Explore our menu of professional development and training programs for research administrators and principal investigators.
All workshops can be customized to meet your specific training needs. Given the interactive nature of these sessions, we require a five person minimum and ten person maximum per session.
The history, regulations, acronyms and systems associated with proposal development and submission.
Where to find funding. Work with your researchers to find funding to support their research.
How to read a request for proposal. Understand the details of individual proposal guidelines.
Grant writing basics. Learn the basics of proposal development and grant writing to better support your researchers.
Proposal preparation resources. Where to find grant proposal guidelines, a review of standard forms and narratives, and where to go for help.
Budgeting session 1. A review of common budget categories. Working with your office of Sponsored Programs on common cost items.
Budgeting session 2. More advanced discussion of cost items, and a review of allowability, allocability and reasonableness.
Subawards, Vendors, Consultants, OH MY! How to property categorize subrecipients, vendors and consultants in your proposal budget.
Proposal editing, review, routing and submission. Crossing the finish line to get your complete, compliant proposal submitted without a hitch!
The post-award lifecycle, award types, negotiation and acceptance.
Post-award management and closeout.
Complex issues in post-award management.
Writing Efficient Emails. An introduction to soft skills and how to incorporate them into email to get a positive response.
The Mindful Research Administrator. How to keep your zen under pressure.
What PIs Want You to Know. Tips and tricks to working effectively with PIs, and learn what their biggest pet peeves are.
Managing Difficult Personalities. Coping skills and sample scripts to work more effectively with five of the most difficult personality types.
Succeeding Among Differing Work Styles. Work style definitions and how to effectively work with each type.
Developing Soft Skills and Building Your Career. Strategies to inventory, plan and execute steps to build your career and master the soft skills to get you there.
A history of the IRB and how this affects you as a research administrator.
Implementing the Common Rule and questions and answers.
A review of various federal requirements for understanding and implementing your FCOI program.
Learn about the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), troublesome FAR clauses, and tips for negotiation of FAR clauses in contracts.
Education and training on the FDA's guidance for institutions conducting clinical trials.
Learn about the Bayh Dole Act and how this affects you as a research administrator. The transition of iEdison from NIH to NIST and requirements for disclosing inventions and patent filings.
Where to go, what to do, and who to know that can help you get started with grants. How to balance research and teaching.
A systematic deep dive into the grant lifecycle. The outcome will be a one-page summary of your proposal.
Follow-on workshop to Funding my Research Session 1. The outcome will be a draft proposal for submission to an external sponsor.
Basics of grant accounting and best practices for compliant management of external funds