Research Network at ‘Shaping our Future’ 2025

The MRS Conference was at the Hilton Bankside in Southwark as usual. This year, all the MRS affiliated bodies were moved from the main exhibition space, where lunch and refreshments were served, to the conference entrance area, cloakroom and bar upstairs. This allowed more space for paying stands in the exhibition area. This was not nearly such a good position for attracting new members. Nevertheless, we were able to assemble a reasonable number of serious enquiries from potential members by walking around in the exhibition hall downstairs during the breaks.

This year the cards and the pull up banner on our stand contained a QR code which connected to the Network’s website. These were very popular and generated a much more immediate response to enquiries than in the past, because Gill Wareing was able respond within minutes to any enquiry.

The Network is very grateful to Jane A’Court, Jade On, Adam Phillips and Andrew Smith for manning the stand and distributing leaflets and membership application cards. And to Jane Bain for producing the contact cards, leaflets and banners which made it look interesting and to Gill Wareing for replying immediately, on the day, to enquiries..

Our next event is our Spring Lunch on 29th April. If you know of a potential new member who would like a taster visit to the Research Network, please invite them. And if you are a potential member considering membership, please book and come along and meet us.