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Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2019
The authors of this report call on their colleagues to adopt "Public Impact Research" (PIR) as a broad label to describe how university research improves lives and serves society--locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. Using PIR consistently along with fundamental discovery and training the next generation workforce communicates…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Public Colleges, Land Grant Universities
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Myers, Lori A. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2017
Elevating research and supporting scholarship are both a responsibility and core value of all family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals. This responsibility may involve: (1) Introducing the research process under graduate students; (2) Guiding the research of graduate students; (3) Mentoring a junior faculty member to establish a research…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Research and Development Centers, Information Sources, Educational Resources
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Lehman, Dwayne W. – Journal of Research Administration, 2017
The administration and management of sponsored projects spans many levels within an institution of higher education. Research administration professionals require an operational understanding of a complex and intertwined set of disciplines that include project management, finance, legal, ethics, communication, and business acumen. The explicit…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Theories, Research Administration, Knowledge Management
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Hottenstein, Kristi N. – Journal of Research Administration, 2018
The United States is a world leader in biomedical clinical research. America's existing human subject research regulations structure affords sizable protections for the ethical treatment of research volunteers. Early initiatives such as the Belmont Report were specific to federally funded research. Over the past several decades guidelines such as…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Governing Boards, Research Administration, Volunteers
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Wedekind, Gerben Kristian; Philbin, Simon Patrick – Journal of Research Administration, 2018
This paper illustrates how a university-based project management office (PMO) can provide focused support across the entire grant project lifecycle within a European research context. In recent years, EU (European Union) research and innovation grant programs have increasingly shifted to support multidisciplinary consortia composed of industry,…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Grants, Consortia, Research and Development
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Schnurr, Matthew A.; Taylor, Alanna – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
In 2016, Dalhousie University's Research Ethics Board created an interdisciplinary working group to identify the key ethical challenges of SoTL research, with the overarching aim of recommending best practices and communicating these to researchers in order to support and expand the conduct of ethically sound SoTL research. This essay reflects on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Research Committees, Scholarship
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Huang, Yating – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Drawing on in-depth interviews and classroom observations with 14 academics from the field of applied sciences, this case study provides empirical evidences on the research-teaching nexus in the context of Chinese research universities by examining the multi-layered factors at the individual, institutional and organisational levels. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers, Research Universities
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O'Regan, John P.; Gray, John – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
In the years since the second Thatcher government (1983-87), and continuing until the present, universities in the UK have been subjected to a series of neoliberal reforms which have had a deleterious effect on academics' working conditions and on the kind of research they are required to produce. 1986 saw the introduction of regular sector wide…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Martin-Sardesai, Ann; Irvine, Helen; Tooley, Stuart; Guthrie, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Performance management systems have been an inevitable consequence of the development of government research evaluations (GREs) of university research, and have also inevitably affected the working life of academics. The aim of this paper is to track the development of GREs over the past 25 years, by critically evaluating their adoption in the UK…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Pierszalowski, Sophie; Smith, Francesca; López-Cevallos, Daniel – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
Studies have shown that student engagement in undergraduate research experiences leads to considerable gains in a wide range of skills important for success in postsecondary education and career development. However, recent research suggests that high-impact practices like undergraduate research are disproportionately available to students from…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, State Universities, Equal Education
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Saas, Tyler; Kemp, James – Research Management Review, 2017
Deloitte Consulting LLP conducted a review of publicly available data sources with the goal of identifying the pre- and post-award systems used in higher education. The number and type of pre- and post-award systems identified not only show that higher education institutions (HEIs) use a variety of methods to facilitate research activities, but…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Higher Education, Awards, Primary Sources
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Johnson, Marcus R.; Bullard, A. Jasmine; Whitley, R. Lawrence – Journal of Research Administration, 2018
Background & Aims: Lean methodology is a continuous process improvement approach that is used to identify and eliminate unnecessary steps (or waste) in a process. It increases the likelihood that the highest level of value possible is provided to the end-user, or customer, in the form of the product delivered through that process. Lean…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Employment Practices, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Medical Research
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Harsh, Matthew; Bal, Ravtosh; Wetmore, Jameson; Zachary, G. Pascal; Holden, Kerry – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2018
The emergence of vibrant research communities of computer scientists in Kenya and Uganda has occurred in the context of neoliberal privatization, commercialization, and transnational capital flows from donors and corporations. We explore how this funding environment configures research culture and research practices, which are conceptualized as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Projects, Research Administration, Longitudinal Studies
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Zapp, Mike; Helgetun, Jo B.; Powell, Justin J. W. – European Journal of Education, 2018
Educational research in Norway has experienced unprecedented structural expansion and cognitive shifts over the last two decades because of greater state investments and the strategic use of extensive and multi-year thematic programmes to fund research projects. Using a neo-institutionalist framework, we examine institutionalisation dynamics in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Change
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Hill, Geof; Vaughan, Sian – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The authors' lived experience of devising a professional development programme for research supervisors and securing SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) accreditation informs this paper. Our first purpose is to outline the programme and discuss its uniqueness in using a community of practice model in conjunction with practitioner…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Accreditation (Institutions), Supervisory Training, Program Development
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