URMAN holds regular networking and information events throughout the year and provides resources to members. Sign up on the membership tab:URMAN welcomes applications from all personnel with a research manager or administrator role in UCD and all personnel in Support Units

providing services to Researchers. New members are invited to meet with members of the Advisory Group for a monthly informal welcome and inductionover coffee.

If you would like to become more involved, consider joining one of our working groups:

• Events Working Group
• Membership & Communications Working Group
• Career Development Working Group
• AIREN Working Group

Join the conversations in our (opens in a new window)Google Currents Community and (opens in a new window)LinkedIn URMAN network. You can get in touch with URMAN Advisory Group through (opens in a new window)urmanexec@ucd.ie

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(opens in a new window)https://airen.network/

University College Dublin (UCD), Ulster University (Ulster) and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have joined forces to connect Research Managers and Administrators across the island of Ireland. The AIREN project, which runs from 2021 – 2023, is being delivered with support from InterTrade Ireland’s Synergy initiative. 

Sign up on the membership tab,and join the Away Days, Workshops and Conference to deliver the following 3 objectives: 

• Share Research Management best practice and knowledge
• Identify and develop research thematic areas and maximise funding opportunities
• Establish an All-Island Research Excellence Network

UCD is an institutional member of EARMA, so all research managers and administrators working in UCD are eligible to be members. This can be arranged through the institutional contact point, Xuefang Alterman (opens in a new window)xuefang.alterman@ucd.ie 
EARMA provides a useful European network, and provides training and events throughout the year, including an annual conference. 

The UCD Researcher Portal includes a comprehensive suite of documents, information and points of contact, spanning the entire research project lifecycle, based on the “researcher journey”. It is a “one stop shop” of virtually all the resources needed to manage Research within UCD.

http://www.ucd.ie/peopledevelopment/ourservices/newtoucd

UCD People & Organisation Development, a part of HR, has a landing page for Supporting New Starters. This provides links to

• Work@UCDpage
• UCD onboarding pageisavailable through InfoHub which provides comprehensive checklists, information and actions pre-arrival, first week and first month
• information on booking the centralised Orientation for New EmployeesProgramme which is run a number of times per year
• information on the Local Induction Processwhich includes a Local Induction Checklist and Employee Orientation Policy document and a number of other resources.