Charting a course for community success: Implementing a new strategy for the RSE Australia New Zealand community
Nooriyah Lohani1, Manodeep Sinha4, Rowland Mosbergen2, Janet Stacey3 1New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, Auckland New Zealand2Walter Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne Australia3The institute of environmental science and research, Auckland New Zealand4Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia
Abstract
Background:
Over the last 6 years, the RSE community has grown rapidly within the New Zealand and Australian research sector. The RSE AUNZ steering committee was formally established in 2018 to support RSEs in New Zealand and Australia by raising awareness, advocating for RSEs and providing RSEs opportunities to connect through events, talks, and shared knowledge. The community has now evolved into a group of over 400 individuals and a renewed approach was needed.
This evolution has created limitations which include:
– Finite resources against growing needs
– Competing priorities to progress goals
– Lack of actionable key results for the high level goals
– Documentation of the strategy to the community members and sector leaders
– Difficulty in replacing outgoing steering committee members
Actions:
Over the last year, while adapting to post pandemic life, the committee pivoted our approach to help serve our growing community better. The committee has worked on co-designing a strategy with the community which clearly defines goals and key results for the upcoming years. This strategy document received positive community feedback and it is publicly available via Figshare.
In this BoF we would like to have a dialogue with RSE’s and RSE advocates about the 2023-2025 strategy, the feedback we received from the community and planning future work-streams that align with prioritised goals. We hope to use the time in the sessions to start working groups on 2-3 key priorities for the community.
Biography
Nooriyah has a background in bioinformatics and data science. She is a research communities advisor at the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure and co-chair of the RSE AUNZ steering committee.
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