In autumn 2021, discussions were held on the opportunity to establish a National Research Support forum. This forum will bring together research IT and research support staff from RPOs and RFOs to share knowledge and experiences on supporting the work of researchers with tools, services and infrastructure. It will provide a place to discuss emerging needs and trends and discuss how to address them, learning from each other.

This 'Birds of a Feather' meeting will launch the forum and will be used to finalise the scope, its terms of reference and to identify an initial set of use cases the forum will discuss and work on in its first 6 months.