Introducing PRISMs!

Is your job title research project manager, centre manager, programme manager, network manager, or similar? Do you enable research, for example by managing a research community, producing strategies, developing grant proposals, and implementing business operations to grow the research area you manage together with the academics in your team? Do you find that you are neither an academic in the traditional sense, nor that your role sits well within professional services, as it grows and changes depending on how the research portfolio in your team evolves?

Maybe you’re actually a PRISM! A Professional Research Investment and Strategy Manager!

Founded in April 2020, the PRISM network pursues two main aims:

• To bring the widely dispersed PRISM community across the UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) together.
• To engage with UKRI on a cultural shift for research teams in HEIs, which includes better recognition and progression pathways for PRISM roles.

If you think you might be, have a look at the PRISM website and subscribe at https://www.pris-managers.ac.uk/

For more questions please get in touch with Dr Anja Roeding, a.roeding@exeter.ac.uk.