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Session presentation What are virtual researchers up to? VREs and their users Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist) OCLC Research

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What are virtual researchers up to? VREs and their users
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist) OCLC Research

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Session abstract
This session will report on the findings of recent studies which have looked into how researchers use digital and information technologies in their research. These include the JISC ‘Early Career Researchers’ study and ‘Towards a profile of the researcher of today: what can we learn from JISC projects’. We will also present interim results from the joint JISC/British Library ‘Researcher of Tomorrow’ study. Delegates will be able to explore how the studies’ findings apply to their own researchers and the provisions institutions need to make to support the whole community of users, including pioneering trail blazers and those who lag behind in the use of digital technologies for research. This will lead to a debate about how the whole community can develop together.
Session Chair Laura James, Project Manager, CARET Cambridge Speakers Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Laura James, Project Manager CARET, CARET Cambridge Joanna Newman, Head of Higher Education, British Library Charles Hutchings, Market Research Manager, JISC
What can delegates expect to learn/gain/take away from the session? Delegates will learn about the results of three important studies into the future behaviour of researchers around information and e-infrastructure and will take away a briefing paper summarising the studies’ key findings. This will enable them to think how these results apply to their own institutions and the provisions they need to make. It will also enable them to develop strategies for supporting the whole community of users including stragglers and trail blazers.
Who should attend? Researchers, research support managers, senior management, IT managers.
Room Rutherford, 4th floor

Session abstract

This session will report on the findings of recent studies which have looked into how researchers use digital and information technologies in their research. These include the JISC ‘Early Career Researchers’ study and ‘Towards a profile of the researcher of today: what can we learn from JISC projects’. We will also present interim results from the joint JISC/British Library ‘Researcher of Tomorrow’ study.

Delegates will be able to explore how the studies’ findings apply to their own researchers and the provisions institutions need to make to support the whole community of users, including pioneering trail blazers and those who lag behind in the use of digital technologies for research. This will lead to a debate about how the whole community can develop together.

Session Chair

Laura James, Project Manager, CARET Cambridge

Speakers

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
Laura James, Project Manager CARET, CARET Cambridge
Joanna Newman, Head of Higher Education, British Library
Charles Hutchings, Market Research Manager, JISC

What can delegates expect to learn/gain/take away from the session?

Delegates will learn about the results of three important studies into the future behaviour of researchers around information and e-infrastructure and will take away a briefing paper summarising the studies’ key findings. This will enable them to think how these results apply to their own institutions and the provisions they need to make. It will also enable them to develop strategies for supporting the whole community of users including stragglers and trail blazers.

Who should attend?

Researchers, research support managers, senior management, IT managers.

Room

Rutherford, 4th floor

JISC