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Membership
Application Form
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ARCISS is a membership
organisation for research centres in the UK committed to rigorous social
science research. Over 50 research centres, both independent and within
universities, are currently members.
ARCISS supports
the work of its members by
- organising seminars,
workshops and conferences - recent events have covered research ethics, human
resource management in research centres and changes to research
council support for university research
- campaigning and
representing their interests with government agencies and research funders
- in recent years ARCISS made submissions to the Office of Science and
Technology on the sustainability of university research, to the Higher
Education Funding Council on the RAE and its review of research funding and
to the Economic and Social Research Council on its thematic priorities
- developing good
practice in the management of research centres - currently ARCISS is
examining its members’ experience of contract research staff and developing
a new project and identifying emerging practice for staff with fixed
term contracts
- facilitating networking
for the exchange of information, experience and advice through the ARCISS
mailbase and its Directory of member organisations.
ARCISS
office
holders 2009:
Chair: Nigel Meager, Institute for Employment Studies
Deputy Chair: Alan France, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)
Hon Secretary: Deborah Cox, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Hon Treasurer: Nigel Bilsbrough, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)
Enquiries, invoices and payments for ARCISS should be addressed to Dorothy Williams, ARCISS Administrator
phone: 020 7388 7300 email: admin@arciss.ac.uk
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