Table of Contents

SECTION I: GETTING STARTED
Preparing for a Research Career - David Stone and Robert Gutierrez
Planning and Project Management - Bob Anderson
Responding to a Call - Rajika Bhandari and Jonah Kokodyniak
Getting Funded for the First Time - Daniella Sarnoff
Winning Large Grants - Paul Martin
Developing a Project and Choosing a Funder - Amarjit Kaur
SECTION II: DEVELOPING THE PROPOSAL
Developing and Managing Budgets - John Koprowski
Supporting Management with Technology - Zachary Zinn
Incorporating Gender and Diversity - Lut Mergaert and Maxime Forest
Securing Access - Oscar Salemink
Considering Ethics for Social Science Research - Michelle McGinn
Managing Researcher Safety - Desmond Arias
SECTION III: GETTING ORGANIZED
Organizing and Managing Research - Josh DeWind
Engaging the University Administration - Mike Saks
Collaborating Across Disciplines - Michael Davis
Developing and Executing Cross-National Projects - Ivy Bourgeault, Yvonne James and Corinne Packer
SECTION IV: MANAGING IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS
Succeeding in a European Research Environment: Eleven Lessons from Denmark - Maja Horst and Alan Irwin
Negotiating in a US University Environment - Barbara Stallings
Managing Research in a Developing Country - Hy Van Luong
Promoting Research and Development in Large Organisations - Michael Hewitt
Working Outside Universities - Josefina Card
Managing the Private-Sector Research Project - Sam Ladner
SECTION V: MANAGING THE PEOPLE
Promoting Teamwork, from Within and from Afar - Mark VanLandingham
Enacting Leadership in Research Programmes - Graeme Currie
Surviving and Progressing as a Research Fellow - Sarah Dyer and Kate Weiner
Making Best Use of Research Administrators - Sophie Dale-Black
Hiring, Integrating and Removing Team Members - Erin Johnson
Mentoring, Appraising, Ensuring Professional Development and Evaluating Performance - Judith Tanur
SECTION VI: PLANNING FOR IMPACT
Achieving an Impact - Caitlin Porter and Michael Hewitt
Exchanging Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Lisa Mooney
Marketing the Team - Neil Robinson
Planning for Publications - Mary-Lea Awanohara
Mobilizing and Disseminating Research Findings Through Informal Mechanisms - Anil Deolalikar
SECTION VII: DELIVERING IMPACT
Planning and Executing “the Book” - Frank Baldwin
Working with Print and Online Journalism - Charles Burress
Working with the Broadcast Media - Toby Murcott
Crafting Strategic Events to Strengthen Research Outputs and Disseminate Results - Nicole Restrick Levit
Using Graphics in Print and Presentations - Steve Kosslyn
SECTION VIII: BEYOND THE CURRENT PROJECT
Developing a Research Strategy at a Research Intensive University: A Pro Vice Chancellor’s Perspective - Teresa Rees
Using Research Process to Improve Research Practice - Jacqueline Williams Kaye
Moving on? - Barbara Czarniawska

About the Author

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist through Dingwall Enterprises Ltd and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. 

He draws on more than forty years’ experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe’s leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. 

Robert has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2002 and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2014. He was awarded the 2019 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community by the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Mary McDonnell is executive director and chief operating officer of the Social Science Research Council and leads the Council’s capacity strengthening, fellowships, and Asia-focused work. McDonnell has a PhD in history and master’s degrees in both international affairs and journalism from Columbia University. She worked as a journalist covering Asian and Middle Eastern affairs before joining the Council full time in 1986, where she became founding director of the Abe Fellowship and Vietnam Programs. She is currently leading a decade-long, qualitative and quantitative assessment of population health in rural Vietnam. McDonnell chairs the Board of Trustees of the School for Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University and serves on the advisory board of the Mobilising the Humanities project of the British Council. She is also a founding member of the board of a new NGO, Resources for Health Equity.

Reviews

"The SAGE Handbook of Research Management should prove to be a valuable guide to researchers, grant writing, developing proposals, and teamwork. It is recommended to academic and research libraries."
*American Reference Books Annual*

Wherever one is in the food-chain of research, one experiences frustrations, aspirations and determinations to secure change to enable what one sees as more effective and efficient  processes to deliver life-changing outcomes. Dingwall and McDonnell manage to combine a realism, ′there is no one toolkit′, with some useful guidance on the frameworks and framing which is required as a research community if we are to improve our chances of meeting our goals of advancing knowledge in the 21st Century.
*Sandra Dawson, Professor Emeritus*

Editors Dingwall and McDonnell are prominent researchers based, respectively, in the UK and US, who bring to the project collective expertise in higher education, administration, consulting, journalism, non-profit advocacy, and longitudinal research. Their experience gives them insight into the tensions and conflicting demands researchers in higher education face. The editors have gathered an international group of authors to discuss aspects of management across the research life cycle, with three main sections focused on starting, implementing, and disseminating research. The editors′ introduction and conclusion help readers understand the context and interplay of successful management for organizations, teams, and their leaders.
*W. Dressel, Princeton University Library*