The Office of Research & Scholarship supports research and scholarly efforts across SoE.
When you collaborate with our team, we agree to:
- Provide a checklist of proposal requirements – Research Administrator (RA)
- Create key milestone deadlines for proposal components such as budget, editing, final documents, and submission – Editors (Ed), RA
- Assist with budget and document creation; provide examples and templates of materials when available – RA, Ed
- Coordinate with subawardee institutions to collect needed documents – RA
- Edit and provide comments on your narrative and other text-heavy portions of your proposal – Ed
- Upload documents and budgets to the sponsor portal and campus system – RA
- Review the submission and assist with error corrections – Ed, RA
- Route the proposal to the School of Education and RSP for submission – RA
- Verify submission to funder – RA
When we collaborate with you, you agree to:
- Read the current, accurate call for proposals for your submission
- Review the checklist provided to you by WCER to ensure you address proposal requirements
- Deliver all materials by agreed-upon deadlines
- Supply correct versions of documents and clearly mark final versions
- Give editors documents at required page limits
- Provide reviewer comments to editors when available
- Review and accept editorial changes
- Notify WCER of substantive changes such as updated documents, title changes, and budget updates as soon as possible but no later than a week before final submission
- Communicate your needs and plans – if you will not be able to meet a deadline or will not be submitting, let Research Admin and Editor teams know as soon as possible
- Review compiled submission for complete and correct versions of documents
- Send administrative approval of final submission to research administrator
- Certify records and complete PI portions of submissions
Only you and your team can address the following:
- Issues in the science
- Missing references and citation errors
- Missing letters of support
- Incorrect tables
- Incorrect information on personnel documents
- Correct versions of documents
Please also refer to the RSP guidance on roles and responsibilities at https://rsp.wisc.edu/policies/staffroles.cfm.
Given sufficient time, our editors can address this kind of error:
- Identify missing documents
- Identify missing narrative components/sections
- Redundant and confusing language
- Language/voice consistency
- Spelling and grammar
- Formatting issues
Research administrators can address this kind of error:
- Identify missing documents
- Budget issues
- Number mismatch, especially in the budget justification
- Errors that prevent submission
Only you and your team can address the following:
- Issues in the science
- Missing references and citation errors
- Missing letters of support
- Incorrect tables
- Incorrect information on personnel documents
- Correct versions of documents