Programme

Day 1 - 8 September 2008

Conference Chair: Professor Mary Ritter, Pro Rector, Postgraduate and International Affairs, Imperial College London

 
09.30
Conference Registration opens

11.00
Welcome and introduction
Dr Janet Metcalfe, Chair and Head, Vitae

11.15 
Plenary Session 1
Drivers for research in a changing global context
Professor Jean Chambaz, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

11.35
Plenary Session 1
Research aspiration in an age of professionalism
Professor Sir Richard Brook, Director, The Leverhulme Trust

11.55
Plenary Session 1
Responding to a changing environment: a UK HEI perspective
Professor Ella Ritchie. Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, University of Newscastle

12.15
Reflecting on key themes
Group discussion

12.45
Q&A panel session with morning speakers

13.15
Buffet lunch, Networking and Exhibition

14.30
Workshop session A 

15.40
Workshop session B

16.45
Tea and facilitated networking sessions

17.30
Fringe Sessions (optional) 

19.15
Wine reception

20.00
Dinner 

Day 2 - 9 September 2008

09.30
Vitae – future developments
Ellen Pearce, Director, Vitae

09.40
Plenary session 2
Panel discussions and questions chaired by Jeffrey Defries, Chief Executive, CRAC
Strategies for sustaining personal and career support for researchers

• Professor Philip Esler, Chief Executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Dr Andrew Dearing, Secretary General, European Industrial Research Management Association - link to slide
• Martin Owen, Director, Medrus Learning - link to slide
• Professor Margaret Atack, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Leeds - link to slide
• Dr Patrick Hadoke, Research Fellow, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh - link to slide

10.45
Coffee, Networking and Exhibition

11.15
Workshop session C

12.45
Lunch, Networking and Exhibition

14.00
Workshop session D

15.30
Plenary Session 3
Making an impact – creating the future
Richard Reeves, Director, DEMOS

16.00
Conference closing
Dr Janet Metcalfe, Chair and Head, Vitae

16.10
Tea and end of conference