Mission & Activities

Advancing Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities

The UNH Research Office, led by the Senior Vice Provost for Research (SVPR),

  • 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 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.

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.  The Office’s comprehensive goal is to increase and support external research funding and recognition of faculty and student excellence.

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 the Research Office’s mission. 

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:

  • Environmental Health & Safety
  • Research Computing & Instrumentation
  • Research Development & Communications
  • Research Integrity Services
  • Research Partnerships & Commercialization
  • Sponsored Programs Administration

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.


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:

  • Centers & Institutes Working Group
  • Compliance & Risk Management Working Group
  • Grants Management Advisory Committee
  • IP/Tech Transfer/ Commercialization Working Group

 

 

 

             

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.

 

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


For a snapshot of research at
UNH today, see 

Research at UNH.
Innovation. Education. Impact.


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One of the responsibilities of the SVPR is to serve as the Institutional Official for University programs to ensure compliance to the Federal, state and UNH rules and regulations regarding health, safety and the responsible conduct of research.

The Institutional Official exercises administrative and operational authority to commit institutional resources, enforce policies, authorize necessary administrative or legal action, and otherwise ensure that UNH maintains strong and effective compliance programs. As required by federal and state regulations, the Institutional Official attends certain meetings and communicates with federal and state authorities.

The Institutional Officials for UNH are:

 

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

*Vice President for Finance and Administration

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See http://www.usnh.edu/audit/ethics.html for links to USNH policies on ethical conduct and values
and http://www.usnh.edu/audit/hotline.html to raise concerns anonymously about suspected unethical
conduct or non-professional business practices.