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As the Division of Research, Innovation & Impact expands its services to University of Missouri researchers and scholars, the division’s Research Analytics team also is growing to provide research and sponsored projects reporting, analyses and strategic decision support for the MU community.

Headed by Director Hansa Magee, the team also includes three data analysts: Nitesh Singh, Vyvian Tran and Sabrina Woo.

Here are four facts about Research Analytics and the resources they offer MU researchers.

  1. The team offers several resources to the MU community, including routine reporting of research and sponsored data; providing data insights to leadership and stakeholders; faculty promotion and tenure data collection, education and dissemination; setting standards for MU reporting terminology, definitions and metrics usage; and competitive intelligence for MU researchers, which includes analysis of federal programs, national benchmarking and individualized opportunity queries to identify researchers. The team offers more information about the scope of their work on the division’s website.
     
  2. For MU researchers, the team can help improve proposals by training and educating investigators on available reporting to find collaborators, previously funded researchers in a certain area or by a certain sponsor, and summary data to include in a proposal that are descriptive of MU.
     
  3. The team’s competitive intelligence service provides three primary resources: federal program analysis, which are broad summaries of previously funded programs that can be national or MU-specific; national benchmarking that uses publicly available datasets and how MU is compared to other institutions; and individualized competitive intelligence in collaboration with the Strategic Proposal Development Service that uses MU data so possible researchers are identified for specific opportunities and targeted based on criteria such as past funding, demographics or research interests.
     
  4. MU faculty and staff may request access to the team’s monthly reports. As the team grows, they will start offering additional MU research support tools such as custom reports for each college, division or school, and custom reports for each investigator.

For more information, visit Research Analytics or email the team.