And so what are you hoping will be different as a result of having this programme?

I think that the programme at the moment is probably more important now than ever, particularly in light of this financial crisis that we're in.

So I think we're seeing universities being restructured and a lot of that has been driven by rounds of voluntary severance and compulsory redundancies.

And it's reshaping research offices in a really unplanned and ad hoc way.

So I think the blueprint in particular that we're developing will help institutions and the sector have an idea of the skills and the roles that are needed, the structures that are optimal to support universities.

And I think particularly the pilot projects that we're going to talk about that will be in Work Package 3, will provide an opportunity for colleagues to really think about ways of addressing some of those contracting research offices and their changes to our roles through exploring things like shared services, the use of AI in quite a safe space, and then think about how we can roll that out across the sector.

And then just, I think, you know, to sort of reiterate what Rika has just said, I think the fact that we're doing this activity at such a national scale and the volume of stakeholder engagement we're going to have through Work Package 1 and 4 amplified by the commission that we've set up, I think will just really raise the visibility and recognition of research professionals and the value that we bring to the research endeavour.

Could you tell us a bit about what that entails?