Getting Started with Research Ops.

Over the last 18 months, Research Ops has grown in popularity. If you’re a User Researcher, Research Leader or Design Leader at the start of your journey with Research Ops, this conference is for you. In conjunction with the Research Ops community, UXInsight will be bringing some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers in this space to share their experiences of Research Ops.

Research Ops is an emergent field. While there have been pockets of ReOps specialists for a long time, it’s only recently grown to being a profession in its own right.

We’re looking for talks which speak to the practical experience of trying something in this area. We’re interested in case studies, deep dives, collaborations and test projects. If you have some worthwhile experiences to share, please submit a talk idea. We’d like to hear from a diverse range of people and backgrounds so if in doubt, please submit.

We’ll be curating our programme using the Eight Pillars. These two recent articles from Emma Boulton tell you more about the Eight Pillars and those broad areas we are interested in:

Getting Started with Research Ops
The Eight Pillars of User Research

Please submit either a general Research Ops talk or consider a deep dive into a topic that falls under one of the eight pillars.

The following four pillars are about how research can be systematised and scaled. The core of ops. We are particularly interested in deep dives into these areas:
- Recruitment and admin
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Governance
- Tools and Infrastructure

The following four pillars are about how research happens and what supports it. The context and capability. We are interested in experiences of how these things affect the implementation of Research Ops:
- Environment
- Scope
- People
- Organisational Context