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Opening plenary

08 September 2009

By Tristram Hooley

I really enjoyed the opening plenary at #vitae09. The twitter discussion worked really well and I think enabled the conversations to develop in some really interesting ways.

Contributions from Ian Diamond, Brigid Heywood and Alexandre Quintahila raised issues around the future of Roberts, inter-disciplinarity and the role that Web 2.0 has in the research infrastructure.

For me the main issue to come out of it was that we need to rethink what the training of researchers needs to include. How should trainers and developers respond to a world where new communication technologies and a need for greater levels of inter-disciplinary research are increasingly important? What kinds of skills do we need to be developing to support researchers in responding to these changing emphases in the research environment?

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