EAGER: Administrative Burden in University Research Administration

EAGER：大学研究管理的行政负担

• 批准号: 1745825
• 负责人: Barry Bozeman
• 金额: $ 17.1万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Administrative; Burden; University; Research

The productivity and efficiency of government-sponsored academic research depends not only upon the training, creativity, and hard work of researchers but also the administrative systems within which researchers are embedded. However, increases in the research policy-based administrative burdens experienced by academic researchers suggests there is a worrisome reduction in the percentage of work time available for core research activities. The project explores the relation of universities? diverse research administration policies and organizational structures on researchers' administrative experiences. The broader impacts of the study include providing evidence of most effective strategies for efficient research administration and suggesting possible administrative reforms, with the objective of enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of research administration and, thereby, the productivity of academic research. The research surveys academic principal investigators about their experiences with research administration, including perceptions of administration burden, the amount of time spent on grants-related administration and the strategies employed for effective and efficient research administration. The project assesses research administration activity in terms of the time and resources required but also the extent to which a policy objective. This approach implies that some administrative burden is more harmful than others; if no significant policy objective is advanced then the efforts at administrative compliance does little more than promote red tape. By contrast, activities requiring considerable administrative burden may be redeemed by serving an important policy goal or social impact. The project is based on (1) semi-structured interviews with academic researchers, as well as interviews with university research administrators who are support staff, and (2) administrative diaries provided by the PIs participating in the project.

政府资助的学术研究的生产力和效率不仅取决于研究人员的培训、创造力和辛勤工作，还取决于研究人员所在的管理系统。然而，学术研究人员经历的基于研究政策的行政负担的增加表明，可用于核心研究活动的工作时间百分比出现了令人担忧的减少。该项目探索了大学与大学之间的关系。不同的研究管理政策和组织结构对研究人员的管理经验。这项研究的更广泛影响包括为高效的研究管理提供最有效的战略的证据，并提出可能的行政改革，目的是提高研究管理的效率和效力，从而提高学术研究的生产力。这项研究调查了学术主要研究人员在研究管理方面的经验，包括对管理负担的看法，在与拨款有关的管理上花费的时间，以及为有效和高效的研究管理所采用的策略。该项目从所需的时间和资源以及政策目标的程度来评估研究管理活动。这种做法意味着，一些行政负担比其他行政负担更有害；如果没有提出重要的政策目标，那么行政合规的努力只会促进繁文缛节。相比之下，需要相当大的行政负担的活动可以通过服务于重要的政策目标或社会影响来挽回。该项目的基础是：(1)对学术研究人员的半结构化访谈，以及对作为支助人员的大学研究行政人员的访谈，以及(2)参与该项目的私人投资机构提供的行政日记。