This month’s Catalyst aims to inspire new ideas, strengthen connections, and propel your professional growth as we get ready to wrap up the year and start planning to prepare for 2025.
We’re thrilled to bring you Part 3 of Hanna Bates’ insightful series on Relationship Building. This latest installment dives even deeper into the power of connections in our field, offering strategies to foster collaboration and trust. Gloria Greene’s View from the Top gives us a taste of Halloween with The Spooky Office of Sponsored Programs: Haunted Deadlines and Creepy Compliance.
The SRAI DEI Committee continues exploring how to Empower Diversity by examining Potential Cautions of AI on Diversity, Engagement and Inclusion (DEI) in Research Administration. Their thoughtful exploration will leave you both inspired and cautious, urging us to think more strategically about technology’s impact on inclusion.
Continue expanding your learning journey with Career Latticing - Part 2 from Tonya Edvalson, where she talks about the benefits and pitfalls of this new way to look at career paths. Also be sure to check out the comprehensive article on how to create training experiences by Jill O’Quin and Cathy Short, to explore innovative approaches to improving knowledge retention and skill development in your teams. Also on the topic of development, Evelina Brännvall offers insightful advice in Advancing Your Research Administration Career: A Professional Growth Journey
Adrienne Lindsay delves into the critical partnerships that are vital to achieving compliance success in her article Research Administrators and Faculty Researchers: A Study on Relationships and Compliance Outcomes. Linda Dement also delves into a different side of relationships, talking about how many languages you speak in research administration.
Finally, as we start planning for the end-of-the-year, Saiqa Anne Qureshi and Rani Muthkrishnan remind us of the importance of data transparency in ‘Tis the Season: For Annual Reporting of Data. And don’t forget to take some time to decompress with Shannon Corrigan’s Literary Review on Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.
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Authored by Heather Brown, Grants and Contracts Administrator
Duke Human Vaccine Institute
SRAI Catalyst Co-editor
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