ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 5
ATHE Level 5 Certificate In Research Management (Canada)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits18
- Guided learning54 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units ATHE Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Developing New Funding SchemesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the existing funding portfolio and context and propose a new funding scheme
- Understand how to design and implement a new funding scheme
- Understand how to monitor and respond to the take up of a new funding scheme
Developing and Implementing Research Policy and StrategyReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between ‘policy’ and ‘strategy’
- Understand how to contribute to the development of policy and strategy
- Understand how to support the implementation of policy or strategy
Gender and Diversity in Research ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits and implications of considering gender and diversity in research and research management
- Assess progress towards the development of a diverse research culture
- Support organisational progress towards development of a diverse research culture
Identifying New Opportunities for FundingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the existing funding portfolio
- Identify new funding opportunities
- Understand how to position the organisation to respond to new funding opportunities
Managing Legal and Regulatory RequirementsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage compliance with research-related legal and regulatory requirements
- Understand how to assess and respond to new research-related legal and regulatory requirements
Managing and Supporting Development of a Project PortfolioReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key factors in developing a balanced project portfolio
- Understand the impact of full economic costing on the sustainability of research
- Monitor, identify and respond to financial risks arising from the project portfolio
Optimising Unit and Organisational EffectivenessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to optimised organisational performance
- Optimise the unit’s efficiency and effectiveness
Supporting the Development and Implementation of Organisational Systems and ProcessesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Support the organisation in developing and implementing new systems and processes
- Understand how to support colleagues to use organisational systems and processes
Understanding the International Research EnvironmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how different national and organisational systems impact on the management of international research projects
- Understand key issues for the organisation when setting up international projects
Working with Management InformationReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential and value of good quality management information
- Contribute to the production of good quality management information
- Use management information
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ATHE Level 5 Certificate In Research Management (Canada)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Developing New Funding Schemes
- Developing and Implementing Research Policy and Strategy
- Gender and Diversity in Research Management
- Identifying New Opportunities for Funding
- Managing Legal and Regulatory Requirements
- Managing and Supporting Development of a Project Portfolio
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.