Individual and institutional predictors of faculty mentoring undergraduate researchers: Findings from a multi-institutional research collaboration

From Institutional Research to Information Management: A changing paradigm for institutional researchers in higher education

Globalisation has altered the nature and complexity of the operating environment for higher education. Universities, in turn, have needed to become even more complex organisations than they had previously been – needing to become increasingly corporate in their approaches and increasingly entrepreneurial in outlook. One aspect of the changes that are occurring in universities concern the growin...

The Relationship of Institutional Planning and Institutional Research to Faculty Development

A Social Capital Perspective on the Mentoring of Undergraduate Life Science Researchers: An Empirical Study of Undergraduate–Postgraduate–Faculty Triads

Undergraduate researchers at research universities are often mentored by graduate students or postdoctoral researchers (referred to collectively as "postgraduates") and faculty, creating a mentoring triad structure. Triads differ based on whether the undergraduate, postgraduate, and faculty member interact with one another about the undergraduate's research. Using a social capital theory framew...

Improvements in thoracic surgery outcomes: a multi-institutional collaboration study

BACKGROUND Treatment protocols (including those for thoracic surgery) tend to be customized for individual hospitals. Procedural standardization is required to improve surgical tasks and patient outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an initiative to standardize surgical tasks for efficient and safe performance. METHODS Hospitals associated with the Division of Chest Surgery of...

RMS: a platform for managing cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional research project collaboration

BACKGROUND Cross-institutional cross-disciplinary collaboration has become a trend as researchers move toward building more productive and innovative teams for scientific research. Research collaboration is significantly changing the organizational structure and strategies used in the clinical and translational science domain. However, due to the obstacles of diverse administrative structures, ...