Last month I attended the ARMA annual conference along with David Young (Senior Research Facilitator, whose blog post can be read here) and Carolyn Williams (Research Administrator, MHT.) Whilst David attended most of the policy, operations and governance sessions and…
ARMA Conference 2010
This year the annual conference of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) took place in Manchester at the Midland Hotel. It was the largest ARMA conference yet, with 350 delegates from research support offices across the UK Higher…
ESRC Study Tour: 9th April 2010
Last week I made an epic 7 and a half hour journey from Lincoln to Swindon for the Economic and Social Research Council‘s (ESRC) “study tour”, which was organised in conjunction with ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators). Despite the…
ARMA 09: Post-Conference Thoughts
The 2009 Association of Research Managers and Administrators conference took place in Southampton from 1st to 3rd June. I attended the full three day event which was a great opportunity to find out about good practice in research administration at…