Research Application Management

Developing research outputs for real-world problem solving while ensuring openness and reproducibility

Introduction

Research Application Managers (RAMs) focus on the sustainability and impact of research, guiding the development and use of research outputs for a broad set of stakeholders. The role of a RAM was created at the Turing to help fill the gaps between purely academic knowledge generation and the work that is required to create and maintain user-friendly tools that can be used to address questions beyond the scope of the original research field.

RAM

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What skills do RAMs bring to research teams?

RAMs think beyond the research project cycle, creating opportunities to reuse and reproduce research outputs in new real-world applications. At the Turing, RAMs bring product development and stakeholder engagement skills to research teams and cultivate a practice of open collaboration, encouraging interconnectedness of research within the Institute and beyond. RAM engagements can begin at any time in the project lifecycle, and we encourage researchers to reach out to the RAM team as early as possible so that we can incorporate the user perspective and consider possible applications in the development of research outputs. 

As a team, we develop and deliver an end-to-end stakeholder engagement strategy focused on adapting research outputs to be more user friendly. This includes deliverables like:

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Requirements gathering & alignment
  • User-centred design
  • Research output development roadmapping
  • Workshop delivery

Learn more about our work and access our tools and insights here.

Examples of our work

Get in Touch

To learn more about RAMs or how to apply RAM methodologies in your research project, get in touch with our team at [email protected].

Organisers

Dr Kalle Westerling

Research Application Manager, Turing Research and Innovation Cluster in Digital Twins (TRIC-DT)

Dr Sophie Arana

Research Application Manager, Turing Research and Innovation Cluster in Digital Twins (TRIC-DT)