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QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYe-Grad School

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH MANAGEMENT (ATN-

PPRM)

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT PLAN

Instructor: Paige Maguire

Student Number: n7252854

Daniel Joseph Costello

Daejin University, Department of

International Trade and Management,

San 11-1, Sun Dan Dong, Pocheon,

Gyeonggido, 487-711, ROK

Cell: +82-(0)10-8856-3554

Email: c ostello [email protected]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION TITLE PAGE(S)

A. NISO budget, proposal and management 3

B. Milestones, timing and payments schedule 4-6

C. Future funding cycles planning and needs 6-7

D. QUT processes and NISO negotiation 7

E. NISO and QUT processes compliance

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F. RM funding obligations

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G. Staffing and supervisory management

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H. Management of planned publications 9

I. Collaboration 9

J. Policies and guidelines considerations 10

K. Conclusion 10

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Bibliography 11

A. NISO budget, proposal and management

Staff Member(s)

Name

Direct Salary

(with 26.9375 %

Oncosts)

In direct Costs

Multiplier (1.6 )

Charge out Rate

Research Fellow

QUT Level C -01

28,443

(38,930)

62,288 62,288

Postdoctoral fellow

Level B -01

27,071.00

(37,052.00)

59,283 59,283

PhD student 14,220

(19,463.00)

31,141 31,141

Research assistant

(junior level 1)

17,073.00

(23,368.00)

37,389 37,389

Colleague

collaborator

N.A. N.A. N.A.

Sub-totals: 86,808.00

(118,813)

190,101 190,101

Total: 190,101

Team Selection: Comprises four officially paid participants, one unpaid

collaborator and one senior proposals advisor (not listed).

Salaries: Proportional to QUT salary scales with oncosts. Research Fellow QUT Level

C -01 at HEW2 -06, Postdoctoral fellow Level B -01 HEW1-07, PhD student HEW2-01,

Research assistant (junior level 1) HEW2-02 (QUT Salary Scales, 2009)

Oncosts calculation: Based upon QUT rate of 26.9375%

In-direct costs multiplier: QUT rate of 1.6 (Outside work)

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Charge Out Rate: The final calculation is about 10,000 AUD below stipulated

maximum limit or about 25% of full-time duties.

Final Costing/Pricing/Signing Authorities: Requires supervisory approval under

QUT B/7.9 Outside employment - professional staff regulations.

Proposals Management: See Section D.

B. Milestones, timing and payments schedule

IFP/NISO Grant Timeline 2010 (Simplified GANNT)

TASK Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

IFF Begins $

2011 NISO

Proposal

begins

P

Map all

participant

sub-

projects

Draft

contracts

C

Review

team

research

data and

collection

1st Team

research

confer

NISO

Proposal

P

3

Draft 1

Senior

Faculty

Referral 1

2nd Team

research

conf.

NISO

Proposal

Draft 2

P

Senior

Faculty

Referral 2

3rd Team

research

conf.

Submit

Final NISO

Proposal

with QUT

Pre-

approval

P

4th Team

confer &

IFF Debrief

Key Milestones

1. IFP Grant Ends (April, 2011): It is essential that funding for NISO be

extended to continue team management and results or progress.

2. NISO Grant Begins (April, 2011): The continuity of our research depends

on the award of this grant process which relies upon agreed 50% payment at

start and 50% payment midway through the twelve months period. While

this is an ideal start date it might be better to begin three months earlier.

3. NISO Reports (June, September, December 2011 and Final March

2012): As required quarterly progress reports submitted to ensure

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compliance and review results contingent on funding approval for the

completion of the project. Without clearing these milestones research ends.

NISO Grant Timeline 2011(Simplified GANNT)

TASK April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

IFF Grant

Ends

$

Develop

improvem

ent plan

post IFF

Grant

50% NISO

Grant

begins

$

Preapprov

al Student

draft

NISO Q1

Report

$

Preapprov

al Post-

doc draft

5th Team

Conf

Student

seminar

draft

approval

Student

publicatio

n

Post-doc

publicatio

n

NISO Q2 $

3

Report

50% NISO

Grant

$

Student

Seminar

Colleague

draft

approval

TASK April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

6th Team

Conf

Colleague

Publicatio

n

Q3 Report $

NISO

report

pre-

approval

Final Team

Conf.

