Christopher Brown

Role

I am a programme manager in the Digital Infrastructure team with responsibility for the Access and Identity Management (AIM) programme and also the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) programme, which is now incorporated into the Research Programme.

The AIM programme has a focus on process, policy and technology, exploring innovative new areas in all three and forming a natural complement to work being completed under the Services banner on the UK federation.

The purpose of the VRE programme is to define and help to develop the frameworks and associated standards and to encourage the development and population of VREs with applications, services and resources appropriate to the needs of researchers. This work is now included within the Research Programme, where the outputs from the programme will assist research groups with collaborating, exploiting e-infrastructure and helping to build communities within and across domains.