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Mailing address:
PO Box 786
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Physical
Address
2400 E. Hartford Avenue
Enderis Hall 10th
and 11th Floors
Milwaukee WI 53211
PHONE:
414-229-4851
Fax: 414-229-5311
Email: ssw@uwm.edu |
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Research
Support and Development Office
The mission of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare’s
Research Support and Development Office is to facilitate the research
endeavors of the school’s faculty and research scholars.
The main objectives of the office are to promote grant proposal
submissions, productivity and compliance and also to reduce the
barriers to research.
The
School’s Research Support and Development Office working
together with UWM’s central Research Services and Administration
office, UWM Office of Development and other university entities
can provide the following to the school’s faculty and research
scholars:
1) Facilitating the acquisition of research awards (Pre-award):
- Identifying
appropriate funding opportunities (Federal, State, Community,
Corporate, Private Foundations, etc.)
- Providing
guidance, assistance, tools and procedures for the submission
of grant and contract proposals. This includes but is not
limited to providing:
- Budget
templates, development of budgets and reviewing of budgets;
- Current
salaries, fringe benefits rates, indirect rates, tuition,
and standard expenses;
- Estimates
of salary and rate increases;
- Approval
of non-standard indirect rates;
- Standard
frequently used forms and figures;
- Assistance
with investigator IRB forms, T-forms, etc.
- Best
practices related to clinical trial agreements and their
related budgets.
- Advice
on regulations and compliance.
- Providing
notices of training opportunities for research related items
such as grant development, IRB issues, statistician services,
patient recruitment retention, etc.
- Providing
guidance in bringing consulting dollars through the university.
2)
Managing of grants and contracts (Post-Award):
- Providing
oversight to avoid audits, deficits and non-compliance. This
assistance includes but is not limited to:
- Tracking
accounts and creating procedures and systems to track
project accounts;
- Assisting
with backstop requests and budget revisions;
- Tracking
employee FTEs across projects;
- Aiding
with PA form revisions;
- Negotiating
and managing subcontracts;
- Aiding
with effort reporting & closing out accounts;
- Initiating
rollover of funds and no-cost extensions,
- Providing
financial/resources data needed for project reports, annual
reports, promotional materials, and departmental/school/campus/System
requests for information and data concerning the externally
funded research and projects conducted at HBSSW.
3) Assisting with planning:
- Assisting
in strategic planning of research centers and projects.
- Assisting
with the clarification, implementation and development of
research project policies and procedures.
- Developing
best practices and economies of scale in regards to research
administration.
- Assisting
in showcasing the school’s research.
- Assisting
in reducing barriers to research.
- Assisting
with negotiations with the university’s central Research
Services and Administration Office, as well as federal, public,
and private funding agencies around potential activities.
For
more information please contact:
Heidi Janzen
Director of Research Support and Development
For the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
1033
Enderis Hall
(414) 229-4766
heidij@uwm.edu
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