Guide to the RCM paper

This guide maps the sections of the paper Professionalising Community Management Roles in Interdisciplinary Research Projects to practical tasks. Use it to find the part of the paper that supports your situation, then read that section for the full argument and references.

Sharan, M., Karoune, E., Hellon, V., Gould Van Praag, C., Kayumbi, G., Bennett, A., Araujo Alvarez, A., Lee Steele, A., Batchelor, S., Lacey, A., & Whitaker, K. (2024). Professionalising Community Management Roles in Interdisciplinary Research Projects. arXiv:2409.00108. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.00108 (PDF)

The paper is a preprint. Section numbers below follow the arXiv v1 version.

Find the section you need

If you want to…	Read	Section
Define what an RCM is, or explain the role to colleagues	Definition of RCMs	1.1
Assess where a community is and plan next steps	Community Maturation Indicator	2.1, 2.2, Supplementary 1
Embed good research practice in a project	Best practices that improve research quality	2.3
See how RCMs work in real projects	RCM roles in practice	3, Supplementary 2
Write a job description or plan team capacity	Skills and Competency Framework	4, Supplementary 3
Make a case for recognising or funding RCM roles	Steps towards professionalisation	5, 6, 7

Pages in this guide

• Defining the role

• Assessing and planning a community

• Embedding best practices

• Examples from the Turing

• Writing roles and building skills

• Making the case for RCM roles

• Supplementary materials

Cite the paper

If you use these ideas or the frameworks, please cite the paper as shown at the top of this page. See also research outputs.