Accountability:The Director for Research,Publication,and Ethics Directorate is Accountable to Vice President for Academic, Research, Technology Transfer and Community Service.
Duties and responsibilities:
The director shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
- Ensures proper implementation and administration of research and project funds.
- Plans, organizes, and leads colleges/schools/centers research activities.
- Develops, recommends and implements policies and administrative procedures for college/institute/centers’ research activities.
- Monitors the proper implementation of policies, rules and regulations for colleges/schools/centers research activities.
- Establishes laboratories for plant and animal biotechnology and Molecular biology research center
- Strengths research centers to become standardized level
- Ensures the establishment of research work stations and supervises their activities
- Ensures and supervises the establishment of panel of experts for external funds/grants.
- Facilitates the development of interdisciplinary research programs in consultation with colleges/schools/centers/units concerned.
- Coordinates internal and external assistance for research projects and allocates resources in consultation with the concerned bodies.
- Develops research strategic plan.
- Identifies, prioritizes and facilitates the implementation of researches that have national and regional importance.
- Develops plans, sets priorities for establishment of research laboratories and facilities and oversees the implementation of plans.
- Promotes the development of appropriate incentive schemes in the university for researchers.
- Evaluates existing research capacity and identifies gaps and priority areas for capacity building.
- Follows up the formulation of the research coordination structure of the University,
- Monitors implementation of plans for research capacity building.
- Leads the identification of research thematic areas in consultation with concerned bodies.
- Coordinates, registers, monitors and follows up colleges/schools/centers research and related activities.
- Prepares periodic reports on research activities in all colleges and schools.
- Prepares and Disseminates college/school research outputs.
- Facilitates the publication of university-based books, journals, newsletters, proceedings, abstracts.
- Supports PhD and selected self-sponsored MA/MSc researches from each program.
- Link PhD and MA/MSc thematic researches with grants and external funding.
- Charters duties and responsibilities to coordination offices under its auspices.
- Ensures the organization of annual research symposia, seminars and conferences.
- Ensures the linkage of completed research outputs with RTTCS Coordinators and other coordinators under his supervision.
- Oversees workload, incentives and recognitions for researchers are provided according to this guideline.
- Oversees breaches and misconducts are addressed based on the guideline,
- Ensures that completed research results are communicated to the university community. the wider community, the funding organization and stakeholders through all possible means of communication: posters, leaflets, refereed journals, workshops, conferences/symposia, seminars.
- Ensures that published research results are made available to potential users in the university’s libraries, website, research database and distribution of hardcopies to the offices of concerned stakeholders.
- Encourages the researchers to disseminate the research findings to the concerned stakeholders, in national and international workshops, symposia and so on.
- Encourages the publication of research findings in national and international reputable journals and acknowledges researchers in the university website, notice boards and billboards for their contributions through publication and dissemination.
- Documents research outputs, articles, books, proceedings, abstracts and newsletters published by Mekdela Amba University and the University staffs.
- Facilitates the publication of university-based journals and newsletters.
- Provides incentives for research outputs published in reputable journals.
- Supervises the regularity of journal publications and facilitates journal accreditation process.
- Evaluates the performance of journal and ethical board members.
- Prepares roles and responsibilities of editorial board members of AMU journals.
- Assigns editorial board members based on competition.
- Identify priority research areas and sources of funding for their respective center.
- Develop plans to enhance the research capacities of the center.
- Identify research thematic areas in consultation with key-stakeholders.
- Update data using the university Research Data Base regularly.
- Make sure workload, incentives and recognitions for researchers are provided according to this guideline.
- Performs other related duties provided by the Vice President.