eResearch Culture: An Ecological Metaphor

Kate Nolan

• What is eResearch and how does it fit with the research management service role?

• What is the function of eResearch?• An ecology metaphor - shifting the service

delivery paradigm• A ‘Precision Agriculture’ example

Research at the cutting edge

Structure follows function:

What kinds of research opportunities, human dynamics and cultural shifts are we wanting to enable for our research communities?

What is the function of eResearch?

eResearch functions:

Across discipline, multidisciplinary and/or inter disciplinary research

Collaborative research

Data intensive research

Open research engagement

Inter institutional research

eResearch culture: An ecological metaphorResearch EcosystemHow do we function?

What roles do we play?How do we create

and nurture a symbiotic culture

of speciesInterrelationship?Researchers

Research components

Professional service

expertise

An integrated coordinated model of professional service delivery

Research and

Enterprise team

ITS Library eLearning support

Marketing and

communication

Human resources

Building an integrated and coordinated professional support service

Operationalising and delivering professional support service expertise

The Research and Enterprise Support Service Ecosystem

Research Development

Advisors Business team

Commercial and

Enterprise teamEthics

Team

Graduate Research

School

Information management

systems team

Contract team

Multi Disciplinary Integrated/Coordinated Professional

Services

How do we fit together?

The Integrated/Coordinated Professional Services/Researcher

Partnership

The model in action: a pilot study

SCommercialPrecision

Agriculture

Commercial product to market

Data intensive researchIndustryStakeholder engagement

Teaching and Post graduate programme development

CoordinatedSupport service

Precision Agriculture ecosystem at Massey University

Support services are here to enable not to police

Ecology is a useful metaphor Embrace the concept of

researcher/support service partnerships