Templates, Presentations, and Other Resources

Some helpful resources for the early stages of international research administration:

• Contacts Checklist | Form for creating a global operations network at your institution. This will help you identify who at your institution to contact for various international issues that you may encounter when working on global research projects.
• Resources from the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Support Services and example of its on-campus Global Administrators Working Group.
• Proposal Checklist – Things to Consider | Questions for researchers and their research administrators to consider at the very beginning of the proposal process.
• Proposal Development Worksheet – Needs Assessment and Strategy | This will help research administrators extract additional needed information from their researchers, as well as familiarize researchers with unique needs for their global projects. This builds on the checklist above.
• Foreign Location Worksheet | This resource gives those already familiar with a foreign location space to share their direct knowledge to help future projects and other institutions.
• Researcher Site Visit Checklist | This checklist will provide your researchers with a useful template for bringing information back to you from an initial foreign site visit.
• Budget Development Checklist | Useful checklist and resource for entities working on U.S. federal grants. Sourced from the University of Washington’s International Projects Start-Up Guide.
• International Budget Checklist | This checklist was created to assist with international budget considerations. It is not all-inclusive and not everything may be applicable to all projects.
• International Projects Start-Up Guide from the University of Washington.
• Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration: Summary of a Workshop from the National Academies Press / National Academy of Sciences, ©2011.
• Culture Matters: International Research Collaboration in a Changing World | Workshop summary publication from the National Academy of Sciences, ©2014.
• Globalizing University Research: Innovation, Collaboration, and Competition | Resource on encouraging collaboration between offices on campus to more effectively internationalize an institution’s research portfolio by Karen Holbrook and Kiki Caruson, ©2017.
• Ten Ways to Energize Research Collaborations | White paper prepared by the Berkeley Research Group.
• International Awards from Both Sides of the Table | Presentation from the 2016 SRA-I Annual Meeting by Marianne Hassan, Khalifa University.
• How Do You as Research Administrator Meet the Challenge of Global Research and Research Funding | Presentation on cultural intelligence and building intercultural competencies from the 2017 SRA-I International and Canadian Section Meeting by Birte Lundgreen and Karen Slej, Copenhagen Business School.
• Global Research Practices: Making Them Work | Good presentation on best practices within international partnerships from a multinational point of view. Presentation from the 2017 SRA-I Annual Meeting by Silke Blohm, SOAS University of London, Susan Gasson, Queensland University of Technology, and Sandra Nordahl, San Diego State University Research Foundation.
• Challenges and Strategies for Intercultural Communication and Dynamics | Presentation on intercultural communication from the 2017 SRA-I Annual Meeting by Marjorie Piechowski, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Current Trends in Strategic International Partnerships | Presentation from Matthias Kuder, of Freie Universität Berlin, on identifying and forming strategic international partnerships.
• International Activity Checklist from the University of Pennsylvania.
• International Site Visit Checklist from the University of Pennsylvania.