{"id":769,"date":"2009-11-09T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/?p=769"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:52:32","slug":"distribution-of-overhead-and-indirect-costs-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/2009\/distribution-of-overhead-and-indirect-costs-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution of Overhead and Indirect Costs of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Distribution of Overhead and Indirect Costs of Research\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Policy Name: <\/strong><\/td>Distribution of Overhead and Indirect Costs of Research<\/td><\/tr>
Originating\/Responsible Department:<\/strong><\/td>Office of the Vice-President (Research and International)<\/td><\/tr>
Approval Authority<\/strong>:<\/td>Academic and Research Committee<\/td><\/tr>
Date of Original Policy:<\/strong><\/td>August 2009<\/td><\/tr>
Mandatory Revision Date: <\/strong><\/td>August 2014<\/td><\/tr>
Contact: <\/strong><\/td>Director, Research Services<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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The distribution of overhead and indirect cost revenues will be consistent across the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The indirect costs of research are institutional costs that benefit and support research. These costs must be included in budget requests to external sponsors of research and research-related activities. Indirect costs cannot be easily isolated to a specific research project, but they are nevertheless real and necessary for the conduct of research. Examples of these costs include, but are not limited to, building space and utilities; maintenance and upgrade of research space; maintenance and upgrade of library facilities; central technical support of labs, offices, core and other facilities; management and administration of research, research finances, and regulatory requirements and research compliance (i.e. research ethics, biohazards certification, animal care etc.); hazardous waste disposal; radiation safety; occupational safety; campus security; liability insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the distribution of overhead and indirect cost revenue is consistent, and is distributed in a manner that ensures that appropriate costs of conducting research are met. These funds can also be used in a manner that generates future research revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This policy is applicable to overhead and indirect costs revenue collected as a result of research sponsored from external sources, and other non-credit academic, professional and engagement activities related to research activities and expertise. Funds received from the federal government Indirect Costs Program are not<\/span> included in this policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The <\/strong>distribution of overhead and indirect costs will be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5%          University contingency to cover the unexpected costs associated with contract completion (e.g., bad research debts), to be administered jointly by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) (OVPRI), and the Office of the Vice-President (Finance and Administration) (OVPFA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the remaining 95%,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

55%        Central University Operating (27% of this 55% will go to OVPRI on the first $1.33M total overhead revenue to University per annum; 73% to OVPRI on revenue that exceeds $1.33M). 50% of the overhead to OVPRI that is generated by Carleton University Research Centres (CURCs) will be used, at the discretion of OVPRI, to support the activities of the CURCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15%        Faculty (for cross-Faculty CURCs this amount would be split equally between the Faculties)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15%        Department (on non-CURC related projects, based on the principal investigator\u2019s appointment)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15%        Carleton University Research Centre (on CURC projects)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15%        Researcher (for eligible research costs; can be reallocated to a CURC, at the discretion of the principle investigator)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links to related Policies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/secretariat\/policies\/University%20Overhead%20in%20Sponsored%20Research%20Activites.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Policy Name: Distribution of Overhead and Indirect Costs of Research Originating\/Responsible Department: Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) Approval Authority: Academic and Research Committee Date of Original Policy: August 2009 Mandatory Revision Date: August 2014 Contact: Director, Research Services Policy: The distribution of overhead and indirect cost revenues will be consistent across the University. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}