QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

e-Grad School

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

(ATN-PPRM)

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT PLAN

Instructor: Paige Maguire Daniel Joseph Costello

Student Number: n7252854 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: costello_daniel@yahoo.com

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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 7

F. RM funding obligations 7

G. Staffing and supervisory management 8

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) Direct Salary In direct Costs Charge out Rate

Name (with 26.9375 % Multiplier (1.6 )
Oncosts)
Research Fellow 28,443 62,288 62,288
QUT Level C -01 (38,930)
Postdoctoral fellow 27,071.00 59,283 59,283
Level B -01 (37,052.00)
PhD student 14,220 31,141 31,141
(19,463.00)
Research assistant 17,073.00 37,389 37,389
(junior level 1) (23,368.00)
Colleague N.A. N.A. N.A.
collaborator
Sub-totals: 86,808.00 190,101 190,101
(118,813)
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)

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

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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 P
NISO
Proposal
begins
Map all
participant
sub-
projects
Draft C
contracts
Review
team
research
data and
collection
1st Team
research
confer
NISO P
Proposal
Draft 1
Senior
Faculty
Referral 1
2nd Team
research
conf.
NISO P
Proposal
Draft 2
Senior
Faculty
Referral 2
3rd Team
research
conf.
Submit P
Final NISO
Proposal
with QUT
Pre-
approval

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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
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 $
Report
50% NISO $
Grant
Student
Seminar

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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
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.

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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
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

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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
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

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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
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

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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
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

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 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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