Professor Willie Donnelly:

The point I was making was that the individual in question is an academic member of staff. The academic member of staff would be allocated responsibility for the supervision of PhD students and he would also be allocated responsibility because he was seconded to oversee some of the management in TSSG. If anyone wanted, they could go through all the records and pull them together. In the case of a contract researcher, because one is charging their time to the project, all those records are in place. The point I am making is that this person is a whole-time academic member of staff. Their allocation is distributed under areas such as supervision and teaching, which could all be pulled together. I accept the point that we should be more formal so that when we second somebody to a particular project, we should have a formal way of ensuring that the 50:50 split can be measured. I agree with that. It is a very good point.