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No. More. Workshops!! - Radical Experiments with Researcher PD

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No. More. Workshops!! - Radical Experiments with Researcher PD

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It seems like every year, we hear the same feedback on our workshops: nobody is going, because nobody has time... or nobody perceives why they should *make* time. Since one definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting the same result, this year I've decided to STOP doing ALL traditional workshops at UC Davis and instead do a year of experiments to figure out new ways of reaching our researchers with what they need, where they are. I'm going to report on my findings at NORDP, and am wondering if anyone else has similar experiments in PD they'd like to co-present on?? If so, let's talk about this scary, exhausting new world we've signed ourselves up for! I'm Sarah Messbauer, and you can shoot me an email at smessbauer@ucdavis.edu. Yee haw!

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Research Development and DEI--Authentic Engagement in STEM

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Research Development and DEI--Authentic Engagement in STEM

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I have worked with a couple of faculty to develop an article (in press) that articulates how early-career faculty can incorporate DEI into their new research projects. It may be interesting to see how others work with their STEM faculty to help them incorporate elements of diversity, equity, and/or inclusion. DEI aspects are required in various forms by many federal agencies (EO 13985).  Perhaps, we could do a panel, a mini-discussion, or a 1-page sharing session?
Contact: Monica Kessel monica.kessel@usu.edu

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RD Professional Development - Becoming a private consultant

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RD Professional Development - Becoming a private consultant

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Would anyone be interested in attending and/or presenting session on RDPs discussing how and why I became a consultant: pros and cons; how I got set up; what I would do differently? If so, please reach out! Jessica Venable, jvenable@thornrun.com and Carol Bursdal: carol.burdsal@ku.edu

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Models for Developing Training Grant Support at your Institution

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Models for Developing Training Grant Support at your Institution

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Since we started our Training Grant Support Office ~2 years ago we rapidly grown the support that we offer to faculty in the development and maintenance of our institutional training grant portfolio. Centralized training grant support takes on a variety of forms at the institutions that offer this service. I am looking for others who have an established training grant support office that would like to co-present on their office structure and services, lessons learned, etc. to provide insight for others who are looking to develop centralized training grant support at their institution.

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Short Description of your awesome RD idea
Your Name (e.g., Katie Pelland)
Contact Info (e.g., catherinempelland@gmail.com)

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Research Development encompasses a set of strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, creating relationships, and developing and implementing strategies that increase institutional competitiveness.

Research Development professionals initiate and nurture critical partnerships and alliances throughout the institutional research enterprise and between institutions-and with their external stakeholders. With the goal of enabling competitive individual and team research and facilitating research excellence, Research Development professionals build and implement strategic services and collaborative resources that span across disciplinary and administrative barriers within their organizations and beyond.

Research Development includes a broad spectrum of activities that vary by institution, including: funding opportunity identification and targeted dissemination; grant/contract proposal development; research team building; interaction with funding agencies and institutional research administration and leadership; interaction with institutional federal relations; and outreach activities and training.
Research Development according to Wikipedia
Research Development: A Career for the Planners, Strategists, and Figure-it-Out-ers (Samarapita Sengupta is a science writer at Neuroscience Research Development (NeRD) Office at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the NORDP Liaison to the National Postdoctoral Association. This article was published by the National Postdoc Association, October 2017)

Strategic Research Advancement
Collaborate to identify areas of institutional research priorities * Strategic Planning Support (information to leadership about opportunities/strengths/weaknesses) * Advise institutional leadership on issues related to research * Serve as institutional representative to university community and external visitors * Manage or contribute to decisions regarding internal funding * Provide research areas development support to include such things as formal partnerships with external entities or facilitating faculty participation * Interactions with political leaders related to research initiatives at your institution * Liaison with institutional federal relations * Industry collaboration and partnerships * Liaison with funding agencies about direction of future research funding initiatives * Bringing Program Managers/Agency representatives to Campus or taking/introducing Faculty to them * Facilitating Sponsor Site visits * Coordinating/Managing the limited submission process

Communication of Research and Research Opportunities
Manage marketing of research, e.g. annual reports, research magazine, web page development/coordination, identifying institutional priorities * Raise profile of university strengths that add to visibility or impact of university with external funding sources * Providing proposal/award information related metrics to internal constituents * Website support e.g. grant opportunities and proposal development * Collect and disseminate funding information to faculty and administrators * Conducting Grant Writing Workshops on your campus or regionally

