Description
With the ever more team-based nature of research, ensuring efficient and effective connections between team members across different fields and roles is a vital part of the research process. This has led to an increasing number of dedicated research facilitation roles. This is especially important in the High Performance Computing (HPC) space where research computing infrastructure professionals may speak a very different technical language to the researchers from a wide range of different domains who are using the infrastructure they support and maintain.
In this session we hope to understand more about what support research facilitators can provide to the community and how we can elevate the role of the research facilitator from something that often appears as an afterthought when planning project teams and institutional infrastructure, to a core, highly-valued team role.
The session will focus specifically on the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) context, and in particular HPC. We’re looking to understand more about, and raise awareness of, all types of research facilitation support in the DRI/HPC space, from public engagement and community building, through training activities to more low-level aspects around technical support.