Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference

Dr Kay Guccione, REDS Conference Director

The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference is an annual, free, online, international conference focusing on the scholarship (evaluation, research into practice, action research, theoretical perspectives) of Researcher Education and Development in its widest sense. Positioned in complement with other sector conferences focusing on educational practice for developing research and researchers (Vitae, UKCGE, Advance HE, ARMA and many more Research-focused Conferences) the REDS Conference uniquely focuses on research into practice, and promotes the value of scholarship-led practice in our field.

The approach, focus and content of the REDS Conference is quality assured by working annually with a REDS Advisory Group of up to 20 members. For the 2026/28 period (a two-year term), we are recruiting 5 new members, to join the experienced team.

Advisory Group members should have some experience in a formal or informal Researcher Development role (or closely adjacent role) as a member of university professional services staff, academic staff (including PGRs and Research-only Staff), as a similar post holder in a public, private or third sector organisation, or as an independent consultant to the sector. 

Please use this form to express an interest in being a member of the REDS Advisory Group, the remit of which is to guide, plan, promote, deliver, and evaluate the REDS Conferences (next: 20th and 21st January 2027).

Advisory Group members will meet up to four times per year (from April 2026), usually for 1-1.5h each time, to plan the conference theme and call for papers, to review and select speakers for the conference, to coordinate the conference, and to review and learn from the conference feedback.

Between meetings members review abstract submissions, work collaboratively to agree web text, share promotional materials about the conference in their  networks, and review and edit submissions to the REDS blog. In total, this will comprise no more than 10h per year (excluding members’ own submission to, or attendance, at the conference). 

Advisory Group members are not excluded from submitting papers to the REDS conference. Colleagues who (find they) cannot attend the conference, are not excluded from acting as Advisory Group members.

REDS Advisory group members uphold the REDS Conference Code Of Practice.  

The deadline for you to submit your Expression of Interest is 5pm on Monday 23rd March 2026.

In the event of there being more than 5 eligible applications, the panel (current Advisory Group members) will select the new members. Selection will be based on recruiting different types of relevant researcher development, scholarship, and events management expertise, and equally, different types of lived experience and career experience with regard to the HE/Research sector. 

Outcomes will be communicated by Friday 10th April 2026.