iSRA Virtual Conference - Education

Education 

The iSRA Virtual Conference will be accessible via Zoom online platform. The daily agenda will allow for four 60-minute sessions with 30-minute breaks in-between, and include five tracks of focus over three days. Learn more about the tracks below. 

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.

Professional Development (PD)

  • Continuing education commitment
  • Building on personal growth and development;
  • Leadership
  • Quality of life development 
  • Self-assessment 
  • Supervisor/staff relations
  • Industrial/workplace psychology
  • Emerging role of research administrators within the culture of research

Financial and Post-award Administration (FA)

  • Research cost accounting
  • Auditing
  • OMB requirements for universities, hospitals, private sector
  • Matching funds issues/cost sharing
  • Financial conflict of interest issues
  • Facilities and administration costs
  • Purchasing, Salaries, Compensation, Honoraria
  • Travel allocability and allowability
  • Working with sponsoring agencies and subrecipient monitoring

Management and Operations (MO)

  • Delivery of operational services and research and financial compliance programs
  • Facilities management
  • Research infrastructure such as capital programs and building and managing of science and technology parks
  • Human resources and international personnel management
  • Supporting collaborations with international organizations

Sponsored Programs, Planning, Development and Deliveries (SP)

  • How to develop collaborative partnerships with industry, government and non-profit sectors
  • Identifying strategies in developing public-private partnerships
  • Institutional capacity building, including supply-side partnerships
  • Faculty, positioning; effective grant writing techniques
  • The role of the research administrator in sponsored programs development
  • Diversifying funding sources
  • Communication strategies in sponsored programs development
  • Organizational and team structures to support successful program development

Research Ethics & Compliance (RE)

  • Human research
  • Animal research; peer review
  • Mentor/trainee responsibility and development
  • Publications
  • Collaborative research ethics
  • Scientific misconduct
  • Standards for the responsible conduct of research
  • Research ethics education programs, curricula, requirements, and approaches