Research and Development Unit of The British College has been established to organize, coordinate and/or stimulate scientific research in the field of business, management and IT.

The aim of the unit is to provide a platform for faculty members, students, and staff for their research projects and activities which will help establish and strengthen the research culture in Nepal.

Categories of R&D Unit:

• Internal Research
  • Internally, handles all the undergraduate and post-graduate academic programs, which are focused on supervising of students for their Dissertation and Consultancy project.

• External Research
  • Externally, promotes and monitors faculties wanting to do their respective research in their areas of interest
  • Besides, it along with concerned researcher will be responsible for preparing proposals to external grant opportunities
  • The TRDC will be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring of projects/ grants once awarded

Objectives

• Provide education/training/open platform for post-graduate and undergraduate students for their final Dissertation or Consultancy project 

• Promote and facilitate collaborative and/or interdisciplinary research and enhancement of research networking capacity and infrastructure 

• Encourage Academic Management and Faculties to get involved into research project aiming to publish the journal in the wider range of online platforms
• Contribute to the college’s strategic educational and research mission that supports the inter-link between research, teaching, learning and development
• Contribute college’s mission of achieving mission of achieving AACSB accreditation 

• Knowledge transfer and implementation of research finding into the society for its benefit via appropriate mechanism.

• Enhance the status of its members, academic units and entire college through its quality of work

Policy

• Research and Innovation platform that TRDC provides are for Academic Management and Full-time faculties of TBC
• Faculty may be involved in one or more research projects under TRDC
• Inter-Disciplinary Research: Faculty may work with one or more members within one department
• Intra- Disciplinary Research: Faculty may work with two different departments
• Multi-Disciplinary Research: Faculty may work with three or more departments
• Inter-Institutional Research: Faculty may work with multiple universities of national and international level