My office is called the Research Office, with functions much as at
Medical College of Ohio, except:

>                 1)  Pre- and Post-award sponsored programs activities
>                         (we monitor all expenditures from grants, but
>                         grants accounting, the number crunching, is
>                         handled by institutional accounting)
 We are responsible for management but not financial accounting
>                 2)  Research Regulatory Compliance (IRB, IACUC, Recombinant
>                         DNA, Scientific Misconduct, Chemical and Biological
>                         Hazards, conflict-of-interest)
 Happily all of this is not such an industry here.
>                 3)  Development and implementation of institutional
>                         research policy
>                 4)  Technology Transfer
>

I have a considerable role in policy and development for graduate
education, without many operational responsibilities.

Job titles differ greatly over here...

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John Farrant, Deputy Registrar, The University of Sussex, Sussex House, Falmer,
Brighton, BN1 9RH,  UK.  Tel:   +44  273 678609 (switchboard:  606755).
e-mail: xxxxxx@sussex.ac.uk