Who recruits heads of research, research strategy and research management leaders in the Asia-Pacific? A new guide on this site answers the question a university faces when it opens a research leadership post and finds that professor-search firms and executive-search firms both claim the work, while neither reads a research office the way the role requires.
Research Leadership & Research Management Recruiters, published on 29 September, explains what the role involves, why the search differs from a professor search, and how a retained search for one runs from the brief to an accepted offer. The difference lies in the evidence: a candidate for a professorship is judged on a publication list, and a candidate for research leadership is judged on the dashboards built and the change delivered.
How Axe Talent runs a research leadership search
We map the field across research offices, funding agencies and universities, verify each candidate’s record of change the way we verify a professor’s publication record, and give the university a shortlist it can interview within the same month. We wrote the guide while running exactly this search for Taylor’s University. A university with a similar post can book a twenty-minute calibration call on Natalia’s Calendar and come away with a plain assessment of whether the search is realistic.