Academic Burden

UK

The UK’s European university

24th Oct 2016, Toronto Simon Kerridge Director of Research Services

orcid.org/0000-0003-4094-3719 @SimonRKerridge #casraiCA16 s.r.kerridge@kent.ac.uk

Board Member Immediate Past Chair, ARMA The Association of Research Managers and Administrators

CASRAI Reconnect16

Academic Burden UK

• ~150 Universities + research institutes ~200,000 academic researchers

• 7 Research Councils + Innovate UK, Wellcome, Academies…. Etc

• Luckily all the funder systems are the same… • And the grant requirements too!

• … not

Academic Burden UK - Infrastructure

• University Systems (RMAS/CRIS/ERA)

• Funder Systems • Je-S ( RIFS), GtR, Researchfish • FlexiGrants ( eGAP) • REF • EPSS, NIH, …

• ORCID, DOI • OrgID? • … other iDs still needed

• NRII?

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Simon Kerridge, EARMA 2012, Dublin, 9th July 2012

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Simon Kerridge, EARMA 2012, Dublin, 9th July 2012

• Initial Framework available to use (March 2012) • Moving to full RMAS-CERIF compliance (March 2013) • Pathfinder work has shown that:

• Use of Framework saves £35K per procurement (or £14K) • On going efficiency examples:

• Proposals: £60 per application • Post Award: £70 per project per annum • Outputs Management: £70 per academic per annum

• Ability to exchange and reuse data • Estimated £375K per annum for a University like Exeter

RMAS Benefits - Summary

Simon Kerridge, EARMA 2012, Dublin, 9th July 2012

Possible NRII Approach

6 Jul 2016 Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 8

The Advantages

Government-related Bodies / Research funders

HEIs Researchers

• Scalable, flexible research reporting/ management

• Richer and more reliable source of information

• Record and analyse research across the research base

• Improved data quality and reliability

• Better benchmarking and business intelligence

• Simpler submission of REF return

• CRIS for small HEIs

• Comply with new policies

• Reduced administration

• Improved business intelligence to inform career development

6 Jul 2016

Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 9

The Challenges

6 Jul 2016

Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 10

Government-related Bodies / Research Funders

HEIs Researchers

Effort to secure mandate for early delivery of light touch central UK RIS Investment to build the infrastructure

Interface local systems and central warehouse Procedures for data exchange and governance

Potential greater scrutiny from University

What would this mean for REF 20/21?

» Avoid slump-spike cycle » Reduced costs of submission » Improve openness, transparency

and accountability » Permanent research record » Greater access to REF data » Facilitate development of

national priorities

6 Jul 2016

Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 11

NRII: the business case

£4m a year

6 Jul 2016

Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 12

Next steps

» Phase 1 › Agree design and standards

» Phase 2 › Initial Central RIS and Data

Warehouse » Phase 3:

› Enrich NRII functionality

6 Jul 2016

Efficient infrastructure for UK research – from http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/closing-plenary-john-wilkin-and-david-maguire 13

Academic Burden UK – All Solved

• Erm… no

• Although we have Jisc… • It does not bring all the high level stakeholders

together… in one place, at the same time

• We now have CASRAI-UK ( more tomorrow) • A great opportunity to make a difference • Need to learn from the FDP model • We have a HEFCE VfM driver

• The timing could be right

• The stars may be aligning

Questions

If not, I have a joke I could tell…

Or just check out http://casrai.org/uk

s.r.kerridge@kent.ac.uk @SimonRKerridge

THE UK’S EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

www.kent.ac.uk