Overview of Our Approach
Our strategic approach relies on an orchestrated collaboration of the National Center, five Regional Centers, the Expert Areas team, the Value Areas team, and our partnership with the research community. The goal is to achieve an ongoing co-creation process that results in on-the-job use of institutional research security enhancements. We do this through an iterative, community-centered process for design, development, delivery, refinement, support and maintenance of these enhancements.
Expert Areas
The Expert Areas team informs the research community on specialized topics and latest developments that are relevant to the community’s design, development, and use of enhancements to research security. Research stakeholders are the experts in what capabilities are needed and how these capabilities should align with their work processes, but most stakeholders do not know all the issues and possibilities that exist or the current options available. The Expert Area team assures that our co-creation efforts are informed and aware.
Sensitive & High-risk Research Areas
International Relations
Community Inquiries
Threat Types
Policy and Best Practices
Data Analytics
Geopolitical Analysis
Training
Cartographic and Geospatial
Analysis and Visualization
Co-Creation
Co-creation is a collaborative design process where participants actively contribute to identifying challenges, co-designing solutions, providing feedback on built prototypes, and iterating toward a final product that meets their needs.
National Center
The National Center is based out of the University of Washington but supported by resources from around the U.S. The National Center includes the PI/Director, Co-Director, Co-creation Director and team, Technology Solutions Director and team, and Center Operations team. The Center Operations team functions include Communication, Marketing and Outreach, Grants and Business Management, Evaluation, and Center Continuity.
Regional Centers
Each SECURE Regional Center operates a “co-design hub” that conducts regional co-design activities guided by the National Co-Creation Team. This approach considers the needs and perspectives of relevant organizations that exist in vastly different geographic, administrative, and socioeconomic contexts while simultaneously leveraging the design and development capabilities of the lead institution. Additionally, this structure paves the way for solutions that might not otherwise be conceived by organizations in isolation.
Value Areas
The SECURE Center’s Value Areas team informs the research community on issues, priorities and perspectives that may not be in the forefront as the community works to design, develop, and implement capabilities that enhance research security. In particular, the Value Areas team will assure that SECURE co-creation efforts are balanced, including being informed by and responsive to all stakeholders and their contexts and needs as well as balanced interests; that these efforts to protect research value do not reduce open collaboration or increase research administrative burden.
Emerging Research Institutions
Researchers
Balancing Science with Political Climate
Small and Medium Businesses
Burden Reduction
Supporting Research Security Processes
Nonprofit Research Institutions
Balance of Open and Secure Research