staff and students.