Role and Functions of ISNC-RICr

• Work as the centralized unit for all research activities of the institution

• It is run by the director of research center with the members of research centers executive team (comprising members from different programs’) will govern the day-to-day activities of research at the institution level and report to the Dean of the institution.

• Plan and conduct day-to-day research governance activities of the institution.

• Implement and monitor the operational plan of institutional research strategic plan.

• Recommend annual budget to make research strategic plan operational.

• Receive and process research project approval, registration, and monitoring.

• Register (internal/external) research projects conducted in the institution.

• Organize and conduct institutional review board meetings.

• Collect, organize and archive the institution’s research and scholarly activity data.

• Appraise and report the institution’s research activities to the research committee and the faculty board through an annual report.

• Support the ad hoc committee to handle research misconduct.

• Receive the request of external researchers and recommend the permission to conduct research.

• Scrutinize potential research collaboration to make appropriate memorandum of understanding recommendations to the Dean.

• Organize and conduct extra-curricular research courses.

• Organize and conduct Ibn Sina National College-Annual Scientific Conference.

• Annually audit the effective functioning of the different units (PRTs) related to the research center.