Books by Uche Chineze

Academic research is the research that academic staff are required to regularly carry out to generate and disseminate new knowledge for the development of the society. This book focuses on the management issues that will help the university administrators ensure that the university system becomes more relevant to the development aspiration of Nigeria through the involvement of lecturers in academic research. Such issues include: lecturers¿ involvement in academic research, sources of funding academic research, organizational procedures for managing academic research, contribution of academic research to the development of Nigerian universities, media for the dissemination of research findings and problems inhibiting the advancement of academic research in Nigerian universities. The book also provides information that enables the university administrators to organize a more refined strategy for planning, organizing and coordinating academic research programmes in the universities. The benefits presented in this book will serve as encouragement to university scholars to engage in viable and productive research and knowledge creation.

Contract research is an aspect of applied research conducted by academic personnel for a specific client under the terms of a legal contract.As important as contract research is in the university system, it is not clear how far the universities are involved in this new strategy for generating fund for the universities and other benefits they can derive from it. This book provides detailed information about the contract research activities in Nigerian universities covering the following topics: Concept of contract research, Level of awareness of contract research in universities, Sources of information on contract research, Level of involvement of universities in contract research, Strategies for managing contract research, Benefits of contract research, Problems inhibiting university involvement in contract research, Inhibitions in sharing benefits of contract research. The information in this book will enable the university administrators, faculty members, government and industries to establish refined management arrangements for contract research activities and ensure efficient co-ordination and better accountability within the university system.