UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT PROGRAM RESEARCH MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP
THE UASP FELLOWSHIP IN RESEARCH MANAGEMENT develops higher education FELLOWSHIP COMPONENTS research management capacity in Africa and Roundtrip airfare, J-1 visa fees, accident and Eurasia through a six-week fellowship in the Financial sickness insurance, housing, daily allowance of United States. Including two weeks of training Provisions $50 per day (meals and incidentals), and a pro- in Washington, DC, a four-week placement at a US university, and opportunities for post- fessional development allowance of at least $600 program small grants and engagement, the Research 2 weeks of intensive training and peer-to-peer UASP supports up to 32 mid- to senior-level Management learning in Washington, DC research managers to build their universities Training into leading research institutions.
US Host 4-week placement observing and analyzing Sample fellowship focus areas University research management operations at a respected • Institutional research strategy Placement public US university. Fellows’ placements are • Incentivizing research (with Host assigned according to requested focus area(s) which are priorities of their home institution. • Winning and managing research funding Mentor) Publication and enhancing reputation • Implementa- Application of learning from the host placement to • Research ethics and integrity tion Plan or make recommendations for research manage- • Researcher development, career support Comparative ment reform at the home institution. • Research methods training Case Study • Postgraduate research programs Virtual An online platform enables fellows to engage with • Technology transfer Learning UASP trainers, peers, and alumni prior to, during, • Research commercialization Environment and after the fellowship. • Institutional data, reporting, and audits Post- Post-program small grants competition to put program learning into action (e.g. to kickstart a reform at ONLINE APPLICATION: Grants and the home institution), take research management https://www.irex.org/uasp Engagement courses, and/or attend relevant conferences.
The UASP is developed and implemented by IREX and is kindly supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. ABOUT THE UASP RESEARCH MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP
2018-2019 PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS IN EURASIA* ARMENIA UKRAINE
Armenian State Pedagogical University Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Gavar State University Languages Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute after Nalbandyan Kharkiv National University Vanadzor State Pedagogical Institute after Tumanyan Kherson State University Yerevan State Linguistic University after Bryusov Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University Yerevan State University Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National
BELARUS University Kyiv Mohyla Academy European Humanities University Kyiv National University Lviv National University GEORGIA South Ukrainian Pedagogical University named Akaki Tsereteli State University after Ushynskyi Gori University Ternopil National Pedagogical University Ilia State University Uzhhorod National University Sokhumi University Volodymyr Dahl East Ukraine National University Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University Zaporizhzhia National University Telavi Iakob Gogebashvili State University *Each UASP cohort also includes participants from Africa.
TIMELINE Applications due Cohort I Cohort II Small Grants April 15, 2018 Fellowships Fellowships and Coaching
Award take place take place January - Notification September - January- December 2019 May 2018 November 2018 March 2019 (6 weeks in US) (6 weeks in US)
IMPACT OF UASP SINCE 2002 55% developed 28% introduced new new administrative teaching, learning and 87% delivered processes assessment methods training to staff 32% provided a new 26% established a service to students new functional unit SUCCESS STORIES
Olena Tupakhina established the first Technology Transfer Center at Zaporizhzhia “ UASP is the most professionally National University. In its first six months of operation, ZNU successfully partnered with composed and administered 11 different businesses. Nine patents have been confirmed in the fields of metallurgy program supporting professional and pharmaceuticals, with seven more pending. development I have ever partici- pated. It promotes international Tetiana Yaroshenko established the first Center for Digital Research and Scholarship collaboration and justified con- Creation at National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. cept 'learning by doing' ...and inspires for real changes at our Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova developed and implemented an intensive research home institutions. methods training for 30 Social Sciences faculty and postgraduate students from 4 ”
institutions across Ukraine. Zaporizhzhya National University also approved Katerina’s - Manana Mikaberidze, new 3-credit undergraduate course in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods. 2016-17 participant, Georgia
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