Enhancement of Collaboration/Team Science
Convene and coordinate multi-disciplinary interest groups * Catalyze new cross-disciplinary research initiatives * Sponsoring catalytic research events, e.g. research mini-symposia * Develop and/or coordinate resources and tools to promote collaboration * Provide guidance and expertise for building and fostering connections and teams * Maintain faculty expertise database and other collaboration web tools * Facilitating collaborations between investigators at your own institution * Facilitating collaborations between investigators at other institutions * Provide guidance on the identification of and manage the institution's Research Networking Tools

Proposal Support Functions
Assisting faculty to find funding opportunities * Newsletters/Listserv announcements of funding opportunities * Maintain a file of successful proposals * Assisting faculty navigate through administrative structures within your institution * Proposal Development Support for individual investigator awards * Proposal Development Support for large, complex awards * Proposal Development Project Management (coordinating milestones, internal deadlines, meetings, e-mail reminders, etc.) * Liaison with funding agencies during proposal development process * Grant Writing of Technical/Scientific, Evaluation, Resources, Administrative, Timeline, Communications, and Outreach portions of proposals * Developing/Reviewing Budgets and budget justifications for application * Handling Letters of Support/Biosketches/COI/Compliance/ * Developing Diversity and RCR education Sections for Grant Proposals * Coordinating/Finding collaborating institutions for a proposal * Suggesting collaborating scientists for a proposal * Providing strategic advise on making proposal competitive * Editing proposal drafts * Manage requests for cost sharing * Assist in coordinating institutional support requests * Coordinating pre-submission peer reviews of proposal drafts * Manage "Red Team" reviewers or external review process * Coordinating Core Facility information * Assist with Just in Time or additional information requests from sponsor after proposal submission * Analyze proposal reviews and provide feedback to investigators or other institutional officials.

Team Science is characterized by large multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative research projects comprised of large teams of scientists, that often integrate research with broader goals including education, technology transfer, outreach and diversity enhancement. Research Development is an activity that many Universities have embraced to enhance the efforts of their faculty and foster the development of collaborative, team-based science as well as compete for large research center and consortia funding opportunities. Research Development professionals serve as "rainmakers" who catalyze and facilitate team science in response to the external funding landscape.

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Research Development encompasses a set of strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, creating relationships, and developing and implementing strategies that increase institutional competitiveness.

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In training that I design, I often get asked to help faculty who feel that their worldviews clash with sponsors. One person reported "Reviewers don’t share my worldview - they think I’m too “spicy”. Would anyone be interested in co-presenting on ways RD professionals can help faculty navigate this space, and make go/no-go decisions that respect and are responsive to their values. And would anyone be interested in attending such a session? Contact: Jessica: jvenable@thornrun.com and Carol: carol.burdsal@ku.edu.

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Creating Meaningful Professional Development to Research Development Professionals networks at large, de-centralized institutions.  Here at Rutgers we dedicate a lot of resources (central level) to providing support to our RDPs - we have developed a micro-credential in RDP Essentials and are working on another in Project Management.  

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Creating Meaningful Professional Development to Research Development Professionals networks at large, de-centralized institutions.  Here at Rutgers we dedicate a lot of resources (central level) to providing support to our RDPs - we have developed a micro-credential in RDP Essentials and are working on another in Project Management.  

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Communication in teams: Tools to support increasing equity of voice in all stages of a team project

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Communication in teams: Tools to support increasing equity of voice in all stages of a team project

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This is another fairly broad idea that I also want to throw out first before refining, depending on who responds so we can build it together. I'd like to talk about tools to support and guide equity of voice in teams in all stages of a project, from ideation to implementation. I'd like to synthesize various sources I draw from on this topic along with experience working with groups surrounding research projects/programs, mainly in my role as a facilitator implementing Strategic Doing at various institutions, as support on some Team Science initiatives for clients, and as part of our ATG team. Please comment and/or contact me at sarah.james@atkissontraininggroup.com (consultant at AtKisson Training Group)

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How to ignite, harness, and sustain energy for team projects

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How to ignite, harness, and sustain energy for team projects

