Research Governance and Strategy
Like Duolingo, but for Research Governance and Strategy. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
27 levels across 3 sections, about 54 minutes end to end, roughly 11 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Framework of Authority, Integrity and Risk Systems, and Strategic Alignment. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Research Governance and Strategy
- The Board of Trustees holds ultimate fiduciary duty for the institution
- The President or Provost delegates research oversight to the VPR
- The Principal Investigator executes the project within local lab bounds
- The flow of delegated authority from legal entity to individual investigator
- Administrative management handles the business operations of the award
- Academic governance protects the integrity of the scholarly mission
- Shared governance involves faculty in institutional decision-making
- Distinguishing between operational management and academic policy-setting
- Departmental sign-off must precede central office submission
- The Office of Sponsored Programs performs the final compliance check
- Internal routing forms capture commitments for space and matching funds
- The AOR signs on behalf of the institution, not the individual
- Legal liability for non-compliance rests primarily with the institution
- AOR status is formally registered in systems like eRA Commons
- Identifying the necessary sequence for institutional sign-off
- The specific role and legal weight of the AOR
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Research Governance and Strategy the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
To which specific role does the President or Provost typically delegate the oversight of the research enterprise?
Get it right to open this lesson and 26 more in the app.
Where Research Governance and Strategy takes you
Move beyond basic compliance to design robust oversight systems that protect institutional integrity and support high-impact discovery.
- 1
The Framework of Authority
- The Governance Quick-Start
- Designing Oversight Committees
- Policy Lifecycle Management
- 2
Integrity and Risk Systems
- Conflict of Interest Systems
- Research Misconduct Protocols
- Regulatory Compliance Auditing
- 3
Strategic Alignment
- International Collaboration Governance
- Financial Stewardship and Strategy
- Building a Culture of Compliance
3 sections · 9 units · 27 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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Research Governance and Strategy is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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