ELEVATE YOUR RESEARCH MANAGEMENT CAREER WITH ARMS
The Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) is the leading professional body for Research Management Professionals across Australasia (including Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Singapore). Whether you're just starting out or well-established in your career, ARMS offers the tools, training, and connections to help you thrive.
Why Join ARMS?
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER - Gain access to exclusive accreditation programs: Foundation, Established, and Advanced, at discounted rates.
LEARN AND GROW - Enjoy targeted professional development including PD Sessions @ Zoom, plus a wealth of online resources from Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Networks.
CONNECT AND COLLABORATE - Build meaningful relationships with peers locally and globally through networking events, SIGs, and Chapters.
BE RECOGNISED - Apply for awards, scholarships, and participate in the annual ARMS Conference at reduced rates.
ACCESS PREMIUM RESOURCES - Tap into the Open Research Toolkit, the Research Integrity Guide, and the Skills Network via our member portal.
STAY INFORMED - Receive regular updates through our e-newsletters—Up In ARMS and Wrap-Up.
GLOBAL BENEFITS - Enjoy reciprocal perks through the INORMS Sister Association Reciprocal Benefit Strategy (ISARBS).
ARMS is more than a membership, it’s your gateway to excellence in research management. Learn how our members are making a difference in their institutions and across the research enterprise.
Join ARMS today and take your career to the next level!!
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Our Members
Faith Welch
Faith has over eight years’ experience working in research impact-related roles in the UK and New Zealand. She has worked in business engagement at one of the seven UK Research Councils, as a Knowledge Exchange Associate at the University of Bristol and is currently the first Research Impact Manager at the University of Auckland. Faith is also one of the founding convenors of the ARMS Research Impact Special Interest Group. Faith has a passion for growing impact literacy and mobilising a positive impact culture within Australasia.
What words would you use to best describe research management? Adding-value, enabling, enhancing, empowering. Research managers are the icing on top of a research-flavoured cupcake – we just make everything that little bit better!
What do you find most rewarding and most challenging about working in research management? Most rewarding – seeing our researchers make a difference in the real world – however small a part I had to play, I helped make that happen. Most challenging – getting researchers to stick to deadlines!
Funniest ARMS conference experience? Perhaps not the funniest, but I did appreciate all my lovely ARMS colleagues making me feel like I was part of the conference for ARMS Adelaide 2019 when I couldn’t attend last minute due to pregnancy complications. Along with the excellent twitter commentary, I received a heap of selfies from the University of Auckland and Emerald Global table at midnight which has given me significant material that I can’t wait to dig out for future conferences!
Dr David Huang
Dr David Junsong Huang is the Associate Dean/ Research Administration and Support at the National Institute of Education (NIE) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) of NIE.
David has 15 years’ experience in research management. He currently serves as an ARMS Training Fellow as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Research Administration (JRA). As a researcher, David conducts research on learning and instruction, innovation and research management.
David is a recipient of the ARMS-NCURA Global Fellowship in 2016, the Australian Government’s Endeavour Fellowship in 2017 and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) Fellowship in 2018.
What words would you use to best describe research management? Research management is about boundary spanning. Whether doing pre-award or post-award jobs, researcher managers are building networks and influences to facilitate boundary-crossing, for example between the administrative and research communities, to enable rigorous and impactful research.
What do you find most rewarding and most challenging about working in research management? The challenge is to optimise innovation and compliance in research management and the rewarding moment is seeing research managers’ professional growth.
Funniest ARMS conference experience? I look forward to every ARMS conference and the funniest, or perhaps the most memorable moment is the dance time after the conference dinner.
