General Responsibilities and Activities

• Delegating staff teachers to foreign-based conferences and organizing external sabbaticals.
• Delegating staff teachers to domestic conferences and organizing internal sabbaticals.
• Publishing a bimonthly research newsletter.
• Ranking and evaluating the research activities of staff teachers, including articles published in ISI, foreign-based journals, scientific-research journals, and scientific-developmental journals,  books (authored or translated), articles presented in workshops, dissertation-derived articles, scientific reports, and supervising student dissertations .  
• Supervising the conferences convened at University .
• Accepting research proposals from other universities and presenting research proposals to government agencies .
• Referring students to other organizations for serving their apprenticeship, administering projects, and utilizing scientific. sources and facilities of such organizations and organizing field trips .
• Signing research contracts with government agencies .
• Supervising the administration of computer systems at IKIU .
• Supporting and supervising small-scale research contracts signed between staff teachers and other organizations .
• Submitting books authored or translated by staff teachers to referees both inside and outside IKIU .
• Convening the sessions of the Research Council of IKIU .
• Registering research records of staff teachers .
• Having the books authored or translated by staff teachers published .
• Having the books authored or translated by staff teachers marketed or sold .
• Offering Xerox services to students and staff teachers.