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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ATHE Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and ATHE Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ATHE Ltd.
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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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ATHE Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. ATHE Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Research Impact and Engagement Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between research impact, research outputs, and engagement, including their definitions and how they relate to each other.
- Understand the implications of not developing research impact and engagement, including the potential loss of funding and reputational damage.
- Understand how to communicate research outputs effectively to different audiences.
- Understand how to engage audiences through engagement activities, such as public lectures and workshops.
- Understand how to evaluate the resultant impact of research, including the use of metrics and case studies.
Supporting Research Culture Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of a healthy research culture, including openness, collaboration, and ethical behaviour.
- Understand the regulatory framework for research, including ethical guidelines and data protection regulations.
- Understand the importance of researcher development, including training and mentoring opportunities.
- Understand your own role in supporting a healthy research culture, including promoting ethical behaviour and encouraging collaboration.
Supporting Research Project and Portfolio Management Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a business case, research project and/or research portfolio, including their purpose and structure
- Understand the different elements of a research project/portfolio, such as planning, execution, and reporting, and your role in supporting colleagues throughout these stages
- Understand the role that audit and reporting play in research projects and research portfolios, including compliance requirements and performance monitoring
Understanding Research Funding Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a costing for a funding proposal, including identifying all relevant costs and estimating their value accurately.
- Understand the different strategies that can be used to price a research proposal, including full economic costing and marginal costing.
- Understand the importance of cost recovery for research, including the need to cover overheads and generate a surplus for reinvestment.
- Understand how to support colleagues in the costing process, including providing guidance on costing methodologies and helping them to identify relevant costs.
Understanding Research Policy Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the broad research policy for a named country, including its priorities and funding mechanisms.
- Understand the funding models available for research in a named country, including government grants and private investment.
- Understand the implications of relevant research policies for their organisation or institution, including funding opportunities and compliance requirements.
- Understand how to identify information relevant to their organisation or institution regarding research policy.
- Understand how to disseminate information relevant to their organisation or institution regarding research policy.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Identify and recommend sources of funding for selected research and development topics
- Standard
Provide research and analysis of alternative investments support for portfolio management activities
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 61 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Research Support Associate
This work can lead to a technical specialist role, a project lead role, or a research operations management role.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ATHE Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Research Impact and EngagementSupporting Research CultureSupporting Research Project and Portfolio ManagementUnderstanding Research FundingUnderstanding Research Policy
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Supporting Research Project and Portfolio Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Understanding Research Policy” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Research Impact and Engagement” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Research Impact and Engagement, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers research impact, outputs, and engagement, defining each concept and their interrelationships. Learners will understand the consequences of neglecting impact development and learn methods to communicate research and evaluate engagement outcomes.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ATHE Level 3 Certificate in Research Management: Foundation
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Research Impact and Engagement
- Supporting Research Culture
- Supporting Research Project and Portfolio Management
- Understanding Research Funding
- Understanding Research Policy
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