RMAs in Motion
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For many and various reasons, research administrators may find themselves seeking work in an unfamiliar place. Although the EU funding opportunities stay the same, a lot else changes when you start to work for a new university in a new country. You will have to deal not just with a different job, but a different university and office culture. Added to this are the difficulties of potentially learning a new language, or at the very least new terms and concepts.
Academia is said to be international, but is that really true, and does the same apply for research administration? Although highly valuable as international experience, can such a radical change set you back in your career, or are there only benefits?
Agenda
A 45-minute panel discussion followed by an interactive Q&A session of up to an additional 45 minutes.
Speakers
Nick Ollivere is a senior grant advisor at the University of Leiden, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities. He works on pre-award support for both European programmes as well as national funding schemes. He did a PhD in London (2009) before working in research administration at Kingston University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Leicester. In 2017 he moved to the Netherlands to work at Leiden.
Angela Noble has worked in Research Administration since 1998, joining the University of Edinburgh in 1993 as course secretary in what was then the Computer Science Department, having had many different positions since then she headed up the European Office until August 2016. In September 2016 Angela moved to Leiden University to reconnect with research support and now supports researchers not only on European funding but also national Dutch funding opportunities too. Within EARMA Angela is also a trainer on the Early Stage Research Administrator Masterclass.
Cecilie Ydemann Hansen has worked in research administration for more than 15 years. Originally from Denmark, Cecilie started out working with EU funding at Imperial College London, before relocating to Brussels where she worked for the UK Research Office (UKRO) for three years. Following another three years at Imperial College London, Cecilie then relocated to Denmark in 2012. She currently leads a team of 13 people in the Office of Research & Innovation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Anja Hegen is part of the advisory team for externally financed projects at the Divison of Research and Innovation at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her main responsibilities are the Norwegian Center of Excellence scheme (SFF) , the European Research Council (ERC) and the TMS-UiB career program. Anja holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Freiburg in Germany and has worked as a postdoc in Bergen. She started to work as a research adviser in 2008.
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RMAs in Motion
Nick Ollivere, Angela Noble, Cecilie Ydemann Hansen and Anja Hegen will share their experiences of the challenges and opportunities of moving to work in a new country during this panel discussion to provide an understanding of the opportunities and challenges inherent to it.
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