1. SWITCH: facilitating the creation of connected Research Ecosystems Kate Nolan Massey University

2. SWITCH enables researchers to visually explore research ecosystems, to map, match and build capabilities for addressing “wicked issues”

3. Food@Massey 19 discipline areas A continuum of expertise from farm to plate including everything in between.

4. What does a mapped and connected research ecosystem offer us? A birds eye view of research expertise across the university Creation of opportunities for people to ‘connect’ and/or ‘map’ research capability Mapping of research expertise alongside wicked issues and projects including the creation of connected working groups Scope to build discipline complimentarity and cross disciplinary collaborative research teams Efficient response to stakeholder, end-user and industry partner requests for research, development and enterprise support

5. SWITCH Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Enterprise Chris Bennewith http://creative.massey.ac.nz http://twitter.com/cocamassey C.Bennewith@massey.ac.nz

7. How do we facilitate and support enduring collaborations? How do we support research conversations across ontologies? How do we evolve our research cultures in order to benefit from the opportunities presented by connected research ecosystems? After connecting and mapping – what do we need to consider?