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Communication strategies for the RMA Community
Communication strategies to boost a proactive RMA Community – The Italian way
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
PhD Marco BerzanoWe present the communication strategies and initiatives being implemented by Italian universities, research centers, and other organizations giving voice to the Italian RMA community. Colleagues from around the country has embarked on a journey towards the recognition of the RMA function in Italy.
Help the helpers- Let’s talk about it!
Empowered RMA professionals of the future through peer support
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Andreja Zulim de SwartePeer support initiatives include a range of activities organized by people of similar circumstances. They create an environment where peers can tackle work-related issues and goals through supportive listening to, engaging with, and learning from each other.
Professional onboarding for RMA newcomers
A digital in-house masterclass as an approach from Harz University
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Stefan ApitzIn this contribution we present a good practice approach for onboarding new RMA: the design, implementation and evaluation of a unique in-house, modular and digital “onboarding masterclass” consisting of 10 lessons within one week, supplemented by a “buddy” program matching experienced and newcomers
Research Managers and Adminstrators at non-RPOs
Professional recognition and identity of RMAs at non-RPOs
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
José SantosResearch Managers and Administrators (RMAs) cover the entire chain of R&I ecosystems, working mostly at universities and research institutes, but also at non-research performing organisations. In this presentation, we will discuss recent evidence, collected through surveys and interviews.
Career changes for mature RMAs
What are you looking for? Unlocking the potential and developing futuristic visions of the profession in RMA and exploring what may lie ahead
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Susi PoliCareer changes for mature or experienced RMAs so those who find themselves stuck or simply undecided at the crossroad of their professional life can discuss what they want to attain from now onwards in career, in or out of the profession in RMA?
Growing your Role: See what the RMA did next!
Growing your Role: See what the RMA did next!
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Suzanne DarcyHow do we go about growing our role? How do we widen and deepen the RMA Profession in a meaningful and substantive manner.
ISGlobal's Mentoring Program for Junior Scientists
ISGlobal's Mentoring Program for Junior Scientists – Lessons learnt from ten years' experience
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Eva CasamitjanaThis session will summarize the lessons learnt and discuss some remaining challenges of ISGlobal’s ten-years experience with a Mentoring Program addressed to postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty.
Lessons learned from a project manager’s evolution
From individual PM to a PM team and from a local network towards co-building a national association
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Annemarie Vastenhouw-van der LindenWhat can you and your organisation learn from this RMA story? How to go full cycle support; What do projects, PMs, researchers and organisations need; PM service as team effort; Besides super(wo)man powers, what other skills are needed in PM evolution, RMA professional development and recognition.
NL RM Roadmap
Exploring and co-designing the way towards an RM Roadmap in The Netherlands
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Andreja Zulim de SwarteThe need to explore the way towards a RM Roadmap in The Netherlands is driven by two important and urgent factors: 1) a systemic pressure on the research community caused by competition for funding and 2) a increasing shortage in workforce over all sectors caused by demographic change: a case study.
Networking – a critical soft skill for RMA
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Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Olaf SvenningsenNetworking is a critical skill for both RMA as individuals and for the profession but defining and applying “networking” as a professional activity is not all clear. We will explain why ‘networking’ is critical to RMA and suggest a way to operationalize networking skills for RMA’s.
Professionalisation through standardization
A targeted approach towards professionalisation through standardization of concepts
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Erlend AanoIn this presentation I will discuss how the lack of a common body of concepts in the discipline of research management can prove to be an obstacle for professionalisation and recognition. I will point to why this is a crucial and important task to the future skills development for research managers
RAAAP-3: How I Became an RMA (HIBARMA)
RAAAP-3: How I Became a Research Manager and Administrator (HIBARMA)
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Dr Simon KerridgeDrawing on the RAAAP-3 survey results, we will explore the diverse skills, training and expertise of research managers and administrators (RMAs) on an international scale, and then focus on what led us to become RMAs.
RMA Traineeship scheme to attract new talents
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Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Martina MiechováA pilot initiative introducing an innovative training scheme launched at Palacky University Olomouc (CZ) that strives to promote the RMA profession among young people (BA, MA students and early-stage researchers) and enlarge the professional RMA community in the academic sector.
Recognition and the RMA Domain
Conceptual Tools for Professional Development
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 2. Theoretical
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Heikki J. KoskinenAn important part of professional development is gaining a deeper understanding of crucial social and institutional aspects of one’s work environment. This presentation introduces concepts from contemporary recognition theory to increase our understanding of key elements of the RMA profession.
Research Administrator Job Satisfaction
Case Study on Perceived Job Satisfaction in a Central Research Administration Unit at a U.S. Private University
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Noelle StromJob satisfaction is key to employee engagement and retention. Utilizing a qualitative case study methodology, this program evaluation explores the elements that impact research administrators’ satisfaction in their job and makes recommendations for strategies to increase employee retention.
