Collaboration Hubs

Management & Operations

Focuses on overarching structure and policies that create a holistic, operational system supporting the practice of research administration. Topics include developing and implementing policy, planning and ensuring efficient operational services – managing resources including staffing and budgets, interacting with external constituents and stakeholders, and other functions required to manage the complex, international research environment. 

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Research Contracting, Law and Risk Management

Focuses on legal, and regulatory issues that scientists, research administrators and attorneys may face in contract negotiation and award administration. As there are many legal issues in research, examples of /some of the issues addressed are: intellectual property and technology transfer, conflicts of interest; confidentiality, data use, protection and privacy; cybersecurity; import/export licensing; and foreign influence of US research.

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Compensation and Effort

Compensation for personnel is the majority of the budget for most sponsored projects.  It is critical that compensation is budgeted accurately, tracked throughout the life of the sponsored project, and reported consistently across all personnel categories while maintaining internal controls as outlined in federal regulations.  This forum is provided as a space to discuss the challenges of managing compensation for sponsored activities.

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Clinical and Translational Research

Covers 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.

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Research Analytics & Business Intelligence 

Focuses on the use of data to understand the past, present, and future of an organization’s research enterprise. Leaders in research administration want to have a good understanding of the activity in their organizations to assist with strategic planning, hiring decisions, trends and more. Data helps them answer those questions and helps predict strategic opportunities for future investment. Topics include the methods and apps to create online self-service portals, dashboards, analytic reports and other tools, leveraging data sources that are both internal and external to the institution (such as the NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey [HERD] data). The goal is to provide meaningful analysis, and identify common practices in data analysis for research administration to tell the story and move the business forward in sustainable ways.

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