We invite you to the inaugural Festival of Innovation in Research Management at Imperial College London. We want to share innovation in research management and the latest contributions to good practice.
We will hear from the key teams at Imperial on what’s new for them. There’s also space for all of us to submit innovations that have helped us. Have you done a really good piece of work (e.g. built a workflow, designed an event, grew a community, innovated or implemented a piece of good practice) that you think others would benefit from knowing about? Submit a talk!
In the afternoon we will have two interactive sessions. We will crowdsource an induction pack for new research management staff (What did you wish you were told in your first 6 months? What did your line manager teach you that was a lifesaver?). We will also explore research management careers – what skills do we have, where did we get them, and how do we add value?
Organised by the PRISM Community of Practice
09:30-10:00 Arrival
10:00-10:10 Welcome
10:10-11:00 Innovations in research management by PRISMs
- Khaled Taalab, CEE: Developing a New Investigator Cohort – Supporting early career academics
- Funanani Nemaheni, ISST: Strengthening Equitable Global Partnerships: A Case Study in Research Management Capacity
- Chris Mellor, Chemistry: Use of distributed peer review for research funding
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Invited speakers from key teams at Imperial
- Andrew Wright, FoE research strategy: Research Strategy – a Faculty of Engineering Perspective
- Pete Ford, Imperial Policy Forum: Engaging with policy: the long, hard (but rewarding!) road to achieving impact?
- Ruth Harrison, Library scholarly communications team: How Library Services can help inform open research practice: it’s not only about open access publishing…
- Siobhan Markus, Marla Geibel, Research Impact Management Office – Enterprise: RIMO: Where Research Glows
- AI speaker TBC
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Crowdsourcing an induction pack and training plan for new research management staff
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Interactive career pathways session