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The EUCLID Research Directorate
The Research Directorate promotes, coordinates, documents and assures the quality of research by EUCLID faculty and students, and makes that work visible to the academic community, to Member and Participating States, and to quality assurance bodies.
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Mandate
What the Directorate does
Established by Charter of the Oversight Council with effect from September 15, 2026, the Directorate serves the whole of EUCLID research: faculty projects, master's and doctoral research, work under cooperation agreements with partner governments, and output published by EUCLID University Press.
Research records
Administers the Research Management System, sets its data standards and verifies every entry against evidence.
Doctoral research
Follows each doctoral project from proposal through the T-DTH sequence to final approval and publication.
Publication support
Advises on publication venues, open access, DOI and ORCID identifiers, and the avoidance of predatory journals.
Dissemination
Records conferences attended and lectures delivered, and presents EUCLID research to the wider public.
Integrity and ethics
Administers research ethics review and the research integrity, authorship and data policies.
Reporting
Produces the annual research report and the indicators required for quality assurance and accreditation.
Research Management System
One verified record of EUCLID research
The RMS is the official record of EUCLID research. Built on the model of established research information systems, it links every output to its authors, their academic unit and, where applicable, a research project.
Verified records feed the Performance and IQA Dashboard and the reports EUCLID submits to quality assurance bodies and partner states. An output not recorded in the RMS is not counted in institutional reporting.
Record types
From submission to report
- SubmittedA faculty member or student enters the record with its evidence, within 30 days of publication or the event.
- VerifiedThe Directorate checks the record against its evidence, or returns it for correction.
- ReportedVerified records appear in profiles, the research portal and institutional reports.
EUCLID journal
Intergovernmental Research and Policy Journal
IRPJ is EUCLID's interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal. It publishes research with policy implications for intergovernmental bodies, in fields that include international public health, diplomacy and international law. Faculty and doctoral candidates are encouraged to consider IRPJ for their work, and IRPJ articles are recorded in the RMS like any other peer-reviewed output.
- ISSN
- 2663-6832
- Publisher
- EUCLID
- Access
- Open access (Budapest Open Access Initiative)
- Review
- Peer reviewed, with an editorial board of practicing researchers
- Issues
- Quarterly compiled issues; approved articles published on an ongoing basis
Leadership
The Research Director
The Directorate is headed by a Research Director, appointed by the Vice Chancellor with the concurrence of the Chairman of the Oversight Council.
Transitional Research Director
An internationally based scholar, serving remotely, leads the launch of the Directorate.
- Launches the first phase of the RMS
- Drafts the research integrity, ethics and data policies
- Collects and verifies existing research records
Resident Research Director
A Research Director resident at EUCLID headquarters in The Gambia, holding faculty rank.
- Directs the Directorate and chairs the Research Committee
- Teaches and supervises doctoral candidates
- Represents EUCLID research to partners and quality assurance bodies
Coordination
The Research Committee
The Committee advises the Research Director and coordinates research across EUCLID. It meets at least quarterly.
- The Research Director (chair)
- The Vice Chancellor or a delegate
- The heads of academic programs
- Two faculty representatives
- One doctoral candidate representative
- The internal quality assurance officer
- The Registrar or a delegate
For researchers
Contributing to the record
Faculty members and research students take part in four ways.
- They create an RMS profile, linked to an ORCID iD where available.
- They register each new research project before data collection begins.
- They submit each publication, conference and lecture within 30 days, with its evidence.
- They answer verification queries from the Directorate.
