STRENGTHENING RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION INFRASTRUCTURE AT AFRICA UNIVERSITY, ZIMBABWE

加强津巴布韦非洲大学的研究管理基础设施

• 批准号: 9130065
• 负责人: Rugare Abigail Kangwende
• 金额: $ 5.94万
• 依托单位: AFRICA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-18 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9130065
• 关键词: Address; Administrator; Africa; African; Area; Award; Benchmarking; Centers of Research Excellence; Clinical Research; Communities; Competence; Country; Development; Economics; Education; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Equilibrium; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Funding; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Home environment; Human Resources; Incentives; Income; Information Services; Institution; International; Internships; Knowledge; Leadership; Manuscripts; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Output; Policies; Policy Making; Policy Research; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Process; Productivity; Qualifying; Reporting; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Research Support; Rewards; STEM field; Science; Series; Services; Social Change; Social Environment; Students; Support System; System; Training; Training Support; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Work; Workload; Writing; Zimbabwe; biobehavior; cost effective; data management; evidence base; experience; improved; infancy; innovation; interest; leadership development; outreach program; peer; programs; public health relevance; skills; social; symposium; tool; user-friendly; webinar

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Africa University (AU) in Zimbabwe strives to be a center of research excellence and a research leader, contributing to knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination for leadership development, and for social and economic transformation. This project seeks to strengthen the research administration infrastructure at AU, in order to assist researchers to successfully compete for international funding to carry out the much needed research to solve the many health problems that Zimbabwe is facing. Currently the biomedical and biobehavioural research output at Africa University is low. Lack of grants management and other support for researchers is thought to be a contributory factor. This project proposes to develop the recently established AU Office of Research and Outreach Programs (OROP) to make it fully functional and productive to serve the needs of the AU research community. The project proposes a plan to develop the capacity of Africa University OROP leadership and staff in various aspects of research administration. This will result in the availability of a user-friendly central research office that is led and staffed by well qualified ad motivated cadres to support and motivate interested AU faculty, students and staff to move to the next level of productivity in research. The project proposes an innovative cost-effective staffing plan for the OROP. Then a two-tiered capacity building plan where initially the research administration leaders are trained in many areas, including NIH policies and processes, then they in turn pass on the knowledge and skills they would have acquired to the OROP staff. A variety of training methods will be used, including internships, formal certified courses, seminars, workshops, e-lessons, exchange visits. Mentoring will be provided by well-experienced leaders in research administration. The OROP staff will in turn support and train AU researchers on key areas that include developing research proposals, implementing and managing grants, report and manuscript writing. The ultimate goal is research output increasing at AU, especially large externally funded research. This will generate income that will in turn sustain the OROP, enabling it to provide even more professional services to researchers.

 描述（由申请人提供）：津巴布韦的非洲大学（Au）致力于成为卓越的研究中心和研究领导者，为领导力发展以及社会和经济转型贡献知识生成和知识传播。该项目旨在加强Au的研究管理基础设施，以协助研究人员成功地争取国际资金，开展急需的研究，解决津巴布韦面临的许多健康问题。目前，非洲大学的生物医学和生物行为研究产出很低。缺乏对研究人员的赠款管理和其他支持被认为是一个促成因素。该项目提议发展最近设立的Au研究和外联方案办公室，使其充分发挥作用，富有成效地满足Au研究界的需要。该项目提出了一项计划，以发展非洲大学OROP领导层和工作人员在研究管理各个方面的能力。这将导致一个用户友好的中央研究办公室的可用性，由合格的广告激励干部领导和工作人员，以支持和激励感兴趣的Au教师，学生和工作人员进入下一个生产力水平的研究。该项目提出了一个创新的成本效益高的人事计划，为OROP。然后是一个两级能力建设计划，最初研究管理领导人在许多领域接受培训，包括NIH政策和流程，然后他们将获得的知识和技能传递给OROP工作人员。将采用各种培训方法，包括实习、正式认证课程、研讨会、讲习班、电子课程、交流访问。指导将由经验丰富的领导人在研究管理提供。OROP的工作人员将反过来支持和培训Au研究人员的关键领域，包括制定研究建议，实施和管理赠款，报告和手稿写作。最终目标是增加Au的研究产出，特别是外部资助的大型研究。这将产生收入，反过来又将维持OROP，使其能够为研究人员提供更专业的服务。