How to Grow Your Research Program: Lessons from Oakland University
Growing any research program requires strategic planning, strong institutional support, and a commitment to staff development. In our February 2025 webinar, Dr. Andrea Buford from Oakland...
How Disconnected Technology Impacts Research Administration Productivity
To help ease the administrative burden often associated with research, many organizations invest in new digital tools or software. Unfortunately, they frequently ignore the bigger system-wide...
Disconnected Technology: The Unexpected Costs and Best Solutions
To help ease the administrative burden often associated with research, many organizations invest in new digital tools or software. Unfortunately, they frequently ignore the bigger system-wide...
Ensuring Compliance with Sponsor Policies
How does Cayuse help research teams ensure institutional, federal, and sponsor policy compliance? Vicky King, Cayuse’s senior modernization lead, explains. Learn more about how Cayuse can help...
Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Talent in Research Administration: Retention
Part one of a three-part series on attracting, motivating, and retaining talent in research administration In our 2022 Benchmark Report, which analyzed survey results from over 1,000 research...
How To Make Project Management Easier for Research Administrators
Research administrators have major responsibilities to manage risk and outcomes through smart project management. All this pressure can be a burden on leaders and their teams, as evidenced by the...
5 Ways To Reduce Risk in Research Administration
Research administration is a risky business. It involves diverse processes requiring careful, even meticulous, management. With any project comes risk, but there are ways to mitigate this risk...
Optimize Research Administration by Eliminating the 8 Wastes
Most administrators are familiar with lean management. It is the business approach of maximizing value and minimizing waste. In research administration, lean management is critical for success —...
How Intelligent Automation Is Driving Research
Artificial intelligence is all over the news these days, and it seems AI — in some form or another — is here to stay. But what is AI, and how exactly can AI support your daily tasks? Can it...
Tips To Improve Job Satisfaction and Workplace Conditions in Research Administration
Research administration is a crucial function for supporting scientific research and innovation. But the fast-paced and demanding nature of this role can lead to high levels of stress and burnout...