ResearchOps - Kate Towsey at UX Brighton 2018

In March 2018, the ResearchOps Community was formed with the intention of validating and shaping the practice of ResearchOps. Since then, the Community Slack has grown to 1000+ members and many more are part of the conversation in person or on Twitter.

Core to the Community has been a global research initiative called #WhatisResearchOps. A team of 60 researchers have worked together to run 32 workshops around the world to ask researchers about their challenges and triumphs, and their expectations of ResearchOps. To make sure they reached people who couldn’t get to a workshop, they also ran a survey. In total, more than 800 people have taken part in the initiative.

In this talk, Kate shares the background to the Community, what they’ve learned from #WhatisResearchOps, and the first iteration of the framework. Kate speaks on behalf of TeamReOps: all the organisers and thinkers from around the world who’ve donated countless hours to the effort and are making ResearchOps what it is today.