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Working together to make our research culture more inclusive, equitable, open, and supportive. University of Leeds. https://researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/ #researchculture #operesearch #researchintegrity #edi #researcherdevelopment #responsiblemetrics
On 24 March, @ukrio.bsky.social will host a public webinar exploring the role of supervisors in shaping positive research culture – including what effective and supportive supervision looks like and how it can be sustained over time.
🔗 Learn more and register: ukrio.org/the-role-of-...
One for our #GLAM friends:
Co-designing autism-friendly museums: insights from autistic individuals and museum professionals
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Museum
#Neurodiverse
#Autistic
#Autism
Leaving this v. v. short thread with an iconic Glasgow landmark. What a day! So energising to be among culture change makers, and to recognise the collective effort we have for shaping the sector, the way in which government policy supports our work, and the hopes and dreams of our HE colleagues.
Busy busy day Doing. The. Work. but we're closing now with some reflections on the sector-wide challenges and opportunities for Research Culture change. Ben Bleasdale takes the floor first.
(IMO, he's going to have a tough act following Emily and Soo's talk, immediately before).
Basket of tunnocks tea cakes and caramel bars.
When in Scotland!!!
Photograph of a PowerPoint slide with the title "Everyday Cultures of Collaboration".
Soo and Emily are in bonny Glasgow today for the University of Strathclyde Everyday Cultures of Collaboration conference. While we have big Scottish roots in the team, this is our first time north of the border for the Research Culture team!
Each month we collate a playlist for our Research Culture newsletter readers. This month, we're celebrating LGBTQIA+ artists. As it's Friday, why not start the weekend disco now?: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Energising day at the N8 Research Culture and Environment group away day in Durham today. Somehow managed to drag my arthritic body up all the hills, which paid dividends for a lovely meander to the station along the river on the way back. Watch this space for some emerging N8 RCE insights!!
Is this...the most ambitious crossover event in history?
Listen to our very own @emilyennis.bsky.social discuss their experience of disability, research culture, and the Research Culture Uncovered podcast! Also, RCU podcast fans...stay tuned for @elainagmamaril.bsky.social returning the favour soon!
We 👏 love👏 to👏 see👏 it!
As a Research Culture team, we've previously funded projects at Leeds that help support menopausal staff at the institution. But this new employment rights bill will help bring accountability to organisations across the UK!
Elsevier’s decision to close ResearchFish is big for the whole community. RF is hugely time‑consuming, but building new systems won’t be easy either. Still, understanding research’s wider societal benefits matters - maybe it's time to rethink how we do it. A sector‑wide opportunity if we take it 👀
Our own @emilyennis.bsky.social has officially joined the Research Culture Uncovered podcast! Listen in to hear a bit more about what she'll be bringing to the award winning (😏) series.
Applications for this close in just 10 days! Better get your (ice) skates on.
We are pleased to announce that the People and Culture Directorate at Leeds have crowned the chocolate leibniz as the winner of our biscuit world cup!
[Chanting increasingly loudly]
biscuit world cup
Biscuit World Cup
BISCUIT WORLD CUP
BISCUIT WORLD CUP!!!!
On this final full week before Christmas, and just in time for the end of #DisabilityHistoryMonth, why not read my interview with Armineh and Liz on how ableism presents itself in the HE sector, and how we've collectively and individually navigated it as disabled people.
Read more: researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/building-ant...
#DisabilityAwarenessMonth #ResearchCulture #Inclusion #Equity
This Disability Awareness Month we ask:
What if research spaces were truly designed for all?
How do we dismantle systems built for an “ideal” body & mind? @emilyennis.bsky.social explores these questions with @drasoorenian.bsky.social & Liz Dew from the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture project
We are celebrating finally having some certainty!🥳🎉🍾
We need to spend some time digesting all the many many documents that have now been released by the REF team (well done to the person pressing go live on those, and for living through the pressure of not accidentally pressing the button too early!). But safe to say that we will be sticking around!
But wording means a lot, and for many, removing the word "culture" from the assessment will mean removing the measurement of some of the less tangible but equally real aspects of the research environment that contribute to how research is produced, or not produced.
Our thoughts? A bit complicated, a bit mixed, but entirely what we were expecting given the rumour mill from the last few weeks. It's clear there is some attempt to embed research culture as business as usual, and we love 👏 to 👏 see 👏 it 👏
It was also announced that Research Culture and its evidence/indicators will also be compulsory components in determining Research England QR funding allocation, so Research Culture is very much here to stay!
So what does this mean for research culture? Well, further panel discussions highlighted that the SPRE template will include indicators from the People, Culture and Environment pilot, with support on how to evidence these indicators. This means that many research culture metrics continue in SPRE.
Helen Cross, Director of Research and Innovation, Scottish Funding Council, and Vice Chair of the REF2029 Steering Group, also noted that the phrase "research culture" had got in the way of what this element was trying to evaluate. It is hoped that removing the phrase will get us back to its roots.
So why the name change? Does this mean Research Culture has disappeared? Not exactly. Lord Patrick Vallance of Balham made clear that SPRE will continue to measure how research environments are foundational to generating excellent research. He also noted that SPRE also reconfirms commitments to EDI.
Weightings for the REF will now be: 55% for Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding (CKU); 25% for Engagement and Impact (E&I); and 20% for what will now be known as Strategy, People and Research Environment (SPRE).
Happy REF un-pause day to those of you who celebrate! After a wonderful last-minute scheduling change (a last-minute increase to one hour from 30 mins, and a change to proposed timelines -- you might say this was a theme of the announcement), we had the following things confirmed:
Our first publication is here! In collaboration with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, our project is a cross-national, multidisciplinary and qualitative study of work-related suicide in the UK, France and Canada. Read it here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Inclusive research culture starts with solidarity - and that means showing up for everyone.
📅 Nov 17 | Nov 24 | Dec 19
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