Authored by:
Mark Hochman
Education and Professional Development Committee Co-chair
Research Management Resources
Email: mbm.hochman@gmail.com
Dara Little
Education and Professional Development Committee Co-chair
Northern Illinois University
We are happy to announce that the 2019 SRAI educational calendar is now available. Find the best program for you and your professional development needs, connect with peers, advance your career or just become more involved with SRAI. As a volunteer society, your peers work hard each year to make sure that we provide you with the knowledge you need to succeed and maintain your competitive edge as a research administrator. We are grateful to all of our members who help make these programs a success!
Please take a minute to explore the below educational offerings, and save the dates as you make your 2019 professional development plans!
Your feedback on these programs is invaluable, please do not hesitate to reach out with questions.
FEBRUARY
- Basics of Research Administration | February 25-26 | Austin, TX
- The effective purpose of this conference is to provide participants with a broad overview of the various aspects involved in research administration: finding funding, pre-award, award acceptance, compliance and post-award.
- Winter Intensive Training Programs | February 25-26 | Austin, TX
- Change Leadership: In this intensive training, you will work to build YOUR core thinking and language skills for collaboration-leadership, coaching, re-imagining “customer experience” with procedural and expense compliance activities and improved process flow.
- Contracts and Subagreements: The purpose of this program is to provide better understanding of grants, contracts and subagreements and support you in developing best practices for administering those award mechanisms, when determining what awards to accept at your institution.
- Make Your Research Entity Thrive by Championing Change: This intensive program will identify and examine issues typical of transformational change efforts unique to research organizations and provide the learner with effective strategies for moving those initiatives forward.
MARCH
APRIL
- Midwest / Northeast Section Meeting | April 28 - May 1 | Chicago, IL
- Come to Chicago and expand your research administration knowledge, network with your colleagues, meet new friends, and explore this exciting and historic city. A quality program with 3 complete certificates, 6 educational tracks, learning cafés, round tables, and so much more for your professional growth.
MAY
- Spring Intensive Training Programs & Departmental Administration | May 20 - 21 | Miami, FL
- Departmental Administration: This intensive program will cover proposal development, sponsored projects administration, cost principles, account monitoring and reconciliation, closeout, and other topics that a departmental research administrator would need to know to help them manage their department.
- The Road to Yes: Building Your Negotiator Toolkit: Industry and academia have two different roads on success. Industry succeeds by controlling and using knowledge as a benefit to its consumers, whereas academia succeeds from the open discovery and sharing of knowledge. Learn how to bridge these two roads for your institution’s success.
- Post-award Administration: This interactive training will enable you to nimbly navigate the complexities of sponsored programs post-award requirements and will explore the research administrator's role at your institution and at others to learn alternative ways to be of service to the sponsor, institution and investigator.
- The Role of Ethics and Compliance in a Research World: What happens when the data are found to have been fabricated, falsified, or plagiarized? As a grants management person, how would you know if this suspect data was being used in grants applications, or progress reports? These and many more questions will be addressed in this intensive training program designed to examine the relationship between research integrity issues and successful grants management.
JULY
- Basics of Research Administration | July 15 – 17 | New York, NY
- Come to the Big Apple, NYC, and learn all about research administration, from finding funding, pre-award, through award acceptance, compliance and post-award.
- Research Leadership Intensive | July 15 – 17 | New York, NY
- Research, technology and innovation are becoming ever more complex. Success requires vision and focused research management leadership. Join us to explore theory, skills, strategies, and best practices for leading successfully in a research management environment.
- Summer Intensive Training Programs | July 15 – 17 | New York, NY
- Conducting Research in Hospitals: Hospitals and Healthcare System based Research: This training is for research administrator professionals who manage research, or have a role in managing research, in a hospital and/or healthcare system. The intensive program provides unique insight into research operations in these environments where research activities exist side by side with clinical operations and both have a focus to improve the lives of patients and populations served.
- Proposal Development: Join us for a deep dive training in understanding and applying strategies to enhance the overall research portfolio by developing individual and institutional grant capacity.
OCTOBER
Additionally, we offer local and online educational opportunities through:
- Chapter Meetings
- Webinars - offered twice each month live and 365 days on-demand
- Traveling Training Programs: These are an easy, practical way to bring customizable programs to your organization. We are committed to fostering a positive and enjoyable educational experience that is flexible, targeted and engaging for the professional careers of all research administrators and managers.
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