Event date: April 5, 2022

Event time: 2pm - 3:30pm CET

Location: Zoom
 

This event is an exploratory meeting towards an EARMA Post-Award Project Management Thematic Group, a forum for EARMA members involved in supporting projects and programs based in research-performing organisations throughout their active lifecycle.

Such a thematic group would facilitate interaction, sharing of opinions and expertise, to address a variety of topics and issues pertinent to the successful application of project management methodologies to the research and innovation domain, along with general consideration of evolving and emerging issues in operational research management. Once an active group, we intend to run regular ‘best practice’ meetings (typically shorter in format), each based around a relevant topic or issue related to post-award management, with plenty of discussion opportunities. 

This first and exploratory event is meant to introduce the group, with speakers on the topic of ‘Project Management Methodology and Research’.
 

Agenda 

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Speaker 

José Luis Ferreira is a consultant and trainer in project management, with interest in multiple approaches/methodologies for project delivery. He is a PM² Evangelist and passionate about Project Management for Development. José is a partner at Freeconcept, which is a consulting company focused on IT and Project Management. He is an Authorized Training Partner at the PM² Alliance and the Regional Coordinator of PM² Alliance for Portugal. He has throughout his career gained many certifications, including PM² Trainer, PM² Advanced, PM² Essentials, PM² Basic, PMP (#515666), PMD Pro (Project Management for Development Professionals) level 1, Scrum Master Certified and Scrum Product Owner Certified.

From 2001-2008, José was a partner at Pessoas e Processos, Formação e Consultoria em Tecnologias de Informação. He also was the Director of the Science and Technology Department at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa from 1999 to 2007, and before that a University Professor at the University of Coimbra, from 1986 to 1999. He has a Post-Graduation in Project Management and a PhD in Computer Science, with focus in Machine Learning, at the University of Coimbra. In addition, José graduated in Electrical Engineering, a Computer Science branch, in 1986 at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.

Speakers and initiators 

Emma Leahy is the Director of Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) at the Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT) and is responsible for the development and management of the RDI to enhance the aims and objectives of the Institutes research and innovation community. IADT is a specialist institution with over 2500 students studying film, art, design, creative technologies, business, psychology, and more. They are home to Ireland’s National Film School (NFS). The NFS is a nationally and internationally recognised centre of excellence in screen production, design, and education for the creative industries. IADT is among the top film and animation schools according to Variety Magazine (US). NFS staff and alumni have a distinguished record of national and international awards and recognition, including Academy Awards and honours at the Venice Biennale, Cannes Film Festival, Royal Television Society, EMMYS, BAFTA, and the Irish Film & TV Awards. Emma has worked in research management for over 12 years and across many areas, including creative arts, computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, engineering and humanities. She joined IADT from Trinity College Dublin where she managed a €14.5 million nationally-funded multi-centre research programme. During her time at TCD, she worked directly with industry partners and governmental organisations in the development and delivery of industry-driven collaborative research projects and was involved in securing over €2.6 million from industry and over €40 million from European and International funding agencies.  
 

Richard Twohig is a certified project management professional (PMI-PMP) who has worked to deliver research portfolios and programmes for over 15 years, across large and small companies and universities. Richard's background is in chemical engineering, metrology and renewable energy systems. His project management expertise developed through delivering sensing technology to oil and gas installations around the world, leading product development for an innovative energy-harvesting start-up, and supporting some of Ireland’s largest European funded projects. Recently he has joined Crowdhelix to look after a portfolio of research partnerships. In addition to project execution, Richard is interested in optimised models for project management / PMO support in the academic and collaborative innovation sectors, and in improving support provision to early career researchers.
 

José M. R. C. A. Santos is a Research Support Officer and Assistant Researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal). He has a PhD (ULeeds - UK) in Chem. Eng. (UCoimbra – Portugal) and he has post-graduations in Professional Project Management and in Environmental Technology. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP®) and an External expert (project proposals evaluation) for the European Commission, among other national and international R&D funding bodies. José has åarticipated in over 20 international and national research and innovation projects, and have been the coordinator of 6 of these. His research interests comprise R&D, innovation and project management at higher education institutions, and professionals working at the interface of science. 
 

Doireann Wallace is a Senior Interdisciplinary Research Funding Specialist at Trinity College Dublin, where she is responsible for supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research development and funding applications in Climate and Sustainability areas, primarily for Horizon Europe. Prior to this, she managed the SHAPE-ID Horizon 2020 project (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She has a PhD in Media from Dublin Institute of Technology and has worked as a research funding officer in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity, a freelance instructional designer, an art critic and a lecturer in Photography and Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design.