THE ROLES OF A RESEARCH ADMINISTRATOR AT A UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This article reveals research management as a complex, constantly changingprocess faced with numerous challenges. It also addresses the importance of a researchadministrator in the areas of research management and research administration,underscoring the research administrator’s impact on the research culture in theinstitution. There is an ongoing debate on how to administer research in the contextof institutional management of growing complexity, changing economic conditionsand increasing political influence on research. The article emphasizes that the mainroles of the research administrator are helping faculties carry out research and representationof university’s interests. However, the conditions for the implementationof research vary, new challenges and opportunities continually arise, and thus thecompetences of the research administrator must change to reflect these transformations:he/she must take on the roles of manager, lawyer, financier, or quasiresearcher.

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