Rachelle Joseph

Rachelle Joseph is a doctoral student in the EdD program in Higher Education Leadership at Boston University, where her scholarly work focuses on convergent research, research administration, and organizational effectiveness in a global higher education context. Her capstone examines how institutional structures, administrative practices, and leadership approaches can better support convergent research—collaborative, cross‑disciplinary inquiry aimed at addressing complex societal challenges that increasingly require international perspectives and global partnerships. She is particularly interested in how research administration can create the organizational conditions that enable diverse, interdisciplinary, and multinational teams to work more efficiently, equitably, and creatively.

Ms. Joseph brings more than 15 years of professional experience in sponsored research administration to her doctoral studies, grounding her work in a strong scholar‑practitioner perspective. Her expertise includes post‑award financial management, compliance, service center governance, and data‑driven process improvement. She examines how administrative systems, workflow design, and institutional culture influence the success of research teams operating within both domestic and international research environments.

She is a 2026 SRAI Journal of Research Administration Fellow, where her work focuses on the responsible integration of AI in research administration and its implications for global research collaboration. Through this fellowship, she explores how AI‑enabled tools can reduce administrative burden, enhance coordination across multi‑stakeholder and multinational projects, and strengthen the infrastructure needed to support convergent research.

Ms. Joseph’s doctoral work reflects her commitment to advancing research administration as a field and improving the organizational and technological systems that make ambitious, cross‑disciplinary, and globally engaged research possible.

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