The third Vitae conference took place on 6 and 7 September and was very well received. The event focused on the rationale, models and practice for sustaining researcher development for the long term future.
A number of initiatives and projects were launched or explored at the Vitae conference, including:
- latest developments from the Research Councils in relation to the Roberts' agenda,
- the launch of a major report ‘Impact of researcher training and development: two years on'
- an update on the recently launched Researcher Development Statement and Framework
- two major additions to the ‘What do researchers do?' research series:
- launching, with ARMA, Occasional Paper No 5 of Issues in Research Management and Administration, ‘Hard Times? Building and Sustaining Research Capacity in UK Universities'.
Extracts from the conference have been available from day two of the conference via iTunes, and further content will be released over the next few days. For those of you with iPhones you should be able to stream the podcast directly by searching for 'Vitae' in iTunes iPhone app.
You can subscribe to it on iTunes directly.
If you do not have access to iTunes, you can listen to the podcasts at http://vitae.podomatic.com/