Background and Primary Objective 

Overview

The Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) has demonstrated the substantial impact that research institutions can achieve when they work together to build capacity for supporting compliance-regulated research. Over the last few years, RRCoP members have identified numerous shared challenges and discovered the power of a collective voice. By leveraging this voice to seek expert guidance and share solutions, RRCoP continues to amplify the impact of compliance efforts across institutions. It is important that RRCoP extend the impact of these benefits far beyond individual organizations.

RRCoP is pleased to partner with Frazier & Deeter (www.frazierdeeter.com), a top 50 CPA / Advisory firm, and their team of assessors with experience with governance, risk, compliance, and a specialty in servicing research universities on a new initiative titled “Ask The Assessor”.

 “Ask The Assessor” Overview

To address evolving compliance challenges, RRCoP will collect feedback from its community on specific interests or concerns. These will be developed into small, anonymized use cases that reflect compliance scenarios within regulated research. This approach ensures the questions are grounded in real-world RRCoP needs and provides a relevant basis for Frazier & Deeter's responses. Frazier & Deeter will respond to these use cases by providing feedback on how assessors might approach or evaluate these various implementation strategies. This guidance will offer RRCoP members insights into tried-and-true methods for regulatory alignment, grounded in Frazier & Deeter’s extensive assessment experience. These write-ups will be published approximately six times per year, each tailored to key compliance concerns within the community.

 Shared Goals and Outcomes

By combining RRCoP’s integration with the community needs with Frazier & Deeter’s compliance expertise, this partnership will prepare the RRCoP community with a collection of actionable, implementation strategies at no-cost to the individual institution. This collaboration is designed to empower research institutions to proactively address assessment challenges and develop confidence in their compliance practices.

Meet the RRCoP Team

RRCoP has begun assembling the team of volunteers, and we'd like to compose our first one during January 2025. If you have ideas, we'd like to hear from you. Submit your ideas and help as a guest writer [Ask the Assessor Form]

RRCoP 'Ask The Assessor' Team

• Erik Deumens, University of Florida

• Ryan Duitman, University of Arizona

• Carolyn Ellis, Arizona State University

• Cal Frye, Case Western Reserve University

• Michael Hacker, Arizona State University

• Jeremy Hallum, University of Michigan

• Jim Kenyon, University of Michigan

• Deb McCaffrey, Arizona State University

• Sam Porter, University of Maryland

• Laura Raderman, Carnegie Mellon University