The BU Research Development Unit (RDU) walked away from this year’s Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) annual conference with the award for best poster. With 14 posters submitted to this, ARMA’s 21st anniversary conference, in Glasgow, there was hot competition for the prize.
The posters covered a range of issues across research management and administration. The BU entry, put together by Corrina Dickson, Anita Somner and Julie Northam with the help of the Marketing and Communications team, focused on how the RDU has tailored support for academics in the pre-award process by:
- customising funding alerts
- redesigning the internal peer review process
- improving the quality of Je-S proposals prior to submission
- providing personalised recognition for funding success.
A pdf copy of the poster is available here.
The prize, which included a free delegate place at next year’s INORMS conference in Copenhagen, was presented on the second day of the two-day event, shortly after the team wiped the floor at the previous evening’s conference dinner quiz!
This success closely follows other recent achievements for the RDU and wider Centre for Research and Enterprise Operations team, most notably their shortlisting for the 2011 Times Higher Education Leadership & Management Awards (THELMAs) under the ‘Outstanding Research Management Team’ category. This was for the work done to improve the management and infrastructure of research support at BU during 2009-2010.
The awards ceremony for the THELMAs will be held in London on 16 June 2011 where the team will be joined by representatives from BU’s Financial and Commercial Services (FCS) as part of FCS’s nomination for ‘Outstanding Finance Team’.
