What do researchers want from ICT?
| Abstract |
Of all the groups in education that JISC serves, the requirements of researchers have proved to be the hardest to pin down. While some have been quietly embracing new technologies to undertake groundbreaking research, others are struggling to see how these new tools can best meet their needs, if at all.
This session draws on the work of JISC’s community engagement projects. Taking specific examples from different disciplines, including the social sciences and arts and humanities, it will give a flavour of some of the cutting-edge research made possible through innovative use of ICT, go into more detail about some of the barriers to wider uptake and show how one of the projects, ENGage Academic Groups with E-Infrastructure (ENGAGE), has worked to lower some of these barriers through targeted solution development. Finally, it will aim to provoke discussion on what JISC, institutions and policy makers should do next to fuel the innovative use of ICT in research. |
| Aims and objectives |
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Highlight findings of the e-research community engagement projects, Enabling Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services (e-Uptake), ENGAGE and e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS), in different research disciplines including the arts and humanities
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Showcase some of the new communications material produced by the projects
- Encourage discussion about the next steps that need to be taken to stimulate new uses of ICT in research
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| Who should attend? |
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JISC Committee members
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JISC service provider management
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Computing services management
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Research computing services
- Researchers
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| Approximate capacity of session |
50 |
| Speakers |
- Matthew Dovey, Programme Director, JISC (Session Chair)
- Gabriel Hanganu, Oxford University
- Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK
- Professor Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
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