The ARMA Awards aim to celebrate the achievements of research management professionals and teams, showcasing best practice and excellence within the profession.
The Advocacy in Research Management Award recognises an individual or team that has developed and maintained innovative ways for improving the visibility of research management with stakeholders, policymakers and other interested parties.
At the ARMA Awards ceremony earlier this month, Dr Elizabeth Gadd was celebrated for her transformative work on research evaluation and assessment. As chair of the INORMS Research Evaluation Group, Elizabeth guided the development of the SCOPE framework for research evaluation, now used worldwide, and spearheaded the More Than Our Rank initiative, shifting the culture around higher education institution rankings.
She has championed responsible evaluation practices as Vice-Chair of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), supports responsible evaluation through leadership in ARMA’s Research Evaluation SIG, and founded the LIS-Bibliometrics Forum/The Bibliomagician.
On winning the award, Elizabeth commented: “I feel very lucky to be recognised by the vibrant UK research management community for essentially doing what I love: advocating for better, fairer, and more meaningful forms of research assessment that recognise and reward all the wonderful contributions our research communities make. I’m really grateful to Loughborough University for giving me space to do this work as part of my role.”