The Thammasat University Research and Innovation Division employs a research coordination officer responsible for coordinating research-related activities. This role includes issuing calls for project proposals, ensuring the completeness of documents and applicant qualifications for funding, presenting proposals to the Research and Development Funding Committee for evaluation, notifying applicants of funding decisions, and monitoring research progress and funding disbursements to ensure adherence to contractual terms. The position is divided into three sub-divisions.

1. Research Planning and Management Unit: This unit is responsible for developing research strategies, management plans, and annual budgets. Its functions include allocating and monitoring research funding, ensuring research standardization and ethics, cooperating with external funding agencies, and enhancing academic excellence through research and innovation. The unit supports interdisciplinary research through individual research grants, matching-funds, Centers of Excellence and Research Units. In 2024, Thammasat University granted supports a total of 20 Centers of Excellence across various interdisciplinary fields of research. This ecosystem for researcher collaborations has facilitated multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in research and development, human resource management and addressing social issues such as sustainability and healthcare.

2. Research Promotion and Dissemination Unit: This unit assists researchers, faculty members, and graduate students in promoting their research, innovations, and publications. It also supports academic conferences, research training sessions, intellectual property data collection, and international research collaboration. This unit help promote the university’s interdisciplinary research through various research conventions honing research and innovations excellences and fostering collaborative research with other national research agencies.

3. Academic Journals and Research Data Systems Unit: This unit oversees the university’s academic journals, research data systems, website, and related information outlets. By leveraging Thammasat University’s Scopus-indexed journals, the unit help promote interdisciplinary research and drives innovations.