Research management
For universities, EduPrime tracks the research lifecycle – grants and their funding, the projects that spend them, and the publications they produce – against staff and student researchers.
Grants
A grant records external or internal research funding. Under Research → Grants, capture:
- Funder – the awarding body or sponsor.
- Amount & currency – total award, with tranches where funds are released in stages.
- Period – start and end dates of the funding window.
- Principal Investigator (PI) – the lead researcher accountable for the grant.
- Conditions & deliverables – reporting obligations and milestones the funder expects.
Grant spend reconciles against the finance module, so the PI and the research office can see committed and remaining funds at any time without a separate spreadsheet.
Projects
A research project is the work funded by one or more grants. Each project carries:
| Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Title & abstract | What the research investigates |
| Team | PI, co-investigators, research assistants, postgraduate students |
| Funding | Linked grant(s) and budget lines |
| Milestones | Deliverables with due dates and status |
| Ethics status | Ethics-committee approval reference, where required |
| Outputs | Publications, datasets and patents produced |
Publications
Record research outputs under Research → Publications: journal articles, conference papers, books, chapters and theses. Each publication captures authors (linked to staff and student records), the venue, the year, DOI and citation count where tracked, and the project it arose from.
Because publications link back to authors and projects, the research office can report institutional output per department, per funder, or per researcher – the figures that feed national research assessments and university rankings.