What's inside Callista Research?

Grant Applications

• Links with ethics module where ethical clearance is required.
• Records details of any industry collaborators and the associated funding by year for each.
• Records details of grant applications from submission to contract.
• Records funding split if more than one school is involved.
• Records funding requested, offered, adjustments and in-kind amounts by year.
• Records investigators involved and research codes.

Consultancies and Contracts

• Designed to record all funding or non-financial agreements other than grants.
• Links with ethics module where ethical clearance is required.
• Records details of clients.
• Records details of contracts including confidentiality agreements and outcomes.
• Records funding by year and client.
• Records investigators involved and research codes.

Sub Contracts

• Records details of sub contractors and the expenditure involved.

Ethics Applications

• Animal types and animal issue numbers and limits.
• Records details of human and animal ethics applications.
• Records investigators involved.

Intellectual Property

• Records details of creators, ownership (and percentage rates), royalty recipients (and percentage rates)
• Records details of disclosures.
• Records details of tangible IP including Patents, Plant Breeders.

Publication Entry System

• Generates reports to assist with preparation of the DEST collection, including chapter calculation.
• Generates research report in HTML.
• Generates statistical, audit and problem reports.
• Records details of issues and problems involved with DEST verification material etc.
• Records details of research publications.
• Schools enter their publications via the web.

Research Higher Degrees

• Records details of candidates undertaking degrees by research including masters and PhD.
• Recording of milestones and actions required.
• Recording of supervisors, examiners, thesis etc.
• Tracking of candidature from commencement to graduation including details of the examination process.

Other features

• Active Email: Each main module may have associated with it, one or more user defined email templates which are associated with a particular status or more than one status, such that, when the status is set for the record, the email is generated with merged data, and is made available to the user through their email client for amending or sending as is.
• Actions may also be entered manually
• Each module maintains a status history from which actions are generated automatically
• Extensive pre-written reports and the ability to generate and integrate custom reports.