Research Services

The following research services information is compiled for all faculty in support of all research endeavors. The following information will be familiar to many but also has some useful links and new details for even the most senior faculty members.

College & University Research Services & Resources

The Office of Research and Partnerships (ORP), previously known as the Office of Research Innovation and Impact, provides a list of services on their about page: https://research.arizona.edu/about. In the College of Information Science, these services are mirrored at the college level. That is, we direct everyone to ORP where possible, we provide specialized services for the college where ORP cannot. The associate dean for research (ADR), Bryan Heidorn (heidorn@arizona.edu), and the director of research administration, Ben Beshaw (beshaw@arizona.edu), can help you directly with research needs or connect you with people across campus who can help you submit your proposals and conduct your research. Please reach out to the research team; email is easiest and meetings take place on Zoom most primarily given the distributed nature of many of our employees.

Deadlines

The college research admin team requires notification of intent to submit at least one month prior to the sponsor’s deadline. Some agencies issue a call for proposals less than one month in advance of the due date. In those cases, notify the college research admin as soon as possible. This notification should include a link to the solicitation, the requested budget items, the period of performance dates and an identification of any subawards. Proposal materials, including the budget, budget justification and a project summary (along with the same from sub-awardees) are required for internal routing in UAccess Research (UAR) at least two or three weeks before the deadline. After the UAR proposal has been routed to and approved by all units, university research administration offices require at least 10 days before your funder’s deadlines to review your material to meet federal and state requirements.  Full sponsor portal packages (such as Research.gov, Grants.gov, and eRA) must be finalized and released to the university’s Sponsored Projects team a minimum of three full business days before the deadline to guarantee submission. Please be sure that you have completed your Conflict of Interest paperwork well ahead of time (https://edisclosure.arizona.edu/).

Institutional Research Board

If the sponsor requires Institutional Review Board certification, this may require an additional month, depending on the IRB committee meeting times (https://research.arizona.edu/compliance-public/human-subjects-protection-program). If you are not doing biomedical research, the certification is not as difficult as it first appears on the university website. If you do exempt or non-exempt human subjects research, use the eIRB submission system. In most cases, InfoSci faculty need to complete both forms (title, PI, funder, etc.) for Department Review Attestation and Scientific/Scholarly Review Attestation.  https://research.arizona.edu/compliance/human-subjects-protection-program/HSPP-form/forms-index. These can be signed by the ADR upon review of your protocol. 

Finding Funding Opportunities & Seed Grants

Engaging in Proposal Development & Submission

  • The research team can help with proposal development. For larger grants ($1M+ in external funds) the ORP can help with identifying partners inside and outside of the university.
  • The ADR can help:
    • Identify funding sources, evaluating the match between the funder and proposal
    • Negotiate with other colleges
    • Put together a set of mock reviewers
  • Ben Beshaw and his team can help with:
    • Internal proposal preparation and routing via Kuali/UAccess Research (UAR)
    • Developing a budget and budget justification
    • Package support (Research.gov/Grants.gov)

Other Award Services Provided by InfoSci Research Services

  • Project administration
  • Stewardship, compliance and safety services
  • The ADR can serve as the college compliance manager where there are conflicts of interest, including faculty-owned corporations and IP
  • Best practices training
  • The ORP and ADR run grant writing workshops regularly
  • Identify internal and external collaborations
  • Identify Industry and public partnerships
  • Institutes, museums and specialized facility use
  • Protection of university inventions through intellectual property
  • Commercialization of university inventions and technologies to the marketplace
  • Start-ups and tech talent

Additionally, research communications and marketing: our marketing and communications team, led by Simmons Buntin, director of marketing and commuications (sbuntin@arizona.edu), can help with communications about your projects, including college press releases, research stories and profiles, and coordination with university, local and national news media.