The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research
(The Research Office) provides leadership and services
to support UNH faculty, students, and staff in their research,
scholarship, and creative activities; facilitates cooperation
between UNH and the business community; and communicates
and promotes the breadth and depth of UNH research and
discovery, and resulting impacts within and beyond the University.

The Research Office accomplishes its mission of Advancing
Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities by
providing the essential infrastructure and resources to support a
dynamic and growing research program across all academic
disciplines of UNH.

Its Comprehensive Goal is to increase and support external
research funding and recognition of faculty and student excellence.

The Senior Vice Provost for Research (SVPR) reports to the
University's Provost (thus integrating research within the
academic mission and resources) and serves as a member of the
Provost‘s Council and the President‘s Cabinet.

Activities of the Research Office are guided by the
Report of the President's Blue Ribbon Panel on Research
and the goals and initiatives of the University‘s strategic plan,
Breaking Silos, Transforming Lives, Reimagining UNH – UNH 2020.

Additional guidance is provided by the UNH Research Council which
serves as an advisory body to the SVPR on matters pertaining to the
support and advancement of excellence in research, scholarship, and
creative activities at UNH. 

The Council provides a forum for communication and opportunities for
collaboration among the Research Office, the colleges and schools, the
research centers and institutes, and other key players in the UNH
research enterprise.

The Research Office is comprised of a central administrative
office and 6 service units. 

For descriptions of the service units and an organizational
chart, click on Organizational Structure at left.

The Research Office also serves as the "home" for the
New Hampshire EPSCoR program and provides oversight 
for a number of interdisciplinary Research Centers:

• Coastal and Ocean Technology Programs
  • Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center
  • The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS)
    Science Collaborative;
• Marine Program;
• Piscataqua Regional Estuaries Partnership (PREP); and
• New Hampshire Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant).

Strategic Working Groups were created in 2010 to provide guidance
to the SVPR on ways to improve and enhance the Research Office
activities to support the UNH research enterprise.

Stakeholders from the faculty, Research Office staff, and members
of the broader UNH and USNH communities, as appropriate, make up the membership.

The current working groups are:

• Research Development and Infrastructure Working Group
• IP/Tech Transfer/ Commercialization Working Group
• Finance & Administration Working Group
• Compliance & Risk Management Working Group
• Centers & Institutes Working Group

<sub>UNH is renowned for entrepreneurial
spirit, commitment to innovative
problem solving, and high
impact results.

You may be surprised at the depth
and diversity of scholarship
and research expertise at
NH’s land, sea, and
space grant university.</sub>

_{I invite you to explore this website
to celebrate our past successes
and seek opportunities to
engage with us in our future.}

_{Jan Nisbet, Ph.D.
Senior Vice Provost for Research}

Compliance
Area

Institutional Official
for UNH

Care and Use of
Vertebrate Animals

SVPR

Chemical Safety

SVPR

Environmental Health
and Safety

SVPR

Financial Conflict of
Interest in Research

SVPR

Institutional Biosafety

SVPR

Protection of Human
Research Subjects

SVPR

Radiation Safety

SVPR

Occupational Safety

VPFA* and  SVPR