The IRR Network got off to a flying start with its inaugural event on March 30th 2010. A wonderful mix of nearly 40 delegates – including research students, lecturers, research centre directors, professors, deans and pro-VCs - gathered at the Bedford Row Offices to hear two distinguished professors – Jeroen Huisman, director of Bath University’s International Centre for Higher Education Management, and Susan Robertson, the founding co-ordinator of Bristol University’s Centre for Globalisation, Societies and Education -speak on internationalisation and globalisation in higher education research.