INORMS 2027 - 11th INORMS Congress

INORMS 2027 - 11th INORMS Congress takes place on 28–30 April 2027 at Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal. B2DB lists 170 sessions.

The Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA) hosts the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Congress in Montréal, Canada, from April 27-30, 2027, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. The Congress program is developed in partnership with ADARUQ, NCURA and NORDP, and includes workshops, conference sessions, posters and study tours for research management and administration professionals.

Key facts

Agenda (170 sessions)

Day 1 — Monday 26 April 2027

• NSE Study Tour 08:00–16:00 · Hotel Monville Lobby / Offsite
• SSH/Interdisciplinary Study Tour 08:45–16:00 · Hotel Monville Lobby / Offsite
• Health Study Tour 08:45–16:00 · Hotel Monville Lobby / Offsite

Day 2 — Tuesday 27 April 2027

• Allyship in research administration: How research administrators can support Indigenous and community-engaged research. 08:30–11:45 · 519
• The Impact Clinic: Collective Prescriptions for Research Impact Challenges 08:30–11:45 · 518 BC
• Transforming Post-Award Administration: Two Complementary Policy Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Implementation 08:30–11:45 · 520 AD
• Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Readability and Believability in Research Grant Applications 08:30–11:45 · 521
• Conversations for Leading: Navigating Difficult Conversations in Complex Research Environments 08:30–11:45 · 524 A
• From Control to Stewardship: Practical Approaches in Research Finance 08:30–11:45 · 524 BC
• From Compliance to Culture Change: A Faculty-Wide Approach to Advancing Equity in Research 08:30–11:45 · 525
• RAAAP-4: Policies on the use of AI in Research Management and Administration 08:30–11:45 · 520 BE
• College Best Practices 08:30–11:45 · Monville
• Responsible AI in Proposal Development 08:30–11:45 · 522
• Same Mission, Different Drivers - What Shapes Research Culture? 08:30–11:45 · 520 CF
• Embedding Equity in Collaborative Research Proposal Development: Practical Tools and Strategies from the EquiPD Project 13:15–16:30 · 525
• RD for Institutional Funding Strategy: Building Teams to Compete 13:15–16:30 · 520 AD
• Beyond Grants: Building Strategic Researcher Development Programs to Transform Research Culture 13:15–16:30 · 520 CF
• Reimagining Research Assessment: A Design Lab 13:15–16:30 · 520 BE
• Leading in the Middle: Navigating Workplace Challenges, Stress, and Influence Without Authority 13:15–16:30 · 521
• Organizing Research Management and Administration for Success: Global Models, Structures, and Efficiencies 13:15–16:30 · 524 A
• Research Security in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Identifying Risks and Mitigation Strategies | Sécurité de la recherche en sciences sociales et en sciences humaines : Identification des risques et des mesures d’atténuation 13:15–16:30 · 518 BC
• Bringing SCOPE to Life: A facilitator’s guide to developing responsible evaluations 13:15–16:30 · 524 BC
• Building a Sovereign AI Service for Grant Development: A Hands-On Design Workshop with Local LLMs 13:15–16:30 · 522
• Promoting Indigenous Knowledge through Decolonisation and Equitable Benefit-Sharing 13:15–16:30 · 519
• First-timers Agenda Review 16:30–17:00 · 518 BC

