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CRi Research Enterprise Measures of total research funding and research intensity per faculty member are critical standards that universities, funding agencies policymakers – and prospective faculty members – use to evaluate and rank universities.
But the importance of research funding goes much further than its academic profile. Universities, facing a funding freeze across most of their revenue streams, increasingly rely on research grants and contracts for revenue growth. This growth has come with a parallel increase in the complexity of grant and contract processes and in the number of people and types of specialists working in university organizations to assist applicants and manage awards.
It is clearly in a university’s best interests to ensure that all the research support services are working in harmony to maximize funding opportunities for faculty.
CRi Research Enterprise helps universities identify and prioritize meaningful improvements in all the support services tied to research funding – raising awareness of available programs, shepherding grant applications, overseeing contract negotiation and managing awards to the satisfaction of the granting body.
Stronger, more efficient research support services that match faculty needs will lead to greater faculty satisfaction and better grant proposals.
Key benefits
> Practical recommendations to bring meaningful improvements
CRi identifies and prioritizes practical ways to increase the effectiveness of the resources intended to support the research grant and award management processes.
Senior administrators and research support services managers will gain clear insights into exactly where improvements need to take place and in what priority.
> Easy implementation
CRi’s turnkey approach to research means that a university’s time commitment to survey creation and management is minimized. CRi handles all aspects of the survey program for the university including:
> Cost effective
A CRi survey of faculty perceptions of the effectiveness of a university’s research support services is significantly and measurably cost-effective in light of the benefit to a university of attracting even one additional grant or award in a funding cycle.
CRi clients generally find that their CRi investment is easily recovered through cost efficiencies identified by the results.
> Recommendations targeted to specific populations
The recommendations resulting from the research can easily be made specific for sub-segments of faculty members that are of particular interest to the administrators overseeing research support services. Respondent segmentation can take place by type of award, faculty, number of awards won, complexity of awards, etc.
Analysis focuses the on the importance and performance of such areas as: monitoring of funding opportunities (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR, CRC’s, CFI’s etc.), proposal development, ethics clearance and procedures, intellectual property and private sector partnership issues, technical support, program set-up and management, and the marketing of research success within the academic community.
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