ARMA Board of Directors
Ian Carter
(Chair)
Director of Research and Enterprise, University of Sussex
email i.carter@sussex.ac.uk
Ian Carter's career has spanned the capital engineering industry, an interdisciplinary research centre, and university administration and management. He is currently the Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Sussex, where he is responsible for the research portfolio, including the University's research strategy and policy development, and oversight of all externally-funded research and knowledge transfer. He played a leading role in the introduction of full economic costing, and has also been involved in the RAE processes.
He sits on the UK Research Councils' Joint Grants Processing Steering Group (under which he chairs the Research Organisation Consultation Group), and was a member of the Research Councils' Dual Support Reform Project Board. He is a member of the BUFDG Costing and Pricing Group, and of that Group's Technical Advisory Sub-Group. He is a member of the HEFCE’s Technical Sounding Board for the Research Excellence Framework, and of the Expert Panel overseeing RCUK's Study on Open Access to Research Outputs. He was a member of the Research Councils' Je-S Implementation Project Board and Research Administration Programme Board, and also of the PPARC CRS Working Group. He is the Chair of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK), and is a leading member of the Brunswick Group. He is a member of the International Committee of the US-based Society of Research Administrators International, and is a current Distinguished Faculty of that society.
Previously, he worked at the University of Liverpool (2005-2008) where he was the Director of Research, and at the University of Glasgow (1992-2004) where he was latterly Director of Research Development. At Glasgow he was responsible for the creation of the Research Office (1992), the implementation of an integrated institutional research management system (1994), involved in the establishment of Research & Enterprise (1997), managed two RAEs (1996 and 2001), developed the institution's research strategy, and initiated the introduction of full economic costing. Whilst at Glasgow he was a leading member of the Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium. Prior to that, he worked at the SERC-funded Engineering Design Research Centre (1990-1993), and for NEI Parsons (1983-1990). His degrees are in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Design & Management Systems. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Chartered Management Institute.
