Accelerating the Nation's Research Capacity through an EPSCoR Hub
Your Data. Your Progress. Your Next Move.
Executive brief · one minute · Aug 2025 – Oct 2026
Capturing the progression of the implementation process
By attending the project's evaluation meetings and systematically coding every agenda discussion, we built a dated, structured record of how the implementation work actually unfolded — what was decided, what was built, and what was delivered, month by month.
Summary
244 discussion topics were coded from 10 project meetings and 24 discussion items captured from email exchanges, Aug 2025 – Oct 2026. Most were about Planning (82, 34%), Development (54, 22%) and Implementation (49, 20%). They most often advanced Development Support (107) and Critical Knowledge (85). The most common specific codes were Annual Summit (65), Virtual Workshops (56) and EPSCoR Hub Website (31).
Most Frequently Discussed Topics
The ten subjects that came up most often across all 244 coded discussion topics.
10
Project meetings attended
244
Topics coded
9
Months with coded activity
8
Coded topics tracked
Coded topics by month
How often each coded discussion topic was advanced in each month, as a primary or secondary code. Each row keeps to its own colour from the palette, and darker means more topics.
| Coded discussion topic | Aug 2025 | Nov 2025 | Dec 2025 | Jan 2026 | Feb 2026 | Mar 2026 | Apr 2026 | Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Sharing | 3 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
| Dissemination | 1 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 |
| Collaborative Networks | 4 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 7 |
| Strengthen Research Capacity | 1 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| Critical Knowledge | 1 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 20 | |
| Development Support | 2 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 6 |
| Broadening Participation | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Month labels are cognac for 2025 and emerald for 2026.
Expand Research Capacity came up just once — in Nov 2025.
Strengthen Research Capacity came up 31 times, across eight months.
That gap points to a planned conversation on expanding research capacity in 2027.
What the implementation discussions were about
Every topic carries one general code. The spread shows a full implementation cycle, not a single phase.
Communication · 30
Relaying information between people and groups
Development · 54
Building the pieces
Implementation · 49
Running and delivering the work
Planning · 82
Deciding what happens next
Recruitment · 3
Finding and inviting people
Upcoming Events · 26
What is on the calendar next
What the Collaborative Insight Meetings revealed
Sustained presence
We attended and documented 10 project meetings from Aug 2025 – Oct 2026 — the record follows the work from early planning through post-summit delivery, with coding applied consistently throughout.
Systematic coding
All 244 agenda discussion topics were coded on two layers: a general code (what the topic was about) and up to two coded discussion topics (what it advanced). 209 topics carry both a primary and a secondary coded topic.
Progression made visible
Because every topic is dated and coded, the data shows the work moving from planning and development into implementation — not as an anecdote, but as a month-by-month record.
A reusable instrument
The coding framework — 6 general codes and 8 coded discussion topics with fixed definitions — can be applied to the next round of meetings with no retooling, so the record keeps growing comparably.