The SAGE Handbook of Research Management

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Robert Dingwall, Mary Byrne McDonnell
SAGE, Jun 26, 2015 - Social Science - 656 pages

The Handbook of Research Management is a unique tool for the newly promoted research leader. Larger-scale projects are becoming more common throughout the social sciences and humanities, housed in centres, institutes and programmes. Talented researchers find themselves faced with new challenges to act as managers and leaders rather than as individual scholars. They are responsible for the careers and professional development of others, and for managing interactions with university administrations and external stakeholders. Although many scientific and technological disciplines have long been organized in this way, few resources have been created to help new leaders understand their roles and responsibilities and to reflect on their practice.

This Handbook has been created by the combined experience of a leading social scientist and a chief executive of a major international research development institution and funder. The editors have recruited a truly global team of contributors to write about the challenges they have encountered in the course of their careers, and to provoke readers to think about how they might respond within their own contexts.

This book will be a standard work of reference for new research leaders, in any discipline or country, looking for help and inspiration. The editorial commentaries extend its potential use in support of training events or workshops where groups of new leaders can come together and explore the issues that are confronting them.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Getting Started
21
1 Preparing for a Research Career
27
2 Planning and Project Management
39
3 Responding to a Call
49
4 Getting Funded for the First Time
58
5 Winning Large Grants
69
6 Developing a Project and Choosing a Funder
79
Managing the People
321
23 Promoting Teamwork from Within and from Afar
327
24 Enacting Leadership in Research Programmes
336
25 Surviving and Progressing as a Research Fellow
348
26 Making Best Use of Research Administrators
358
27 Hiring Integrating and Removing Team Members
374
28 Mentoring Appraising and Ensuring Professional Development
383
Planning for Impact
395

Developing the Proposal
91
7 Developing and Managing Budgets
97
8 Supporting Management with Technology
110
9 Incorporating Gender and Diversity
124
10 Securing Access
144
11 Considering Ethics for Social Science Research
153
12 Managing Researcher Safety
173
Getting Organized
185
13 Organizing and Managing Research
191
14 Engaging the University Administration
203
15 Collaborating Across Disciplines
213
16 Developing and Executing CrossNational Projects
225
Managing in Different Environments
239
Eleven Lessons from Denmark
247
18 Negotiating in a US University Environment
259
19 Managing Research in a Developing Country
270
20 Promoting Research and Development in Large Organisations
280
21 Working Outside Universities
297
22 Managing the PrivateSector Research Project
307
29 Achieving an Impact
399
30 Exchanging Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences
423
31 Marketing the Team
443
32 Planning for Publications
457
33 Mobilizing and Disseminating Research Findings through Informal Mechanisms
479
Delivering Impact
487
34 Planning and Executing the Book
493
35 Working with Print and Online Journalism
506
36 Working with the Broadcast Media
519
37 Crafting Strategic Events to Strengthen Research Outputs and Disseminate Results
536
38 Using Graphics in Print and Presentations
547
Beyond the Current Project
557
A Pro Vice Chancellors Perspective
565
40 Using Research Process to Improve Research Practice
581
41 Moving On?
591
The Qualities of Successful Research Management
604
Index
617
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About the author (2015)

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist through Dingwall Enterprises Ltd and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He draws on more than forty years’ experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe’s leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. Robert has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2002 and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2014. He was awarded the 2019 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community by the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

Mary McDonnell is executive director and chief operating officer of the Social Science Research Council and leads the Council’s capacity strengthening, fellowships, and Asia-focused work. McDonnell has a PhD in history and master’s degrees in both international affairs and journalism from Columbia University. She worked as a journalist covering Asian and Middle Eastern affairs before joining the Council full time in 1986, where she became founding director of the Abe Fellowship and Vietnam Programs. She is currently leading a decade-long, qualitative and quantitative assessment of population health in rural Vietnam. McDonnell chairs the Board of Trustees of the School for Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University and serves on the advisory board of the Mobilising the Humanities project of the British Council. She is also a founding member of the board of a new NGO, Resources for Health Equity.

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