hey, folks who have set up research labs -- do you have a guide that helped you do it? like a "plan" to establish it, or an "ask"/outline?
@vickysteeves what exactly are you after? I ran a research lab back in the day. It was part of a university.
@vickysteeves I didn’t need to write anything to establish it. It came before me and I took over its stewardship. Did need to continually update other policy documents. Honestly the bulk of the time was spent on billing policies for lab services and overhead.
@david ah I see -- I can imagine the admin overhead being nuts. Thanks for your perspective!
@vickysteeves this was a computer science department research lab fwiw
@david i'm in library and info science so I imagine it'd be similar-ish :)
@vickysteeves academic setting? I think your billing and cost recovery is going to be the worst part. Justifiable/defensible billing of grants. Still. Have. Nightmares! 😂
@david mainly, how did you establish your lab? did you have to write a thing justifying it to your boss? did you write an outline of responsibilities for lab members/standard operating procedures as a part of getting it started?