Amplifying Research
Goal #1
Increase engagement in research
Key Objective
- Cultivate faculty, student, and staff involvement in research
- Grow collaborations focused on research output through funded research and scholarship
- Leverage institutional resources to increase the competitiveness of proposals
Potential Tasks
- Develop incentives for research performance (individual, transdisciplinary and collaborative).
- Develop incentives to enhance staff research.
- Enhance and operationalize strategies to match stakeholders with suitable funding opportunities.
- Increase support for proposal development and submission activities.
- Identify, acquire and roll outtools/applications to enhance and streamline proposal development, routing and award management.
- Publish an annual State of Research report to share broadly.
Goal #2
Encourage investment in research administration/ infrastructure
Key Objectives
- Remove internal research barriers and increase research support for grant
lifecycle. - Inventory and disseminate resources such as human capital, devices, instruments, laboratories, etc.
- Engage all researchers with available infrastructure.
- Improve collaborative research management.
Potential Tasks
- Develop approaches/infrastructure for campus stakeholders to articulate administrative barriers and identify pathways for resolution, e.g., providing administrative supports for REU programs.
- Increase administrative support for the research lifecycle, from proposal and budget development to final reporting.
- Create a research advisory committee to assist in the prioritization research investments (infrastructure, wish list, F&A, cost share, mini-grant seed funding proposal selection) and promote transparency.
- Foster retention strategies to maintain key NMT research personnel and their level of satisfaction.
- Establish management academy for research administrators/managers to increase capacity.
- Develop research administrator network to scaffold and support research staff to ensure alignment with institutional policy/best practices and the mitigation of risk.
- Reinvigorate the research collaboration group.
- Update resource inventory annually with with survey on usage.
Goal #3:
Support research outreach & collaboration
Key Objectives
- Increase Transdisciplinary research
- Increase student engagement, internships, and employment
- Promote research output and success
- Enhance external collaborations - e.g., NM Consortium, national laboratories, universities, and colleges.
- Recruit students, particularly graduate students
Potential Tasks
- Increase activity in consortia - at all levels
- Enhance research communications
- Develop (or enhance) student research symposium - (and develop & support) projects.
- Enhance the research lunch and learn series.
- Develop and share collaboration calendar
- <Need a task on student recruitment>