Day 3 — Wednesday 28 April 2027

• A Profession Comes of Age: A Decade of Global Trends and Perspectives from the RAAAP Surveys 08:00–08:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• From calculators to Generative AI: Automating, augmenting, and keeping research administration human-led 09:00–09:45 · 520 AD
• Which partnerships should we invest in? Turning international research strategy into institutional decision-making 09:00–09:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Beyond Seed Funding: What Really Builds Research Capacity? 09:00–09:45 · 524 A
• What Builds Reviewer Confidence? Turning Institutional Evidence into Research Development Insight 09:00–09:45 · 521
• Telling The Story Through the Budget Proposal: Effective Costing and Pricing of Research 09:00–09:45 · 524 BC
• Sector-Wide Research Security Resilience: Supporting Smaller Postsecondary Institutions Through Collaboration 09:00–09:45 · 522
• From Bullet Points to Prose: Navigating Canada's Narrative CV Transition 09:00–09:45 · 525
• From Intelligence to Action: Adaptable Research Management Tools for Translating National Research Priorities into Institutional Strategy 09:00–09:45 · 520 BE
• New Tool, Same Rules; Supporting Competitive Research Proposals with AI: A European Research Office Perspective 09:00–09:45 · 520 CF
• Navigating the Menopause Transition in Research Management and Administration 09:00–09:45 · 518 BC
• Moving towards Equity in Research Management in Southeast Asia 09:00–09:45 · 519
• Research Finance Dashboards for Researchers and Senior Leadership: Delivering Value 10:00–10:45 · 525
• Research Managers and the Future of Public Engagement 10:00–10:45 · 520 CF
• Beyond the Cladding: A Relational Decision Guide for Ethical Indigenous Research Engagement and Partnerships 10:00–10:45 · 519
• Strategizing Institutional Value: A Guide to Evidence-Based Impact Narratives 10:00–10:45 · 520 BE
• Empowering Research Managers for Career Growth 10:00–10:45 · 520 AD
• From policy to practice: barriers to operationalising Wellcome’s funding policies across a global research system 10:00–10:45 · 524 A
• Developing a Coaching Mindset: An Essential Leadership Skill for Research Administrators 10:00–10:45 · 521
• Moving beyond broad research security principles to practical, measurable benchmarks: A new perspective 10:00–10:45 · 522
• Supporting Researchers in a Disrupted Publishing Landscape 10:00–10:45 · 518 BC
• From Hesitance to Appropriate Use: AI in Proposal Development Across Research Management and Administration 10:00–10:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Strategic Support and Best Practices for Research Centres and Institutes: Preliminary Insights from an International Survey 10:00–10:45 · 524 BC
• Towards Excellence in Research Management through Cross-Institutional Knowledge Sharing 11:00–11:45 · 524 A
• Exploratory Study on Knowledge Security Risks within Erasmus MC 11:00–11:45 · 522
• I Crossed the Line: And I Can't Unsee What I Saw 11:00–11:45 · 521
• Beyond Reconciliation: Strategic Post-Award Financial Management 11:00–11:45 · 525
• Beyond Funding: The FRQ Model for Building a Research Ecosystem 11:00–11:45 · 518 BC
• Partner engagement for large-scale grants 11:00–11:45 · 520 CF
• From Reactive Support to Anticipatory Leadership: Building Futures Capability in Research Management 11:00–11:45 · 524 BC
• From Training to Dashboards: A Layered Approach to Research Intelligence and Reporting 11:00–11:45 · 520 BE
• Is Your Data Headed in the Right Direction? Building Research Analytics & Evaluation Capacity Through the REACH Global Network 11:00–11:45 · 520 AD
• Strategic Solidarity: Rebalancing Research Management Systems Through Equitable North-South Partnerships 11:00–11:45 · 519
• When the System Has to Change: Rethinking Merit Review and Research Administration for Indigenous-Led Research 13:15–14:00 · 518 BC
• Sustaining Scientific Diplomacy in Uncertain Times 13:15–14:00 · 522
• Facilitation Fluency 13:15–14:00 · 520 CF
• Architecting Your Unique Career Path in Global Research Administration 13:15–14:00 · 524 BC
• Can the Team Deliver What the Proposal Promises? An Execution Readiness Test for Research 13:15–14:00 · 520 BE
