Collaborative Research: Conference: Strategically Engaging Private Institutions at Building Research Infrastructure, Networks and Knowledge (BRINK) in the Emergence of Research

研究管理和研究发展(RARD)管理人员作为专业人员承担着独特的责任，他们支持跨不同研究学科的合作，在教师学术生涯的所有阶段为他们提供支持，并与外部合作伙伴和赞助商接触，使RARD成为发展研究企业的关键人力资源投资。该项目将培训RARD专业人员在战略思考、规划、领导和促进对话方面使用基于优势的方法，称为SOAR(优势、机会、抱负和结果)，以激发新兴研究机构内部和跨机构的创新、协作和支持研究参与，以提供增长所需的指导、共享专业知识和资源。劳伦斯理工大学将与南佛罗里达大学和密歇根独立学院和大学网络合作，主办建筑研究基础设施、网络和知识(BRINK)会议，通过面对面和虚拟研讨会提供为期一年的培训，并将主办研讨会，展示参与者在新兴研究机构内部和跨新兴研究机构实施的能力建设项目的结果。Brink通过优化培训、集体指导和研讨会的协同方法提高能力，解决了新出现的研究机构障碍。Brink RARD培训的基础是赏识探究(AI)的SOAR框架和方法，这是一种询问生成性问题和使用积极框架的实践，以使所有利益相关者参与战略规划和组织变革。最初的研讨会将是关于SOAR的培训、个人优势评估(SOAR个人资料)，以及为个别项目设定目标。该项目将邀请密歇根州新兴研究机构的研究管理和研究开发(RARD)管理人员参与，他们将学习如何使用SOAR对各自研究企业内的实践和流程进行战略性思考和计划。后续90天指导会议的三次迭代将分享支持实施的项目和战略的临时成功。最后的专题讨论会将提供一个机会，分享成功实施的战略，这些战略特别有助于研究界支持所有新兴研究机构的能力。BRINK项目活动将促进密歇根州新兴研究机构可持续网络的发展。佛罗里达研究发展联盟是建立这种可持续结构的合作伙伴和典范。BRINK计划的方法和结果将被广泛传播，目的是促进在新兴研究机构内建立研究开发和支持能力的网络方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The unique responsibilities of Research Administration and Research Development (RARD) administrators, as professionals who support collaboration across diverse research disciplines, support faculty at all stages of their academic careers, and who engage with external partners and sponsors, make RARDs a critical human resource investment in growing the research enterprise. This project will train RARD professionals to use a strengths-based approach, called SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results) in strategic thinking, planning, leading, and facilitating conversations that spark innovation, collaboration, and support research engagement within and across emerging research institutions to provide mentoring, shared expertise and resources required for growth. Lawrence Technological University in partnership with University of South Florida and Michigan Independent Colleges and Universities network will host the Building Research Infrastructure, Networks, and Knowledge (BRINK) conferences to provide training over a year-long period via in-person and virtual workshops and will host a symposium to showcase the results of participant’s implemented capacity-building projects within and across emerging research institutions. BRINK addresses emerging research institutional barriers by increasing capacity through a synergistic approach that optimizes training, collective mentoring, and symposia. The basis of BRINK’s RARD training is the SOAR framework and method of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a practice of asking generative questioning and use of positive framing, to involve all stakeholders in strategic planning and organizational change. Initial workshops will be training in SOAR, individual assessment of strengths (the SOAR Profile), and setting objectives for individual projects. The project will engage Research Administration and Research Development (RARD) administrators from Michigan’s emerging research institutions who will learn how to use SOAR to think and plan strategically about the practices and processes within their respective research enterprise. Three iterations of follow-on 90-day mentoring sessions will share interim successes on projects and strategies supporting implementation. The final symposium will provide an opportunity to share successfully practiced strategies that specifically contribute to the research community’s capacity to support all emerging research institutions. The BRINK project activities will promote the development of a sustainable network of emerging research institutions in Michigan. The Florida Research Development Alliance is a partner and model for building this sustainable structure. The methods and results of the BRINK program will be widely disseminated with the goal of promoting networked approaches to building research development and support capacity within emerging research institutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.