Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	56.45
Liaison	Bambi Ingram
Submission Date	Feb. 7, 2020
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.76 / 12.00	Abigail Franks Intern Sustainability

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Part 1

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):

3,737

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):

1,760

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :

47.10

Part 2

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:

307

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:

221

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:

71.99

Research Inventory

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

UAB_Sustainability_Analysis_of_IRAP_Records_2019-08-23.xlsx

The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

Integrated Research Administration Portal (IRAP) Methodology: Run an ad hoc report from IRAP designed to return every person listed in the Personnel screen of every project currently in an "Active" status (18,898 records). Export the report results to Excel. Use "Active Projects" for the sheet name. Note that projects are defined here as having any one of the following Proposal Types: Original/New, Competing Continuation/Renewal, Resubmission, Change in PI, Transfer In, Fee for Service. Import the Excel list of sustainability search terms provided by the requestor into the Excel workbook as a separate sheet. Use "Sustainability Terms" for the sheet name. Add a formula column to the "Active Projects" that determine TRUE/FALSE whether the project keywords or project title contain at least one of the requestor's search terms. The counts of active projects and active sustainability projects were obtained from the "Active Project Count" and "Active Sustain Project Count" sheets respectively. The number of all distinct persons that were listed on active sustainability research projects were gathered from the "Active Sustain Project Count" sheet. Responsible departments were gathered from the "Active Sustain Project Count" sheet as well. Keywords used are here: https://reports.aashe.org/media/secure/856/7/631/5788/SustainabilityKeywordList_AASHEPresentation.pdf Many of our current sponsored programs are health-related and though there is subjectivity in selecting sustainability research, at UAB Sustainability we identify health-related research with potentially positive social, environmental, or economic outcomes as sustainability research.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

SustainabilityKeywordList_AASHEPresentation.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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