In 2025-26 we are trialling a new way of working with our consortium member community to support your ORCID implementation efforts at your organisation.  We will be working with 3-5 member organisations on an intense 1:1 collaboration over a period of 6 months to 1 year.

We have a dedicated section in our ORCID UK Community Teams Space (access for member organisations only) with a recording from the launch webinar held in September 2025 and slides.

Engage+ is running as a pilot to find out whether by working with our members in a more intensive and ongoing style of support we can help them focus and achieve their stated aims for improving ORCID implementation, and with our involvement lessons and resources can be shared back to the community.

Please complete an Expression of Interest form, open until 31st October 2025, which will cover explaining your ideas (what you want to achieve) during this intervention, explain that you have some prerequisites in place (resourcing and any permissions needed), and show what benefits and lessons might be shared back with the community.

• Regular monthly meetings for planning
• Interim support by email or extra calls
• Define the project and set realistic aims
• Communication within the institution
• Source materials and resources for different stakeholders
• Technical knowledge where appropriate
• Monitor and give feedback

We will first work together in a planning phase, defining the objectives and time lines and identifying stakeholders. Planning and progress monitoring will then take place through monthly meetings which provide a pause for review and getting further input. Interim support with developing resources or working with stakeholders will be available between meetings. Together we will feed back and evaluate the success and strengths of this style of working, and we will work to share any lessons and resources back to the community – both within the consortium and wider.

• Reviewing and understanding the use of ORCID at your institution (gain better insight, use existing tools, create new tools)
• Evaluating internal workflows using ORCID, and planning to extend or improve them
• Improving uptake of ORCID (work with specific disciplines, parts of your organisation, or link in with an event in the academic cycle)
• Use or implementation in specific scenarios (e.g. new joiners, research data management)
• Focus on specific benefits you would like to realise – for the organisation, for researchers (e.g. reduce duplication, time savings, better visibility)
• We are open to any ideas you may have

Examples

• Using affiliation manager to connect with sections of your audience
• Research data management systems
• The journey of a new joiner
• Using ORCID information to populate other forms/profiles
• Exporting data to HESA
• Running a workshop or communication campaign

• Commitment for minimum 6 months
• Attendance at planning and review (monthly)
• You are responsible for local implementation
• Securing agreement, making connections, local knowledge
• Collate lessons and outcomes and share

This project is being run as a pilot to find out if this approach of intensive ongoing support can (1) deliver benefits for the member organisations and (2) help to generate useful lessons and resources that can be used by the whole community.

Due to limited resources, we will launch the pilot with a small number of projects to confirm that the resource required from the support team and the member organisation is feasible.   We also want to confirm that the overall objectives of this approach can be achieved.

We would encourage you to go ahead with your suggested projects. The Jisc support team will still be available with our usual channels to support you, via the helpdesk, arranged 1:1 meetings, drop-ins and other events. We can provide advice and feedback on plans, pointers to resources or connect you up with peers via our community. However, there will not be the ongoing planning and monthly review in place. We would be delighted to hear about your projects and progress and support you with sharing lessons and resources through our existing methods e.g. webinars, advocacy toolkit, blog posts.

Whilst we are asking for commitment to monthly meetings, securing internal support, and setting realistic aims to make projects achievable, the aim of the pilot is to understand if this approach works well for our members and to learn from it too. We understand that things happen, staff may move on, priorities change, and external events have an impact. There is no consequence if a project does not succeed for any reason. We will work with the member organisation to review whether we can change aims or methods to produce something useful for the member and the community. If this is still impractical, all we ask is that you provide feedback so we can learn from the process and consider what we can take into future support initiatives.

This depends. This first run is a pilot to find out what this style of support can achieve and we will evaluate the resources needed, the outcomes achieved and the feedback from the participating member organisations to decide what comes next after the pilot.