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‘We’re problem solvers’: research administrators offer guidance to working scientists – Nature (Sara Reardon | July 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on August 19, 2021
Keywords: Good practice, Institutional responsibilities, International

The Linked Original Item was Posted On July 5, 2021

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Helping with grant applications, ensuring compliance and coordinating with funders is all part of the job.

The 2011 earthquake in Japan changed neuroscientist Tadashi Sugihara’s career path forever. Sugihara had been working as a senior research scientist at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, but the damage to his laboratory and other setbacks from the quake prompted him to reconsider his dream of becoming a principal investigator.

The AHRECS team includes incredibly experienced administrators who either have a doctorate or are HDR candidates.  So we heartily agree with this article.  Drop us a line to enquiy@ahrecs.com if you’d like to discuss how we could work in support of your institution.

His lab had been partnering with Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota to integrate brain science into car-safety systems, and Sugihara had learnt that he was good at the intensive budgeting and report writing that such a collaboration entailed. “I realized some of the researchers really did not like these kinds of negotiations with a big company,” he says. “I was gradually understanding another side of my skills that made me very useful.”

So when the Japanese Ministry of Education launched an initiative in 2011 to fund the appointments of academic administrators, Sugihara applied for a job as research administrator at Kyoto University. Although he was initially worried about abandoning his dream, he was able to move past those concerns. “I didn’t feel bad at all,” he says. “The transition was very smooth.”

‘We’re problem solvers’: research administrators offer guidance to working scientists
Helping with grant applications, ensuring compliance and coordinating with funders is all part of the job.

Related Reading

(China) Chinese excellence drive ‘may make universities weaker’ – Times Higher Education (Joyce Lau | February 2021)

Worried your researchers might not be treating human research ethics as a core component of good research practice? Concerned they are not seeing it as their responsibility?

Monitoring research is too important to be optional and too resource intensive to be manual

(US) Overdue: a US advisory board for research integrity – Nature (C. K. Gunsalus, et al | February 2019)

Seven Costs of the Money Chase: How Academia’s Focus on Funding Influences Scientific Progress – APS (James McKeen | September 2017)

Integrating Integrity – Inside Higher Ed (Kaustuv Basu 2012 )

Resourcing Practice, Not Policing Compliance: A New Role for Ethics Committees and Administrators.’

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