• Who Gets What Support? How Three Universities Organize Research Development 13:15–14:00 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Someone Should Probably Do Something About That: Curiosity, Persistence, and More Equitable Research Support 13:15–14:00 · 520 AD
• Design the Seams, Not the Silos: Making Distributed Research Development Support Feel Joined Up 13:15–14:00 · 521
• Beyond the keyboard: Rethinking Research Administration Through Immersive Learning 13:15–14:00 · 519
• Research managers play a crucial role in managing multi-institutional capacity strengthening programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A case study of a nationally funded Clinical Research Training Fellowship program 13:15–14:00 · 524 A
• When the Sponsor Does Not Pay: Managing Bad Debt and Institutional Risk in Sponsored Research 13:15–14:00 · 525
• When peer review collapses under the barrage of AI-assisted funding applications, what comes next? Are research offices ready? 14:00–14:45 · 524 A
• Research Professional Futures: We Are All Here for the Research 14:00–14:45 · 520 CF
• Generative Facilitation for Decision-Making: Navigating Power, Participation, and Research Collaboration 14:00–14:45 · 520 AD
• Global Research, Local Rules: Navigating Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration 14:00–14:45 · 519
• Ready or Not: A Practical Framework for AI Adoption in Research Support Offices 14:00–14:45 · 520 BE
• The Future-ready Research Data Management Professional - Barriers and Practical Development Mechanisms to Overcome them 14:00–14:45 · 524 BC
• Mitacs: Navigating Post-Award Administration Through Institutional and Funder Perspectives 14:00–14:45 · 525
• Making the Machinery Feel Human: Aligning Employee and Customer Experience in University Research Administration 14:00–14:45 · 521
• Institutional Readiness for Defence Research Funding: The Critical Role of the Grants Office 14:00–14:45 · 522
• Update from the Canada Foundation for Innovation 14:00–14:45 · 518 BC
• Beyond Compliance: Building Trust in Research Ethics Governance - Lessons from a South African University 15:00–15:45 · 521
• The Invisible Backbone: Professional Research Management as a Strategic Capacity for Multinational Research Collaboration 15:00–15:45 · 520 AD
• MIRA: Building a Sovereign, Institution-Owned AI Infrastructure for Research Proposal Development 15:00–15:45 · 520 BE
• From Application to Impact: How Canadian Funders Are Leading Global Adoption of PIDs for Awards 15:00–15:45 · 518 BC
• Infonetica - Diamond Sponsor 15:00–15:45 · 524 A
• Trust by Design: Integrating Strategy, Ethics and Quality Across the Research Lifecycle 15:00–15:45 · 524 BC
• REIMAGINING RESEARCH MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA: TOWARDS AN INDIGENOUS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK 15:00–15:45 · 519
• Beyond 'Death by Spreadsheet': Building Sustainable Grant Administration Workflows and Management Using monday.com and AI Automations 15:00–15:45 · 525
• From New Zealand to Norway: An Antipodal Journey of Learning, Connecting and Exploring Horizon Europe Post-Awards Management 15:00–15:45 · 522
• Enhancing European Commission Funding Engagement Through RMA Collaboration: Shared Learning and Best Practice between University of Saskatchewan and King’s College London 16:00–16:45 · 521
• Diplomatic Leadership: The Human Side of International Research Collaboration[ 16:00–16:45 · 519
• Establishing the Cameroon National Research & Innovation Management Agency (NARIM): A Multi-Sectoral Framework for Research Sovereignty and Domestic Funding 16:00–16:45 · 518 BC
• From Patient Voice to Research Strategy: The Role of Research Managers in Institutionalising Equitable Patient Involvement in Clinical Research 16:00–16:45 · 520 AD
• Mohawk Certificates 16:00–16:45 · 524 A
• Navigating EU Research Funding: From Canadian Social Sciences to European Collaboration (Including South Korea, Japan and New Zealand) 16:00–16:45 · 520 BE
• No straight lines: what an unconventional career brings to research management 16:00–16:45 · 524 BC
• Research Contract Drafting: Deviation from Test Standards Referenced in a Research Project Agreement 16:00–16:45 · 522
• Research Finance Structures: Exploring Roles, Compliance, and Centralization 16:00–16:45 · 520 CF
• Storm in the funding landscape: a survival guide for RM leaders 16:00–16:45 · 525

