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ABSTRACT

Loralin Welch and Noorie K. Brantmeier in "Examining Employee Retention and Motivation Trends in Research Administration" provide us with a timely examination of motivational factors contributing to retention and voluntary turn- over they found to be most important through their mixed-methods national survey of research administrators in the United States Professor Mackworth-Young in his article entitled, "A Proportionate Peer Review Service," examined the use, efficacy, and functioning ofthe peer review service as it has operated over more than a decade at Imperial College in London. [...]in the article "Development and Implementation of Work Engagement Strategies in a Clinical Research Consortium During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic", Marcus Johnson - along with colleagues in Veterans Affairs (VA) settings across the United States - describes the development and implementation of strategies to maintain work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic among clinical research staff involved in a consortium of ten VA medical centers involved in collaborative clinical trials. [...]as always, if you are a non-SRAI member and wish to have the journal delivered to you via email, please sign up through the online system at http//www.journalra.org.