Obstetrics and Gynecology Department Research Support Framework

• This support is available for all faculty and includes grant review, protocol review, methods/analysis consultation, and HiREB support.
• Support should be used to establish funding and move to level 2 or 3 in the structure.
• Occasional NOT consistent support.
• If you need consistent (weekly) support, then funding/staff buyout needs to be discussed with Dept Administration.

• For early career researchers, when there is not enough funding to hire full time staff.
• When you reach this level, all department research support should be in the purchased time.
• You pay for all services in this category.
• Department services that are not purchased should be reserved for those who have not yet been successful in obtaining funding or require much less and more infrequent support.
• Within the purchased time, the research coordinator or assistant can carry out study or research program specific work, help prepare future grant submissions, manage ethics, manage study support, project management, conduct analyses, help prepare/submit manuscripts and other dissemination, order study supplies, attend group research meetings, manage communications and project progress with sponsors, write interim/progress/final reports, and help with overall management of research program, students, and staff.
• All the listed activities need to be accounted for in the buyout of time, and there should be no expectation of access to the employee’s time or services outside of the specified buyout.

• Faculty should be hiring their own full-time staff at this level – have achieved successful large-grant funding (e.g., CIHR Project Grant) and can build in staff time to budget.
• At this point, you can hire a coordinator or research assistant to help carryout study or research program specific work, help prepare future grant submissions, manage ethics, manage study support, project management, conduct analyses, help prepare/submit manuscripts and other dissemination, order study supplies, attend group research meetings, manage communications and project progress with sponsors, write interim/progress/final reports, and help with overall management of research program, students, and staff.
• At this level, you should not be using any of the department research support services beyond seeking help for troubleshooting issues that may come up that are beyond the scope of your team.
• In these cases, situations will be handled on a case-by-case basis, and we cannot promise that the research team will be able to find and support a solution.

Level 1B

• Project specific recovery time available to faculty without major research programs.
• For example, if you are involved in one or two industry sponsored studies, you can build in salary recovery for the department research team into the budget negotiations with the sponsor.
• This allows for the research team to provide oversight for recruitment, planning, ethics submissions, study launch, data management, reporting, and study closure.
• The Research Manager should be consulted in contract negotiations to ensure hours are budgeted accurately.