Day 4 — Thursday 29 April 2027

• Springer Nature - Platinum Sponsor 09:00–09:45 · 524 A
• From Local Practice to International Exposure: Turning Art and Design Pedagogy into Practice-Based Research 09:00–09:45 · 525
• Civic Innovation Lab Update: How to Make Municipal-Academic Research Collaboration Thrive 09:00–09:45 · 522
• Five Pillars, One Strategy: Advancing Research Capacity, Competitiveness, and Impact 09:00–09:45 · 519
• Supporting international research through strategic research infrastructure investments 09:00–09:45 · 518 BC
• Beyond the Back Office: Elevating Post-Award Through Better Award Management 09:00–09:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Beyond Digitization: Designing Research Administration Workflows That Work 09:00–09:45 · 521
• Tri-Agency Update 09:00–09:45 · 520
• From AI Pilot to Institutional Practice: Scaling AI-Enabled Research Support Across Funding Schemes 09:00–09:45 · 524 BC
• Rebuilding the professoriate pipeline: The Mandela Imvuselelo Programme for accelerating research leadership and institutional impact 10:00–10:45 · 524 BC
• Mentoring Our Own 10:00–10:45 · 525
• Rapid Development of an AI Assisted Research Management Solution 10:00–10:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• From Hidden Work to Visible Value: Standardizing Research Grant Compliance Reviews for Improved Consistency, Transparency, and Efficiency 10:00–10:45 · 521
• The Johannesburg Statement on Research Security: Articulating a Southern African Perspective on Secure and Responsible International Research Collaboration 10:00–10:45 · 519
• The Future of Researcher Development: Perspectives from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 10:00–10:45 · 522
• From Data to Strategic Intelligence: Informing Research and Innovation Planning at Université Laval 10:00–10:45 · 524 A
• CIHR Update 10:00–10:45 · 520
• Ctrl + Connect Research Admin Networking Card Game 10:00–10:45 · 518 BC
• Building Equitable Global Research Partnerships: Lessons from Coordinating Multi-Country Grants in West Africa 11:00–11:45 · 525
• Building Sustainable Transatlantic Partnerships: Lessons from a Durham-Notre Dame Institutional Collaboration 11:00–11:45 · 518 BC
• Benchmarking AI Governance: A Global Evaluation of University Policies for Research Integrity 11:00–11:45 · 522
• Sponsor 1 11:00–11:45 · 524 A
• From Opportunity Identification to Submission: The Hidden Translation Work of Research Administrators 11:00–11:45 · 524 BC
• Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) Update 11:00–11:45 · 520
• The Organisational Chart Is the Easy Part: Leading Research Support in Transition 11:00–11:45 · 519
• Working together to measure research impact: Punching above our weight in New Brunswick 13:15–14:00 · 522
• Beyond the AI Use Case: Moving from Staff Experimentation to Responsible Adoption in Research Administration 13:15–14:00 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Learning Across Borders: Transformative Study Tours for the RMA Community 13:15–14:00 · 524 A
• The Human Side of Organizational Change: Curiosity, connection, and collaboration in practice 13:15–14:00 · 521
• The Value of Belonging: Measuring the Benefits and Return on Investment of CARA Membership 13:15–14:00 · 525
• Mitacs Plus: Transforming the Research Administration Experience 13:15–14:00 · 518 BC
• The European Landscape of Research Management: Achievements, Gaps and Lessons Learnt 13:15–14:00 · 524 BC
• From Policy to Practice: Implementing the Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy and Research Data Deposit Requirement 13:15–14:00 · 520
• Research Management in the English-Speaking Caribbean: Practitioner Profiles, Roles, and Professionalisation 13:15–14:00 · 519
• Building Research Management Ecosystems in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries for Equitable Partnerships 14:15–15:00 · 524 BC
• SSHRC Update 14:15–15:00 · 520
• Canadian participation in Horizon Europe: Balance and Projections 14:15–15:00 · 518 BC
• Built for Grants, Not Partners: A Reform Agenda for University Research Administration in Community-Based Participatory Research 14:15–15:00 · 519
• The Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS): Scaling Research Impact Through Strategic Capacity Building 14:15–15:00 · 522
• More than Speed Dating: Using Online Collaborative Research Workshops to Deepen Strategic Global Partnerships 14:15–15:00 · 525
• Leadership in action - The CORE approach to Empowering Research Managers 14:15–15:00 · 521
• Strategic Synergy between Sponsored Programs Administration and Undergraduate Research Programs 15:15–16:00 · 522
• From Centralized Research to Distributed Networks: Building Clinical Research Capacity Beyond the Academic Health Sciences Centre 15:15–16:00 · 524 BC
• Who Builds the Consortium? Reimagining the Research Manager’s Role in Partnership Building 15:15–16:00 · 519
• From Hire to Discovery: Building Research Laboratories for New Faculty 15:15–16:00 · 521
• One portal. Every grant. Powering potential: An update on the Tri-agency grants management solution 15:15–16:00 · 518 BC
• Funding Is Temporary. Capability Doesn’t Have to Be: Rethinking the research workforce model in an uncertain funding environment 15:15–16:00 · 520
• Connecting Research to the World: How Strategic Communication Strengthens the Applied Research Ecosystem 15:15–16:00 · 525
• Building Capacity for Social Innovation: The Strategic Role of Research Administrators in Advancing Societal Impact 16:15–17:00 · 519
• The Possibilities of Partnerships: Building Research Development Capacity through Collaboration 16:15–17:00 · 522
• Funding Global Partnerships: Overcoming Barriers in International Research Management 16:15–17:00 · 525
• Finding the Time to Find the Time: Workload, Effective Generative AI Adoption, and the Administrator as Researcher, 16:15–17:00 · 521
• From Administrators to Strategic Partners: Leading Change in Research Management 16:15–17:00 · 524 BC
• SSHRC-NSERC Finance Update 16:15–17:00 · 520
• From Eligibility to Engagement: Building Institutional Capacity and a Community of Practice for Horizon Europe 16:15–17:00 · 518 BC

