History

Since the establishment of the faculty, the Research Vice-Chancellor has worked independently and sometimes as a merger in the Institute of Social Studies and Research. From 2013 to 2015, this unit was running independently under the title of Research Vice-Chancellor, until two educational and research vice-chancellors were merged and scientific vice-chancellors were established. Therefore, the research department continued to work in the same place but under the supervision of the scientific deputy, but the increase in the amount of research work and the attention to research made it necessary to reestablish this deputy, and in February 2015, the office of the research deputy was reopened.
The research assistant is selected from among the faculty members with the opinion of the dean of the faculty and with the approval of Tehran University.
The activity of the research assistantship includes reviewing research projects and approving them, proposing research projects to other organizations and carrying them out in this assistantship, reviewing the research activities of academic staff members and providing points to receive special credit (grant), supervising research trips and missions, etc.
Applied research
The history of conducting research projects in the Faculty of Social Sciences is as old as the establishment of this faculty, but the establishment of applied research affairs as one of the duties and organizational activities of the research assistant in this faculty dates back to the establishment of the General Department of Applied Research in 1376 and includes the following description of duties: 

  • Communicating and holding meetings with organizations and executive bodies and obtaining research priorities 
  • Informing the research priorities of organizations and executive bodies to faculty members according to their respective specialties. 
  • Sending professors' research proposals to related organizations and executive bodies and necessary follow-ups 
  • Conclusion of research contracts 
  • Carrying out administrative affairs related to concluded research contracts 
  • Conclusion of memorandum of understanding with organizations and executive bodies 
  • Informing the by-laws and executive instructions of applied research and informing the faculty members. 
  • Interaction and cooperation in holding research festival and university research week exhibition 
  • Doing things related to special credits (grant) for applied projects 
  • Follow-up of insurance, tax and other deductions of applied plans 
  • Collecting faculty statistics and information and preparing annual performance reports in the field of applied research 
  • Communication with the General Department of Applied Research in the correct implementation of matters related to the field of applied research and requesting the necessary support

Other research matters of this unit include: 

  • Examining the research activities of respected faculty members after entering the necessary information in the research system to calculate points and receive grants. 
  • Examining the proposal of professors' basic plans and presenting it to the research council of the faculty for approval for implementation 
  • Receiving and reviewing the application of postgraduate students to use the university's financial aid in the form of a thesis support plan, which includes foreign students studying. 
  • Examining the request of applicants to use the internal study opportunity of the doctoral course 
  • Acceptance and follow-up of postdoctoral applicants
  • The research cores, labratories and journals are also ,managed under the Office  of the Vice- Dean for Research