This podcast is brought to you from the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference 2011, at the Midland Manchester hotel (05/06 September 2011). In the course of this podcast we cover a summary of day 1 of the conference, including some participant interviews, a keynote speech from Ewart Wooldrige CBE (CEO, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education), interviews with some of the winners of the European Commissions HR Excellence in Research award, Researcher Development Framework (RDF) news, and additional keynotes from the main plenary sessions of day 2. Enjoy!