INNOVATION ACADEMY: THE IRIS RESEARCH MENTORING SERIES

Human capital is the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship. And just like in other professions, establishing a respectable and reputable career as an academic researcher entails personal and professional investment. In addition to widening a network of quality peers, sharpening your skills and competencies in written as well as oral communication is important if one’s research has to make impact on a broad range of readers or audience. Effective writing that is valued by your students and institutional colleagues as well as professional peer group establishes you as an independent investigator with your own ideas and solid professional research goals.

You can advance in your career in academic research by developing high grade scientific and technical writing skills that result in having a strong publication record with a reasonable number of first-author publications.

Go beyond what is expected. Know what writing and oral communication metrics of excellence guide your counterparts in universities from other countries. Reinforce your skills, set yourself apart, increase your research productivity, and join the global research community in earnestly building and contributing your own blocks of knowledge.

The Institutes for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship (The IRIS), in partnership and co-hosted by regional public and private universities, offers Research Mentoring Workshops on Writing, Preparing, and Publishing Scientific / Scholarly Papers in Indexed Journals and Writing a Competitive Grant Proposal.

WRITING, PREPARING AND PUBLISHING SCIENTIFIC AND SCHOLARLY
PAPERS IN INDEXED JOURNALS

• Target Audience: First Stage Researchers/Early career researchers/Research Faculty (Instructors/Assistant Professors/Associate Professors)/Graduate Students
  
• This full-day workshop provides participants with the rules of thumb and nuts-and-bolts in writing high quality scientific manuscripts for publication in indexed journals. Facilitated by leading researchers and scientists with extensive experience and success in publishing in indexed journals, the workshop will take participants through the most critical steps of writing research papers from inception to final publication.
  
  
This writing program is intended for junior faculty and researchers, particularly in the STEM and Arts/Humanities disciplines. Participants must possess at least an MS/MA degree, or is currently undergoing their degree completion. Participants will work in groups of three/four and get the chance to review and critique a fictitious manuscript.

WRITING A COMPETITIVE GRANT PROPOSAL

• Target Audience: Established Researchers/Leading Researchers with desired preference to those with previous and completed research grants
  
• This two-day workshop provides participants with an introduction to writing competitive grant proposals. Facilitated by leading researchers and scientists with extensive experience in all aspects of grant applications and funding, participants will be provided with valuable tools necessary for actively and successfully pursuing funding for research.
  
  
This grant writing program is intended for junior and senior faculty and researchers, particularly in the STEM and the Arts/Humanities disciplines. Participants must possess an MS/MA or PhD. Participants will work in groups of three/four and write a short grant proposal for a fictitious funding agency. Participants will also get the chance to review a grant proposal.

OTHER WORKSHOP TOPICS

• Impact Assessment of RDE Projects
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Research, Innovation and Extension Grants
  
• Financial Management of Research, Innovation and Extension Grants
  
• Industry 4.0 Readiness
  
• Research Communication Campaigns and Disseminating Research Findings
  
• Research Utilization and Research Commercialization
  
• How to setup a Technology Incubator in the University
  
• How to setup Research Grants Office in the University
  
• How to setup Intellectual Property Office in the University
  
• What are the Requirements of Grant-giving agencies (Foreign and National)
  
  
Additional topics may be discussed depending on the University/ Principal Researcher’s needs.

CONTACT INFORMATION
To know more about the IRIS Research Mentoring Courses, send us an email at irishubedu@gmail.com with a subject line “RESEARCH MENTORING – Name of your HEI”