Final Team

Debrief

Q4 Report $

NISO Final

Report

Publicatio

n

NISO Ends

Key Milestones (continued)

4. Preapproval of Drafts for Publication (May, June, July, September

and December 2011): QUT clearance of documentation must ensure no

sensitive IP is publically revealed while at the same time the knowledge

sharing beneficial for the research community is relevant and specific

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enough to be useful with internal and external approval of final draft

required. These are contractual obligations for satisfaction of team research.

5. Team Conferences (July, October, December 2010/February, June,

October 2011/January 2012: A mix of semi-formal/informal internal

knowledge sharing events will provide a collegial and rewards based system

of ensuring standards compliance as well as internalization of best team

based practices to allow consistent forms of collective information sharing

while minimizing directive leadership emphasizing self-improvement as a

cooperative approach to full endorsement of the publications milestone.

6. Publications Schedule (July, August, November 2011/March 2012):

As required for team members to progress professionally their efforts to

cooperate will be rewarded with expedited approvals processes and general

team moral will contribute to excellent research practices to fulfill NISO

requirements and predicates viability of team model as well as future

successful grants applications and projects.

C. Future funding cycles planning and needs

IFP/NISO Improvement and Debrief: General staff conferences are planned to

review lessons learned and areas of possible improvement to be applied at present

and in future during preparation, application and implementation of NISO grant

awards and processes. For example, the process of generating proposal drafts and

rewrites should encourage improvement measures as well as timely regular

evaluations of progress in concert with NISO required quarterly reports. Leading

from these iterative processes the team will be well positioned to proceed further

than 12 months with NISO grants applications and/or other similar provisioned

finance opportunities.

Draft Contracts: Contracts for all participants are recommended to be drafted and

approved by QUT at a Risk/Value of Level four and retained in fireproof settings

approved by contract/MOU manager in accordance with G/6.1 Policy on

management of contracts and MOUs (6.1.6 & 6.1.7).

D. QUT processes and NISO negotiation

NISO Draft Proposals: A series of three will be written the first two comprising

drafts composed on the basis of senior researcher and colleague collaboration

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following referral, amendments and final clearance with QUT financial and

contractual offices prior to proposal final submission to NISO. For example, proposal

drafting starts in June 2010, followed by two draft referrals in August and October

then final submission to QUT Office of Research in January one month prior to NISO

deadline (two months prior to approval and start).

QUT Preapproval of Final NISO Proposal Submission: This final stage of

internal evaluation of the NISO project proposal will include the research legal and

financial expertise of our in house team in the Office of Research to ensure

submission meets or exceeds specified grant rules and regulations as well as the

seal of approval of internal and departmental oversight. For example, there should

be no surrender of IP, no unrecoverable liabilities and a full list of minimum required

terms.

E. NISO and QUT processes compliance

QUT processes: Priority internal requirements met first to meet NISO application in

D/2.6 QUT Code of Conduct for Research and clearance with Office of Research

implies minimum requirements in terms of contract management, budgeting,

supervisory authority in terms of responsible research, applications, management of

research data, supervision or training, publication of findings, authorship, peer

review, management of conflicts of interest and collaboration with other institutions.

F. RM funding obligations

Estimated budget and the IFP/NISO Grant Timelines 2010/2011: Show

current funding has progressed for two months while 12 months further funding is

desirable to maintain salary and integrity of research team. Budget is found to be

within the range of 200,000 for 12 months for NISO application. 50% upfront

anticipated start of April, 2011 and 50% at proposed six month milestone of

September 2011 with 16% overhead according to QUT outside work regulations and

no capital acquisitions. Regular review of NISO required reports and internal

improvement conferences ensure budgetary and regular audit oversight also

provisioned by QUT A/3.3 Audit and Risk Management Committee.

G. Staffing and supervisory management

Mapping of Participant Subprojects: This will ensure that no conflicts in

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potential IP and information confidentiality currently exist related to the NISO grant

or may arise during research itself. In addition justifies budget and salary

allocations. For example, QUT 8.1.6 of the Code of Conduct describes integrity in

financial or personal affairs whereby no researchers may be in direct employment of

NISO or related to any of its officers among many others required.

