The research manager is a title that is becoming more and more common in the university world. In short, a research manager is the supportive and facilitating function in the university administration that supports the researchers and research teams towards public funding. And with this of course also EU funding.

The increasing importance of EU funding to universities throughout Europe has raised the importance and numbers of research managers. However, the role is still falling somewhat in-between several chairs in the traditionally conservative world of universities and recognition of the importance of the role is still lacking behind.

More and more posts on the topic of Research Managers pops up in my LinkedIn feed and, hence, I decided to reach out to one of my contacts to explain about the role and share with you all and me about the importance of the work that is carried out.Alice Barbaglio is a Research Advisor and project manager at European Institute of Oncology and has been working as a research manager for several years. She is actively sharing her views about the research manager role on LinkedIn and she is an ambassador in the Horizon Europe funded project RM Roadmap that has focus on the research manager role.

This episode offers insights on the crucial core elements of the research manager role and inspiration on how to navigate in this role. It is recommended to both new and experienced research managers.