Communications
Publications Awareness/Training Sessions
If you are a researcher, HDR student or are involved in research administration then you need to be aware of the new system being rolled out to replace the OPUS publications recording system, IRIS.
During November the IRIS project team held eight 'drop-in' sessions to introduce staff and HDR students to this new system, some of its capabilities, and to answer questions.
2006 Publications Collection
Audit and data entry training sessions were held in February and March ahead of the formal publications collection and audit for 2006 publications.
Communications Plan
The IRIS Steering Group have approved the communications plan for the project. The audience, channels of communication and frequency are summarised in the following table.
| Mechanism | Audience | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| HDRO co-ordination meeting | HDRO Manager | Weekly |
| One page Steering Group Update | Steering Group |
Monthly |
| Attendance at ResNet | ResNet | Monthly |
| Steering Group Meeting | Project Champion and Project Sponsors | Monthly |
| All-staff emails | All staff | Major milestones |
| Testing involvement | By invitation (e.g. willing researchers and ResNet members) | During testing |
| Configuration involvement | By invitation (e.g. willing researchers and ResNet members) | During walkthroughs |
| Focus groups | HDR students | For Portia configuration |
| Selected/targeted HDR students | For Portia | |
| One-to-one meetings | Various stakeholders | As required |
| Verbal updates at meetings/committees | Vice –Chancellor and Executive | As required |