Education

Education

Certificates

The SRAI Certificate Program offers comprehensive training specific to today’s educational needs of research administrators & managers.

Three certificates will be offered at the 2025 WE/MW Section Meeting:

Certificate Guidelines and Tracking Booklet

Guidelines

The curriculum for each certificate includes a required half-day or full-day workshop and a specific amount of required and elective concurrent sessions depending on the certificate. Workshops and session are held at Chapter, Section and Annual meetings throughout the year.

SRAI members** have up to three (3) years to complete certificate program requirements, allowing greater flexibility to manage time, travel and budget constraints. For any questions about SRAI Certificate program, please send an email to srameetings@srainternational.org.

*Workshops require a separate registration from the full conference.

**Only Full SRAI Members may receive credit for taking certificate program workshops and sessions. Chapter members, non-members and those with a lapsed membership will not receive educational credit for any Certificate Program session or workshop taken during the time Full SRAI Membership is not in effect.


Certificate Tracking Booklet

The Certificate tracking booklet allows members to easily record their progress. You can write in the name of the meeting and the year on the line that corresponds with the session or workshop. 

The Certificate Tracking Booklet and other information will be available online closer to the meeting.

Learning Tracks

Learning Tracks are designed to develop the content in a way that assures value added opportunities for attendees. A secondary aim is to assist attendees to effectively plan their educational time. The tracks represent major subject and issue areas for research administration.

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Clinical and Translational Research 

Provides learning opportunities relating to “bench-to-bedside” and “bedside to the community” or ultimately “laboratory-to-medical practice” research for the membership. Our oversight includes all clinical and translational research topics relating to the conduct, management, regulatory oversight and workforce training in the settings of academic organizations, non-profit organizations, commercial industry, healthcare systems and hospitals.

Financial and Post-Award Administration 

Provides administrative research staff with an understanding of best post-award and financial management practices that include the regulatory framework for the direct and indirect costing of sponsored program activities, financial management decision-making and fiscal compliance of sponsored funds. Topics include: research cost accounting; auditing; OMB requirements; matching funds/cost sharing; financial conflict of interest; facilities and administration costs; purchasing; equipment and property management; salaries, compensation, honoraria; and travel allocability and allowability; working with sponsoring agencies and sub-recipient monitoring.

Pre-Award 

Focuses on the entire spectrum of external funding including the planning, development and submission of awards. Included topics are strategic planning and development for individual and collaborative grant proposals, developing individual and institutional grant capacity, funding opportunities, providing training programs in proposal and budget development, strategies for developing effective grant proposals, interacting with funding agencies, putting the proposal package together and submitting it to funding agencies, award review and acceptance, and post-award communication, internally and with funding agencies.

Professional Development

Educational offerings relate to the skills and behaviors that provide direction, motivation and influence in research administration. Topics include continuing education commitment; building on personal growth and development; leadership; quality of life development; self-assessment; supervisor/staff relations; industrial/workplace psychology; and the emerging role of research administrators within the culture of research.

Research Ethics and Compliance 

Covers issues of research integrity that deal with policies, regulations, (federal, state, institutional) and best practices regarding the ethical conduct of research. These topics may cover human and/or animal subject research, research with rDNA and other biohazards, research with hESC and hSPC, safe laboratory practices; data management (acquisition, sharing, ownership, rigor and transparency); mentor/trainee responsibilities and development; authorship and responsible publication practices; collaborative research ethics; research misconduct; scientists and social responsibility; export controls; conflicts of interest, commitment and conscience; standards/requirements for the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) and research ethics training and education programs.