The purpose of this session is to discuss the nomadic
but often embedded digital all-rounders in the
academic community who support research. They go
by many names but often share similar skill sets as
competent communicators, problem solvers,
teachers, researchers and agents of change. They
support a variety of areas that can include Open
Access, scholarly communications, impact, social and
traditional media, copyright, research technologies
and horizon scanning. They don’t exist as an umbrella
group - perhaps it is time that such a community
existed. Given the success of the learning technology community, isn’t it time we had a research
equivalent?