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What is ResearchMaster?
ResearchMaster Enterprise is the most comprehensive research management solution in the world. It helps you organise, administer, review and oversee research projects from inception to completion.
Use it to manage research information and processes.
Find out more about ResearchMaster modules:
Higher degree by research (HDR)
Keep track of the progress of your HDR students, from applications to milestones to outputs and examinations. Access information securely, from anywhere.
Costing and pricing
Cost out research projects effectively. Set standard costs and ensure any application accurately accounts for oft-overlooked line items in the budget, like facilities and consumables.
Ethics
Manage ethics applications. Track approvals, rejections and appeals. Use built-in logic and automated workflows to ensure the right processes are followed for the right projects.
Contracts
Link research contracts with projects, outputs, personnel, documentation and budgets. Manage standard clauses, variations and contract terms. Automate reminders.
Grants
Ensure accurate records and updated funding information. Keep track of requirements from major bodies and make accurate reports with live-updated data.
Quality Assessment
ResearchMaster’s data governance and management tools are perfectly placed to help you prepare for a data-driven, automated exercise in research quality assessment. Keep an eye out for our new quality assessment tool coming soon.
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