Brown Virtual Lab
Research project management
Intake and onboarding

Guide 03 of 10

Prepare a substantive professional collaboration intake

Present your expertise, evidence, proposed contribution, capacity, and permissions in the existing seven-step professional review.

For: Professionals seeking a detailed collaboration review

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Complete professional intake

Submit a professional collaboration intake and receive a reference.

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Checkpoint 1

Gather evidence before you begin

Prepare your professional contact details, title, organization, biography, credentials, experience, and public professional links. Choose examples that explain your methods, tools, outcomes, and distinctive expertise. Describe a proposed contribution and its relationship to the research themes that interest you. Use high-level information suitable for an intake record and direct restricted material through the separately approved project pathway.

  • Identify a project or experience that demonstrates your preparation.
  • Describe an outcome you would like to support and a contribution you could sustain.
  • Prepare reference and verifier details, including the requested contact permissions.

Checkpoint 2

Work through the seven steps

Complete the fields for collaboration preferences, available hours, time zone, working cadence, start timing, duration, and communication practices. Explain current capacity and future ambitions clearly. Check optional email addresses, dates, and website links as carefully as required entries. Use the review screen to inspect the complete application and return to individual sections when a correction is needed.

Checkpoint 3

Choose permissions and preserve the receipt

Read biography, goals, reflection, and recording choices individually, including signatures required for particular permissions. Sign in before submission when you want a private draft and a receipt connected with your account. Signed-out submission remains available; keep the resulting reference. Professional review may move through new, reviewing, conversation, aligned, declined, or closed states. Follow the actual feedback and documented next step. Professional intake and member profiles each retain their own purpose and record.

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