We are expecting a record attendance at the R&D Management Conference 2025, and looking forward to seeing old friends and welcoming newcomers to this vibrant community. If you are a RADMA student do say hello the RADMA trustees.
STOP PRESS – the Industry Panel is now hybrid and can be joined free, online
Supporting research, assisting students
As you may know, RADMA (Research and Development Management Association) has supported the conference since its inception and also provides funding for post-graduate students to help them attend. So we are delighted to see five of the students we have supported presenting at the conference.
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Fatema El-Wakeel has recently been appointed as Head of Global Data and Insights at ARM . She is a Data Strategy Evangelist, Unilever industry practitioner, and a University of Cambridge researcher. She is using her PhD and MBA frameworks to create the right strategies and ecosystems for successful data, analytics and emerging technologies transformations.
Fatema says she is on a mission to share how to successfully strategise and scale data and emerging technologies (AI, Digital Twins and Metaverse) across organisations and has previous experience with Jaguar Landrover, Nissan, Hewlett Packard among others.
Her paper at the Doctoral Colloquium is titled “Integrating complexity and absorptive capacity: a data strategy framework for emerging technologies”.
Bethan Moncur, Doctoral Researcher at IfM, University of Cambridge, will be presenting her paper “Simulation technologies to support process innovation decision-making”.
Bethan is part of the team working on the Agri-Food Robotics and Autonomous Systems (AgriFoRwArdS) project which is a collaboration with Samworth Brothers a British food manufacturer.
Her particular interest is how digital technologies can support decision-making processes. In particular, her research explores how technologies facilitate knowledge integration and decision-making in manufacturing process innovation.
Huayu Xin, is at the University of Edinburgh studying for her PhD, “Towards responsible large language models: cases of co-creating in the life sciences”, which is also supported by RADMA.
At the conference she will be presenting her paper “The mission-driven innovation model of new R&D institutes in China: a comparative analysis”.
Seung-Hyun Lee, of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, will be presenting her paper “Positioning of research actors as a new framework of research evaluation: a demonstration through interdisciplinary and collaboration patterns of Korean public research institutes” at the 2025 R&D Management Conference.
An Yu Chen, is a research associate at the Alliance Manchester Business School, in the department of Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability. Her research investigates the linkages between science and green technologies and will be presenting her paper “Homophily between women inventors and women researchers in the context of green technologies”.
Innovation & Biodiversity – Industry Panel – free, online session
If you are not able to attend the R&D Management Conference 2025 in person then you might like to join our Industry Panel session which is to be a hybrid event with free online access.
The session will be fireside chat with three eminent innovation experts discussing the challenges they are addressing, the decision making behind the scenes and the opportunities that are being created.
- Jacopo Orlando, a sustainability manager at Aboca,
- Virginia Castellucci, Head of Sustainability & Advocacy at 3Bee
- Nicola Rossi, Head of Innovation at Enel Green Power and Thermal Generation
Do you think biodiversity can inspire innovation? Join the discussion and register here
