Highlighted resources
Check your ASU college or school for specialized resources for faculty, staff, and student researchers in your field. Most ASU colleges have a research tab at the top of their website.
Learn soft and hard skills
Acquire skills related to research at a time and place that works best for you through online on-demand resources. ASU offers many options for professional development within the research space.
Research Academy Resources
Optional on-demand resources are available for ASU researchers.
Grants, research, and sponsored projects
Grants, research, and sponsored projects (GRASP), ASU’s annual research-focused conference, is focused on connecting novice and tenured researchers to services, resources, and best practices in the research space. This online library of GRASP sessions provides introductions to services and best practices from expert support staff. Topics include but are not limited to, proposal development, data management, evaluation planning, research computing, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Topics apply to all fields.
Microlearning options
A catalog of research-focused resources that can each be completed in under a half hour. Self-subscribe to any course for immediate access to materials that fit your research goals.
DIY training
Actionable tips for creating in-person, online or hybrid training opportunities.
Business collaboration 101
Tips and tools on how to create one-of-a-kind partnerships with organizations.
Craft your National Institutes of Health proposal
National Institutes of Health proposal writing best practices.
Craft your National Science Foundation proposal
National Science Foundation proposal writing best practices.
ERA funding proposal budgets
Learn why certain costs are categorized in an ERA budget and other budget essentials.
Facilities and administrative rates
Research Operations resources and training bites for F&A rate topics.
Knowledge Enterprise quality training
KE staff quality practices to increase compliance and performance.
Overview of research administration
Learn and navigate basic research administration activities and topics at ASU.
Operations project manager onboarding toolkit
Best practices for Workfront, the project management information system used by the Project Management Office.
The RIO and research misconduct
Foster a research environment that encourages the responsible conduct of research.
Qualtrics
How to create, access, and manage your free ASU Qualtrics account and create surveys on the platform.
Space survey training
COMING SOON! Essentials for space coordinators. A select few ASU staff are nominated for this role.
Learn how to manage research space.
Learn how to manage non-research space.
Sponsored award leadership onboarding
The lead on a funded research project or program who is integral in seeking funding, proposal writing, and research activities.
Learn about the responsibilities of a sponsored award leader.
Student research
Student-focused tips on how to join the ASU research community and gain research experience. Staff and faculty are also encouraged to review these resources for student mentoring purposes
Why participate in a research study?
Discover the impact of participating in a study and how to get involved!
LinkedIn Learning
ASU provides LinkedIn Learning accounts for all University employees (faculty, staff, student workers) through Workday. Use LinkedIn Learning to develop soft skills such as communication tactics, time management, and leadership skills, or stay up to date with hard skills such as learning new technology tools or upgrading existing programs. Browse for topics aligned with your interests and needs, or start with a curated playlist.
Students who are not student workers may be able to access these playlists from personal LinkedIn accounts. Please check your LinkedIn account type to see if it is eligible for LinkedIn Learning.
CITI training webinars
ASU collaborates with the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) to provide a library of current topics important to researchers at any level.
Various recorded optional webinars are available to continue your professional development in the research space. New webinars are added quarterly.
Researchers may want to start with these webinar options:
- Open access publishing.
- AI and human subjects protection.
- Importance of peer review and data validation in research.
- Mentoring learners and new faculty engaged in the doctoral quest.
- Effectively communicating research results to a nonscientific audience.
Research support staff may want to start with these webinar options:
- Working with your Institutional Review Board.
- Tips for research administrators: Working with faculty and research teams.
- How to effectively manage a research administration team.
- Supervision for supervisors.
- Process improvement and research administration.
- In this together: Meaningful community engagement in research.
Enterprise Research Administration
ASU’s Enterprise Research Administration system provides an integrated platform for the administration of research and sponsored projects at ASU. ERA is most commonly used by researchers (including student researchers working on sponsored projects), RAs, and KE ORSPA staff.
Development and submission of proposals, management of awards, and integrity and assurance activities are managed in this one system, allowing for efficient and effective support of our investigators.
This ERA tour will show you common places where researchers and research support staff need to complete tasks, as well as introduce help tools available on the site to assist you in completing activities.