Programme Speakers
Ian Carter
Ian Carter is currently the Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Sussex, where he is responsible for the research and knowledge exchange portfolio, including the University’s research strategy and policy development, oversight of all externally-funded research and knowledge exchange, and the Doctoral School. He played a leading role in the introduction of full economic costing nationally, and has also been involved in the RAE processes.
He sits on the UK Research Councils’ Joint Grants Processing Steering Group (under which he chairs the Research Organisation Consultation Group), and was a member of the Research Councils’ Dual Support Reform Project Board. He is a member of the BUFDG Costing and Pricing Group, and of that Group’s Technical Advisory Sub-Group. He is a member of HEFCE’s Technical Sounding Board for the Research Excellence Framework, of the Expert Panel overseeing RCUK’s Study on Open Access to Research Outputs, and of UUK’s working group on managing open access publication fees. He was a member of the Research Councils’ Je-S Implementation Project Board and Research Administration Programme Board, and also of the PPARC CRS Working Group. He is the Chair of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK), and is a leading member of the Brunswick Group. He is a member of the International Committee of the US-based Society of Research Administrators International, and is a current Distinguished Faculty of that society.
Previously, he worked at the University of Liverpool (2005-2008) where he was Director of Research, and at the University of Glasgow (1992-2004) where he was latterly Director of Research Development. At Liverpool he was similarly responsible for all research and knowledge transfer policy and activity, and led the introduction of a new research management system, along with numbers of new research policies. At Glasgow he was responsible for the creation of the Research Office (1992), the implementation of an integrated institutional research management system (1994), involved in the establishment of Research & Enterprise (1997), managed two RAEs (1996 and 2001), developed the institution’s research strategy, and initiated the introduction of full economic costing. Whilst at Glasgow he was a leading member of the Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium. Prior to that, he worked at the SERC-funded Engineering Design Research Centre (1990-1993), and for NEI Parsons (1983-1990). His degrees are in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Design & Management Systems. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Chartered Management Institute.
