Collaborative Research: RD/RA Support Networks at Diversified Research Institutions (SUNDRI)

不同研究机构的首席研究人员，包括新兴机构和主要是本科生机构，在寻求外部资金、产生有竞争力的研究提案和管理奖项方面经常面临挑战。该项目的目的是加深对目前研究密集度较低的机构的独特方面的了解，以及资助机构和中介机构如何能够最好地支持它们蓬勃发展并增加其研究贡献。目前的知识基于相对较少的案例研究和轶事；需要更系统的数据。该项目将在全国范围内随机抽样调查大约四分之一的非营利性四年制学院和大学的研究开发和管理人员，并使用结果来建立基于优势和基于赤字的需求、能力和增长机会的建模，提供他们的观点、挑战和要求的明确和具体的表达。由此产生的发现、结论和进一步研究的基线数据将提供有价值的新知识，并加强国家专业知识网络、交流和为不同研究机构提供的服务。一套制度上分散的研究开发/研究管理(RD/RA)--高等教育能力建设方面知识渊博的调查人员和专家顾问将合作，全面了解四年制学院和大学如何分配和履行RD/RA职能。主计委和技术人员将首先根据以前的调查和一系列实地考察、咨询、重点小组、测试和试点措施，制定和完善一项调查工具，以确定目前开展研发/风险评估活动的情况和情况，并评估加强的需求和资源。该项目将利用从IES和NCSES机构普查中获得的数据，如IPEDS和HARD，为调查工具和相关的分析文件播种。将从IPEDS世界中随机抽取一个由学士、硕士和博士院校组成的八层随机样本，其中包括HBCU等选定子集的过抽样，目标完成率为70%+，目标N=500+。这些措施将评估研发和研发职能在深度、资源水平和相互渗透方面的差异，研发工作的优势和弱点，以及为提高研发/研发质量和能力而提供的内部和联网支持的感知需求和优先事项。统计分析将探索研究支持企业的独特和共同方面，结果将被广泛传播。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。

Principal investigators at diverse research institutions, which includes emerging and primarily undergraduate institutions, often face challenges in seeking external funding, producing competitive research proposals, and managing awards. The project’s aim is to sharpen understanding of the unique aspects of currently less research-intensive institutions and how funding agencies and intermediaries can best support them to flourish and grow their research contributions. Current knowledge is based on relatively small numbers of case studies and anecdotes; more systematic data are needed. This project will survey research development and administration staff at a national random sample of roughly one in four not-for-profit four-year colleges and universities and use the results to develop strengths-based and deficit-based modeling of needs, capacities, and opportunities for growth, providing clear and concrete expression of their perspectives, challenges, and requirements. The resulting findings, conclusions, and baseline data for further studies will provide valuable new knowledge and enhance national networks of expertise, communication, and service to diverse research institutions. An institutionally distributed set of research development/research administration (RD/RA)-knowledgeable investigators and expert advisors in higher education capacity-building will collaborate to build a comprehensive picture of how RD/RA functions are distributed and performed at four-year colleges and universities. The PI/coPIs and technical staff will first develop and refine a survey instrument based on prior surveys and a series of site visits, advisory consultations, and focus groups, testing and piloting measures to determine how and how well RD/RA activity is currently conducted and assessing needs and resources for enhancement. The project will seed the survey instrument and associated analytic files with data harvested from IES and NCSES institutional censuses such as IPEDS and HERD. An eight-stratum random sample of baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral institutions will be drawn from the IPEDS universe, with oversamples of selected subsets such as HBCUs, with a target completion rate of 70%+ and target N=500+. Measures will assess variations in depth, resource levels, and interpenetration of distinctive RD and RA functions, strengths and weaknesses of the RD effort; and perceived needs and priorities for internal and networked support to enhance RD/RA quality and capacity. Statistical analyses will probe unique and common aspects of the research support enterprise and results will be broadly disseminated.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.