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Academic-Corporate Relations at a Research University: Options for Engagement Practices and Organization
(2017)
Universities engage with corporations to pursue their missions in research, teaching, and public service. In recent years, corporations have evolved their expectations for university relations from primarily philanthropic ...
Pre-Award Research Administration Infrastructure: Current Practices and Future Directions
(2017-08)
Competition for federal research funding is increasing as federal funds allotted for research lag behind the growing demand. Reducing administrative burdens on research faculty would allow more time for faculty to conduct ...
Metrics for Determining Staffing Needs in Departmental Research Administration Offices
(2018-05)
Departmental research administrators are the link between researchers and the offices of sponsored projects at major universities. They also serve as liaison between the researcher and the agencies that fund their research ...
Development of a Research Handbook: A Guide for New Researchers
(2018-12)
Working at an institution with a budding Research Department necessitates the development of additional resources for the education of new researchers. Such an educational gap was noted by key research personnel at Kadlec ...
Development of a Biological Handbook: A Reference Guide for Regulatory Considerations of Biological Products
(2019-12)
The broad range of chemical and biological compliance standards has resulted in a complex, multifaceted regulatory environment for the development and distribution of biological products. Due to this complexity, company ...
Enhancing the Proposal Submission Process by Developing Procedures for the Engineering Departmental Pre-Award Administrator: A Study at a Top Ten Public University
(2019-12)
The field of research administration is an ever-changing environment, requiring individuals within this profession to remain pro-active. For those responsible for pre-award functions, the proposal preparation and submission ...
Research Administration: The Most Important Job No One Knows About
(2019-08)
The research enterprise is constantly fluctuating due to changing policies at either the sponsor or institutional level, including changes in how research is viewed and conducted. With the amount of research funding expended ...
The Implementation of the Research Business Administrator at a Large Healthcare Organization: A Programmatic Evaluation of the Department of Research and Evaluation Units
(2019-12)
In 2017, two divisions within the Department of Research and Evaluation, at a large Healthcare Organization, underwent a decentralization which resulted in the creation and implementation of a new role, the Research Business ...
The Infrastructure of Research Administration at the RAND Corporation: A Case Study of The Social and Economic Policy Units
(2017-08)
In 2014, the Social and Economic Policy Units (or research units) at the RAND Corporation went through centralization which created new job titles and new job descriptions for research administrators, allowed research units ...
Increasing Effectiveness and Value within Research Administration: Prioritization and Enterprise Level Project Selection through a Lean Six Sigma Lens
(2020-12)
Given the complexity in which research administration functions, process related inefficiencies, waste and defects are a familiar operational challenge. Lean Six Sigma provides a framework to deconstruct processes, identify ...