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This is a broad idea that I want to throw out first before refining, depending on who responds so we can build it together. I think a lot about energy in groups and how to best cultivate, harness, and sustain energy of individuals in groups and the group as a whole. I'd like to synthesize various sources I draw from on this topic along with experience working with groups surrounding research projects/programs, mainly in my role as a facilitator implementing Strategic Doing at various institutions, as support on some Team Science initiatives for clients, and as part of our ATG team. Please comment and/or contact me at sarah.james@atkissontraininggroup.com (consultant at AtKisson Training Group)

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At the convergence of Research and Economic Development

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At the convergence of Research and Economic Development

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Some institutions have historically supported Economic Development as a core mission while others of us have just begun to intentionally incorporate this into our organizations. With major investments in programs like the EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge, Good Jobs Challenge, and the ongoing NSF Innovation Engines program many of us have been supporting proposals with an explicit focus on Economic Development.

The research and education at our institutions leads our RD work, however, for truly impactful economic development our impact must be measured in the benefits, economic and social, to the stakeholders we seek to support, usually external to our organizations. This can lead to conflicts with our traditional thinking around how to secure funding to support these endeavors.

Looking for folks to speak on their experiences in these types of programs and how we might better adapt to these types of opportunities in the future for a session or roundtable.

Contact: Zac Perry
Za.Perry@northeastern.edu

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As we help researchers become more successful communicators and advocates of their research, I want to share the ways how we as research development professionals can help researchers with their scientific communication skills for different audiences. I have conducted multiple workshops on how to effectively communicate your research plan, and draw your science at Stanford for researchers. If you also resonate with the idea and want to collaborate, please feel free to reach out to me!

Contact info: Vinita Bharat, PhD
vbharat@stanford.edu

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Tools to Infuse Principles of Equity into Clinical Research

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Tools to Infuse Principles of Equity into Clinical Research

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We developed a checklist tool to aid researchers toward intentional embedding of an equity lens throughout the lifecycle of a clinical research project. Do others have tools they've developed? Would love to showcase various examples from other institutions. Contact me at christin.daniels@duke.edu.

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Instead of each of us having to read all the pertinent articles, I propose we present a lit review and pull out innovative strategies useful to PUIs.  A few sample articles below:

https://www.science.org/content/article/big-thinking-small-universities

https://www.chronicle.com/article/big-research-small-college/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1237845.pdf

Erica Kennedy
ekennedy@jcu.edu

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Integrating Research Development in Institutional Strategic Planning

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Integrating Research Development in Institutional Strategic Planning

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I am looking for colleges that, by choice or by design, have contributed to their institutional academic strategic planning (ASP) efforts in the recent past. At Syracuse University we are thick in the process of our ASP refresh, and both by choice and design, the Office of Research has taken on multiple significant roles. I'd love to compare efforts and impact with other colleagues who have been involved in ASP efforts at their own institutions at different scales.
Contact: Christina Leigh Docteur cdocteur@syr.edu

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We gave a talk at the 2017 NORDP Conference about launching our then brand-new university grand challenge programs. Five years later, a lot has changed, in ways we never could have predicted! Are you running a grand challenges program, too? Do you have surprising outcomes, sustainability plans, or lessons learned to share? If so, join us! Depending on how much interest we see, this could be a panel discussion, or could be a Lightning Storm.
Contact: Jennifer Lyon Gardner lyon@austin.utexas.edu

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We want to share the ways that we connect with and build relationships with our coworkers that help us build trust and work together better. We are thinking of things like book clubs, informal meetings, etc. We would love to present with NORDPers from other institutions to get some different perspectives!

Contact: Maggie Berg (meberg@illinois.edu) and Kelsey Hassevoort (hassevo2@illinois.edu)

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PUI Affinity Group available to support inclusive panels!

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PUI Affinity Group available to support inclusive panels!

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A sidebar as you all work on these wonderful ideas: the PUI Affinity Group would love to help in ensuring panels are inclusive of the many institutional contexts represented by NORDP members, including predominately undergraduate and other teaching-intensive institutions. Please feel free to contact PUI NORDP Chair Kara Luckey (kluckey@seattleu.edu) if you could use help in identifying potential panelists that can provide perspective from diverse institutional types. Our network is wide and deep!

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Responding to the Justice 40 initiative in proposal development

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Responding to the Justice 40 initiative in proposal development

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I have written two proposals with a Justice 40 volumes. I believe a panel of experiences would be interesting to NORDP members. I certainly want to know how other proposal development professionals are approaching Justice 40 priorities!
Contact: Gay Cookson, gay.cookson@utah.edu