After the success of our 2023 Research Support Services Conference, we are excited to hit the ground running for 2024!
We are looking for University colleagues with a passion for research support and enabling to join us as part of the 2024 Conference Organising Group. The role of the Conference Organising Group is to provide essential insight and organisational support to ensure the success of our event.
Being part of this group also offers an exciting and rewarding professional development opportunity and a chance to make a large and positive contribution to the research support community within the University.
To learn more about these opportunities for involvement and the application process, keep reading!
Application Deadline: Monday 19th February 2024, by Noon
Call for volunteers
The planning for the Research Support Services Conference 2024 is now well underway. To support the conference’s growing reputation and successful delivery, we are in the process of creating a Conference Organising Group and are on the lookout for collaboration-orientated volunteers to help plan and organise the conference.
These roles will run from March – November 2024 with an expected time commitment of 2 hours per week, though this is likely to fluctuate throughout the year as we get closer to the conference date, Tuesday the 29th of October.
We are looking for University colleagues to take up the following roles:
- Programme Lead (1 role available)
- Programme Co-ordinators (3 roles available)
- Volunteers to help on the day (multiple roles available)
To find out more and apply for these opportunities, please visit the Research Support Services Conference site (UofE Staff Only):
If you have any queries or would like to discuss these opportunities further, please email rss.conference@ed.ac.uk and a member of the group will get back to you.
2023 Conference Highlights
Attended by nearly 300 colleagues and offering over 25 sessions, the 2023 Research Support Services Conference provided a space for research support colleagues from across the University to come together to learn, share, network and develop our community.
Last year, we kicked off the conference with Professor Christina Boswell as our keynote speaker who spoke about the University’s new research and innovation strategy and what it means for our research support community.
From here, the conference offered a range of specialised sessions under the themes of:
- Developing and Improving Research Support Services
- Developing Technical Knowledge of Research Support
- Careers in Research Support
On the day we also provided space for key networking, knowledge exchange and discussions to allow us as a research support community to come together.
“It was a really good day and inspiring to see so many of those who support research across the University, to catch up with old and new colleagues from across the University, and gain insights into areas that you don’t normally have a chance to have much understanding of.” – 2023 Conference Attendee
You may also be interested to hear about our conference from the perspective of one of our brilliant 2023 conference Session Leads – Conor Snowden shares his experience and insights from his session here:
If you would like to know more about the 2023 Research Support Services Conference, please have a look at the conference site for further information and resources:
