Overview of Research Administration
This session will provide participants with a broad overview of the various aspects involved in research administration. The speaker will discuss all areas of research administration including:
- Pre-award
- Award Acceptance
- Post-award
- Compliance
- Technology transfer
Sessions will provide information at every level of research administration from several perspectives.
Pre-Award
This session the pre-award "process" will be discussed, including:
- Finding funding
- Basics of writing proposals
- Components of budget development
- Institutional review and approval processes
- Proposal submission and post submission activities
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the process of pre-award
- Identify components of guidelines
- Identify the parts of a proposal
- Identify usual budget items
Award Acceptance
This session focuses on the award acceptance process, the review of the award mechanism type, terms and conditions of awards including:
- Indemnification
- Publication restrictions
- Intellectual property
- Re-budgeting, international collaborations
- Invoicing and payment terms
- Reporting requirements
- Compliance
- Termination
- Award acceptance
Learning Objectives:
- List three main types of awards
- Be able to establish a plan of best practices in review and acceptance of awards
- Implement those best practices when reviewing awards
- Be able to explain the award life cycle, including changes, transfers and closeouts
Post-Award
This post-award session will discuss functions such as:
- Account/fund establishment
- Cost principles
- Financial management
- Re-budgeting
- Sub-recipient monitoring
Topics related to fiscal and programmatic reporting, cost sharing, program income, procurement standards; indirect cost rate types audit preparation, and the closeout process will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand guiding administrative/fiscal principles and regulations related to sponsored awards
- Identify critical information in awards for project setup, monitoring and reporting
- Describe typical functions of Post Award and be aware of basic processes and requirements
- Understand components of effective post-award administration
Compliance
Compliance is one of the key elements of successful project management. Compliance encompasses a variety of important topics including:
- Risk assessment of the project
- Animal subjects
- Conflict of interest
- Data management
- Environmental health and safety
- Export controls
- Human subjects
- Misconduct in science
- Responsible conduct of research
These topics will be incorporated into the other sections of this workshop as appropriate.
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to discern institutional and investigator compliance responsibilities relating to sponsored research
- Understand which aspects of compliance need to be addressed at which stage of the grant life cycle