Senior Faculty Referrals: This performance will be formally contracted to ensure

protection of all IP and knowledge generated in the contract through confidentiality

agreements. For example, this could be quite brief or highly detailed depending

upon scope of potential share authorship possibly desired by our senior faculty as

described in Preventing Discord in Research Collaborations (Lyman, 2008).

Review Team Research Data Collection Methods: A group learning and

refresher course in qualitative & quantitative data collection and storage methods

may be conducted to ensure all team members are up to date with the latest QUT

regulations and to ensure highest quality results at present and in future. For

example, The University of Illinois at Chicago offers several online courses in its

Masters of Education in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment which

could prove useful to our NISO team researchers.

Team Research Conferences: To reduce individual study time and maximize

collaboration the team leader recommends a collective reading list from which

summary presentations of current published international business research will be

shared and disseminated to the group. Each member may select titles and have

opportunity to lead discussion on relevant topics on a regular basis (See IFP/NISO

Grant Timeline 2010/2011). This ensures group leader is sharing information and

opportunity for more junior members to participate in knowledge transfer. Such

semi-formal occasions will be followed by an informal BBQ and/or evening

sundowner event. Flexibility in publishing regime will be extended on evidence of

willingness to collaborate and cooperate in this iterative exercise.

Team Leadership: Maintains an open door policy for all participants as internal

customers of the proposals and grants research process as the hierarchic pyramid

is quite low and necessarily responsive and inclusive of the needs of its members.

H. Management of planned publications

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Publishing: Student open seminar slated for 18th month or September 2011 is

preceded by Student & Post-doc first authorship publications in July and August of

the same year followed by a collaborator colleague first authorship publication in

November, 2011. These four events will require the cooperation of all members to

assist in each other’s planned publishing regimes with full data logs required to

support or argue any possible disputes over data. It appears fair that the more

junior members of the team should publish first while the senior is permitted the

final word on the topic. These milestone events are iterative and will depend upon

approval of QUT copyright clearance as well as research team supervisory clearance

that no essential or confidential IP is being released as well as no core NISO

publication plans are revealed prior to its contracted preapproval and release to

public in December 2011 and March 2012.

NISO: May require additional approvals of junior and senior faculty publications

provisioned through regular quarterly reports on progress in excess of 2 months

approval of final project publication. To reiterate all IP generated to be owned by

QUT under grant extending exclusive license to NISO for 10 years of all possible

QUT patent commercially viable results.

I. Collaboration

Contract for old colleague collaborator is recommended including a provision as a

nominal team member without salary for services provided in exchange for

opportunity of at least one senior authored paper in agreement with NISO

sponsorship and QUT requiring two months prior submission to NISO and one month

approval process. Terms include access to project materials through formation of a

possible university to university partnership protecting QUT ownership of IP rights

and any patents discovered to be licensed back to NISO.

J. Policies and guidelines considerations

QUT Considerations: In the absence of known employer research policies and

guidelines this hypothetical research plan in the realm of international business is

conducted under the auspices of Australian principles and practices of research

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management.

1. QUT Research and Development Policy in particular sections: 2.6 QUT

Code of Conduct for Research, D/4.4 Research groups / nodes / laboratories /

programs / domains (Tier 4), D/6.1 University research ethics and D/7.1

Outside work - academic staff.

2. QUT Code of Conduct for Research all sections: D/2.6 QUT Code of

Conduct for Research.

3. QUT Office of Research: Writing Competitive Research Funding

Applications, Financial Administration of a Successful Research Grant and

Human Ethics FAQs

4. QUT Office of Human Resources: Chapter B Human resources in

particular: 7 General Employment Determinations 7.3 Remuneration and

allowances, 7.9 Outside employment - professional staff, 7.10 Salary

loadings and 8.1 Code of conduct.

5. QUT Department of Finance and Resource Planning: A/7.1 Indemnity

and Insurance policies in particular for staff, external officers and liability

coverage, G/1.1 Financial management in particular audit and risk

committees as well as division of finance resource and planning.

K. Conclusion

This brief research plan is submitted for consideration of meeting the requirements

of (assignment four) assessment for Principles and Practice of Research

Management (ATN-PPRM) on June 6, 2010. Any errors or omissions may be reviewed

submitted and called to the attention of the author at earliest convenience to

ensure successful progress on IFP and NISO grants research proposals and projects

may be made. Amendments will be made in accordance with referral and

consultation of assigned instructor as soon as they are received.

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