Presented by Jodie Double at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Session: Emerging new roles for VR professionals: research into and beyond the arts At a time of international financial instability, with positions constantly under threat, analogue collections facing forced closure and space at a premium, this session will hear from VR professionals who are reinventing themselves and evolving roles in changing landscapes, pushing into new disciplines and spaces. Each speaker will discuss the new roles they have taken on, either by accident or design and how their experiences are shaping their view of the VR profession in “the tens”. In many cases this has meant working across disciplines; making their professional presence felt in the classroom and the boardroom; developing new skills but in all cases, broadening their horizons through collaboration. Speakers will discuss supporting courses beyond traditional visual arts, design and art history; collaborating with libraries, IT and faculty in course development and delivery; working with artists and archivists to preserve and expose their work, collections and archives; building repositories; involvement in project funding applications; working in arts research and coordinating non-traditional research outputs. ORGANIZER: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR MODERATOR: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford PRESENTERS: 1: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR 2: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford, UK 3: Jodie Double, University of Leeds, UK 4: Catherine Worrall, University College Falmouth, UK