Day 5 — Friday 30 April 2027

• Friday Keynote 08:00–08:45 · 517 ABC Plenary
• Beyond Research Administration: Building the Data-Enabled RMA Team 09:00–09:45 · 522
• Research Conduct and Misconduct Across Borders 09:00–09:45 · 524 BC
• Building Resilience through Collaboration: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Research Support 09:00–09:45 · 525
• Navigating the transition to the tri-agency CV Part 1 09:00–09:45 · 520
• One Story, Many Audiences: Strategic Communication for Research Success 09:00–09:45 · 524 A
• Board Games: A Research Manager's Playbook for Society & Association Governance 09:00–09:45 · 519
• Creating the Conditions for Success: A Faculty's Journey Toward Greater Research Engagement 09:00–09:45 · 518 BC
• Supporting Ethical Indigenous Partnerships in the Pre-Award Stage 09:00–09:45 · 521
• From Grant Support to Research Development: A 10-Year Evolution of an Institutional Research Development Ecosystem 10:00–10:45 · 521
• Horizon Europe: Managing cultural and systemic changes for Researchers and Research Administrators within Canadian, New Zealand and European academic institutions 10:00–10:45 · 524 A
• Navigating the transition to the tri-agency CV Part 2 10:00–10:45 · 520
• Diagrammatic elicitation of the research ecosystem: The role of Research Development Professionals on institutional culture 10:00–10:45 · 518 BC
• Beyond Recruitment: Embedding EDI Across the Research Lifecycle 10:00–10:45 · 519
• From Gap to Growth: How Alliance4Life Measurably Transformed Research Governance Across Eleven Widening Countries 10:00–10:45 · 522
• Building interdisciplinary domain expertise through collaborative research development support 10:00–10:45 · 525
• From NASA Astronaut Health to Brain Health: What a Pilot's Perspective Can Teach Us About Building Research Ecosystems 10:00–10:45 · 524 BC

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Sponsors (8)

Springer Nature · Bouvier Grant Group · Worktribe · Overton · Infonetica · InfoReady · Canada Foundation for Innovation · Elsevier

Association Partners (3)

L'Association des administratrices et administrateurs de recherche universitaire du Québec (ADARUQ) · National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) · National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP)

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