This post is partly based on experience with Research Consulting’s Research Contracts Benchmarking Exercise - if you haven’t already you should read the report here.
This article should be posted to every University and other contract writing organization in the world. I concentrate on contracts and have for forty years, and I am training a highly competent attorney to be my successor. I fully expect that this will be a multi-year project to bring her to the level I have gotten to. That should only be expected, as the amount of knowledge required for a contract writer in the Research arena is staggering. The jargon alone is incredible-- MTA, DUA, CTA, subaward, consortium, vendor, "completion date," -- and the regulatory underpinnings are equally daunting -- Human Subjects, Animal Welfare, GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA, Radiation Safety, Community Right to Know-- again only a bare few of the issues.
This article should be posted to every University and other contract writing organization in the world. I concentrate on contracts and have for forty years, and I am training a highly competent attorney to be my successor. I fully expect that this will be a multi-year project to bring her to the level I have gotten to. That should only be expected, as the amount of knowledge required for a contract writer in the Research arena is staggering. The jargon alone is incredible-- MTA, DUA, CTA, subaward, consortium, vendor, "completion date," -- and the regulatory underpinnings are equally daunting -- Human Subjects, Animal Welfare, GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA, Radiation Safety, Community Right to Know-- again only a bare few of the issues.