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ORSP Services
The ORSP provides many services that focus on increasing research productivity among faculty and students,
including:

• Implementing the research, innovation and impact strategy.
• Managing and administering all aspects of university-funded initiatives to support research.
• Managing and facilitating student-centered research initiatives including the Undergraduate Research Fund.

• Promoting and managing Intellectual Property as well as facilitating filing and prosecution of patent applications by
ADU researchers.
• Planning and organizing the annual Undergraduate Research Competition.
• Administering faculty consultancy agreements with external organizations including industrial partners.

• Delivering research capacity building initiatives.
• Monitoring, tracking and reporting the research performance at Abu Dhabi University to a range of internal and
external stakeholders.
• Managing the life-cycle of external grants from application to approval, and provides post-award compliance analysis
and reporting.

• Overseeing the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Human Subjects activities.

IV. Research Support for Faculty:
Research initiatives provide faculty with funding to support research projects and a culture of research excellence at Abu
Dhabi University. These funding programs are an enabler for faculty to produce outputs aligned with the Leadership and
Research, Innovation and Impact promotion route in the faculty development framework. Research collaboration is also an
important KPI for the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Excellence Framework:
Internal
1. Research, Innovation and Impact Grant

The purpose of this grant is to provide seed funding to support faculty to conduct research in their area of expertise which
contributes to the University achieving its research and innovation strategic objectives outlined in our Research, Innovation
and Impact Strategy.

2. Teaching Scholarship and Institutional Effectiveness
Teaching Scholarship and Institutional Effectiveness grants provide funding to support faculty to conduct pedagogy
research focusing on student learning and success, and institutional effectiveness in terms of quality assurance and
enhancement to ensure the continuous improvement of student learning. External
Various opportunities prevail throughout the academic year which encompass external entities awarding ADU faculty
members with an award amount to conduct research. The awardees are selected based on originality, outstanding quality,
practicability, qualifications of the researchers, and the strength & relevance to the entity’s research agenda. The two most
notable funding initiative cycles are run annually by ASPIRE at the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC).
1. Abu Dhabi Award for Research Excellence (AARE)
2. Abu Dhabi Young Investigator Award (AYIA)

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