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The Annual Researcher Community Showcase – 2024

14 April 2025
Rhiannon Robinson

Rhiannon Robinson

The Researcher Community Showcase

The annual Researcher Community Showcase provides an opportunity to learn about the research taking place across the University, and how Cardiff University supports your work and your careers. We invite anyone who has an interest in research at Cardiff and so it’s also a great opportunity to meet and network with other staff from your college and further afield!

Programme content

Session 1: Welcome and Introduction

The event was opened by our Dean of Research Environment and Culture, Prof Karin Wahl-Jorgensen. Prof Wahl-Jorgensen chairs the Researcher Pathways Working Group which coordinates the activity taking place as part of the Researcher Development Concordat Action Plan. These events are part of Cardiff University’s commitment to support research staff and their careers.

Session 2: The Researcher Showcase

This year’s Researcher Showcase theme was ‘Co-creating research with user communities and interdisciplinary colleagues’. The panel, made up of the College Deans of Research (Prof Claire Gorrara, AHSS; Prof Kerry Hood, BLS; Prof Carrie Lear, PSE), selected 5 excellent speakers to present their work (see below):

  • Aurora Goodwin (School of Healthcare Sciences)

Engaging user communities in the development of WISH: the Workforce Insights Survey for Health.

How curiosity affects learning and memory – a co-production approach.

Co-creating air quality citizen science with diverse communities and interdisciplinary colleagues (Blog)

Co-creating research with user communities and interdisciplinary colleagues (Blog)

Cathays Futures: Innovating approaches to knowledge mobilisation and co-production (Blog)

Session 3: Supporting Research Staff at Cardiff

Dr Rhiannon Robinson (Organisational and Staff Development Officer for Research Staff) presented a summary of the Researcher Development Concordat process and some updates about progress against the commitments we’ve made to improve the employment and support for researchers and their careers.

The main aim of this event is to provide a platform for a 2-way conversation between the University and the research community. So, as part of this session, we invited a panel of representatives from research support, HR and researchers from each of the colleges: The panellists shared what they saw as the priorities from the action plan from their perspectives and then the conversation was opened up to the audience for comments and questions.

Next year?

We will be running this event again in Autumn 2025. If you would like join in, please look out for information in emails and in Blas etc. about how to apply to present or to register to attend.