Sponsors
Silver sponsors
Press partner
There are a range of opportunities to support the Congress, from exhibiting services to funding bursaries for delegates from developing countries . To receive more information, please email us.
Themes
Parallel working sessions at the congress will be organised under nine themes:
- Research funding and funding opportunities
- Policy and strategy
- Research integrity, ethics and governance
- Systems and operations
- Management and organisation of research support
- Developing and supporting researchers
- Developing professional research managers and administrators
- Dissemination and translation of research
- Assessing research
To assist delegates in selecting the sessions they wish to attend, the brief descriptions below have been prepared.
Research funding and funding opportunities
The theme will include funder presentations about their programmes, funder news/update presentations (we anticipate such sessions will be for a UK audience only) and sessions covering proposal preparation, including costing and pricing and proposal drafting. Some aspects of collaboration and competition may be addressed within this theme.
Policy and strategy
Sessions in this theme will address topical issues in national and international policy, and approaches to developing and implementing institutional and sub-institutional strategies. Sessions considering culture development and change, and organisational capacity building will be placed in this theme.
Research integrity, ethics and governance
This theme will include a range of sessions addressing systems, policies and practical issues, focusing on general or specific issues in the broad area of research integrity.
Systems and operations
The systems and operations theme will accommodate sessions focusing on research support processes (e.g. internal peer review, expertise management and incentive systems) and on electronic research administration (eRA) systems, including development and implementation projects.
Management and organisation of research support
The management and organisation theme will complement the systems and operations theme, focusing more on structures and tasks, considering where different functions are best located in research organisations at different stages in their evolution, and how staffing and skill-sets within research offices should develop over time.
Developing and supporting researchers
In this theme, sessions will deal with individual capacity building and the development of researchers at all career stages, from doctoral students to professors. Human resource issues relating to research staff, such as performance management systems, will also be accommodated in this theme.
Developing professional research managers and administrators
Sessions in this theme will provide delegates with an opportunity to reflect on their own past and future development and their personal journeys, as well as the changing nature of the research administration profession. Topics likely to be covered include research administrators' qualifications, skills, knowledge and progression. We will also invite leading members of each INORMS member society to reflect on the big issues in professional development currently faced by their members.
Dissemination and translation of research
A wide range of topics will be considered in this theme including public engagement, 'extension work', knowledge transfer/knowledge exchange, user and patient involvement in research, publication activity and researchers' engagement with professional practice in 'vocational' subjects.
Assessing research
This theme is likely to be very international in focus, and sessions will consider large- and small-scale approaches to assessing research quality, including peer review, and metrics and citations. We would like to offer sessions discussing performance indicators for research organisations in this theme.