Research Management Cell

Introduction

A research management cell is a vital part of the Central Department of Education, promoting and facilitating research activities, creating awareness about opportunities, funding, and collaborations, and organizing seminars and workshops. The research management cell offers administrative and logistical support to researchers, assisting with proposal writing, budget preparation, ethical clearances, and regulatory compliance, while also disseminating information about funding agencies and fellowships.

The cell oversees research projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and ethical standards, and facilitates collaboration with other academic institutions, and organizations through strategic partnerships. The research management cell manages research infrastructure, ensuring optimal utilization and accessibility for researchers while protecting intellectual property rights, guiding patent applications, technology transfers, and commercialization opportunities.

The cell manages research data effectively through policies and strategies, while promoting findings through various channels to enhance the institution's visibility and impact. The research management cell plays a crucial role in the development and implementation of educational research policies, ensuring ethical conduct, quality assurance, and alignment with national and international research standards.

Human Resource Plan Under RMC

The research management cell serves as a central hub for educational institution research activities, promoting innovative and impactful research within a conducive environment. It requires a human resource management plan to provide quality services. The research management cell in an educational institution is not directly responsible for human resource planning, but rather for facilitating and supporting research activities, promoting collaborations, and managing research-related infrastructure.

Human resource planning is typically handled by a separate department within an institution, but there may be indirect connections between research management cell for HR planning with the coordination of this department.

1. Research members selection: The research management cell collaborates with this department to nominate research members, including associates, assistants, and project fellows, based on the secured research projects or grants.
2. Research capacity building: The research management cell collaborates with the department to identify areas requiring additional research expertise, plan faculty recruitment, and implement capacity-building initiatives to enhance the institution's research capabilities.
3. Research performance evaluation: The research management cell provides data on research productivity, publications, and project outcomes to the department for performance appraisals, promotions, and incentive schemes.
4. Resource allocation: The research management cell collaborates with the department to allocate sufficient human resources to research projects, laboratories, or centers, based on the institution's research priorities and funding availability.
5. Policy development: The research management cell can offer recommendations to the department on policies concerning research staff appointments, intellectual property rights, research ethics, and research-related leaves and sabbaticals.

The research management cell can collaborate on research-related human resource planning, supporting the institution's overall research goals and objectives, while HR handles core functions.

Executive Committee of Research Management Cell

1. Prof. Dr. Eka Ratna Acharya          – Coordinator

2. Dr. Bed Prasad Dhakal                   – Member

3. Dr. Dinesh Ghimire                        – Member

4. Dr. Hari Maya Sharma                   – Member

5. Dr. Kamal Prasad Koirala              – Member

6. Dr. Narayan Prasad Timlsena         – Member

7. Mr. Guru Prasad Poudel                 – Member