Research Managers Make Research Go Well
Research Managers Make Research Go Well - RMAs as Catalysts for a Positive Research Culture
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Dr Colleen ThomasIn 2021, University College Dublin conducted a Survey of Research Culture and a series of discussion forums that highlighted the vital role that research managers already play in creating a positive research culture and signposted where their roles could expand to make even greater contributions.
The Role of RMAs as Mediators
The Role of RMAs as Mediators: Negotiating Tensions between Administrative and Academic Perspectives
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Hanna-Maija KetolaThis is a case study on implementing the university-level roadmap for research activities on the level of faculties and facing the challenge of tensions between administrative and academic perspectives. The role of the RMAs supporting the faculties and active teamwork will be reflected.
(New) Skills for Research Managers
(New) Skills for Research Managers: A retrospective and prospective view
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Dr Mark HochmanThis session with three experienced research managers from three countries having more than 80 years collective experience will look at skills necessary for effective research management and the new skills needed to be effective in the future.
Becoming a badass unicorn II
Your Super Hero soft-skills adventure in a nut shell
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Merel-Marlijn SondervanResearch administration isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Not rarely the RMA professional ends up in situations where soft skills are essential to make it through the day alive. Embark on this adventure to learn about your soft-skills toolkit and save the (next) day. RMA Superheroes unite!
Mind the Map – A kit to make structures visible!
Visualising our collaborations as RMAs in hierarchical research institutions
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Monique Horstmann'Mind the map' is a visual tool to open the discussion about roles and hierarchies of collaborators in institutional settings. It aims to facilitate change where change is necessary - to establish egalitarian ways of working together and to enhance the recognition of RMAs in research institutions.
Open Door Leadership
Open Door Leadership – Best Practices for the RMA Professional
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Mr. Anthony VentimigliaThis oral session will utilize the foundational principles reflected in the book Leaders Open Doors by Bill Treasurer to provide Research Managers and Administrators with resources that can be utilized with their respective teams.
Professional Development and Peer Support for UAS
A Call to Create a Transnational Research Management Support Community for Universities of Applied Sciences
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Hanna-Greta PuurtinenThe professional competences and skills necessary for RMs in UASs are often different from those in fundamental universities pursuing basic science research because of the short history of UAS research and its different mission.
RMAs – New role or new professional recognition?
From mere clerks and impostors to truly agents of change
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Antonia CaroTraditionally RMAs have been considered a second class profile in the academic world. Support staff has, and still is, confronted with the higher rank conferred to researchers and academics within the institutional apparatus and the more prominent role played in society.
Research Management Credentialling Models
Research Management Credentialling Models
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Evan RobertsThis session shares the experiences of ARMS and SRAI in developing accreditation and credentialing programs by exploring design elements, curriculum development and maintenance, and key lessons learned. We will also consider the future of both programs and opportunities for international expansion.
The Importance of diversity in Research Management
The Importance of diversity in Research Management
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Jakob Feldtfos ChristensenWe talk a lot about the role of diversity in research environments, but what about diversity in research management? This panel will discuss what’s it’s like to be part of a minority community in research management, why it’s important and the role it plays in the development of the profession.
RMA in the Western Balkan countries
SARMA - The New Face of the RMA Community in the Countries of the Western Balkans
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Marina KosticRMA profession in the Western Balkan region is facing certain challenges regarding the expansion and deepening of cooperation among the RMA professionals. The paper proposes concrete measures which should be taken taken for overcoming the stated challenges.
The Researcher’s Adventures in RMA Wonderland
The Researcher’s Adventures in RMA Wonderland
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Olaf SvenningsenIn this short presentation, we will dive into the rabbit hole and explore the Wonderland of RMA, as seen with the eyes of a scientist. When we emerge again, participants will have a better understanding of seemingly irrational behaviors and thoughts that researchers may express.
The power of BESTPRAC
BESTPRAC as an instigator of professional empowerment and widening collaboration
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Edwin KantersWhether part of the core-group or just as a participant, for many involved in the COST action BESTPAC it has a positive and lasting impact on their professional development which does not stop at the individual but also extents towards the organisations they work in.
Job satisfaction of Japanese RMAs
Survey-based analysis of job satisfaction of research managers and administrators in Japan
Format: Poster
Category: 2. Theoretical
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Makiko TakahashiRMAN-J, the Japanese association for university research management, surveyed the characteristics and intentions of its members in 2022. Task satisfaction was high, while the satisfaction with working conditions was relatively low. The result seems to reflect the specific environment of research man
foRMAtion educational module and mentorship
foRMAtion: a unique initiative to train and mentor university students as potential future RMAs
Format: Poster
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Professional Development and Recognition
Virág ZsárThe project foRMAtion was running between 2019 and 2022 with the aim of giving a glimpse on the RMA profession for university students, making it attractive and recognized. The poster aims to provide an overview on the main activities, outcomes and outputs of the project.