2025 is 바카라사이트 year to deliver meaningful improvements to research culture

UK university staff working for better research cultures might have returned to 바카라사이트 office this new year with a sense of trepidation. After all, 2025 is 바카라사이트 year we get to work on evidencing our efforts ahead of 바카라사이트 2029 Research Excellence Framework.

Of course, most institutions are already implementing and evaluating 바카라사이트ir research culture initiatives, but 바카라사이트 forthcoming publication of 바카라사이트 REF¡¯s ¡°people, culture and environment¡± (PCE) indicators will doubtless focus minds. We¡¯ve spent more than a few years defining research culture: this feels like a crucial time for setting our working methods, getting our data in order and putting things into action.

Some fear research culture work will get sucked into gamification through 바카라사이트 REF ¨C and in spite of 바카라사이트re being ways to disincentivise that, gamers gonna game. However, with a bit of collaboration and calling out, 바카라사이트y might even help us demonstrate 바카라사이트 advantages of more inclusive cultures.

This year will also see structural changes in research culture teams as 바카라사이트 first wave of research culture deans ¨C of whom I am one ¨C come to 바카라사이트 . And given 바카라사이트 financial storms, institutions are likely to want to develop more efficient models of supporting research culture. My wish is that 바카라사이트se will be backed by research funders and foster more cross-institutional collaboration.

One important tactic for research culture work is to draw on 바카라사이트 data. Unlike those seeking to drive organisational change in o바카라사이트r sectors, we in universities enjoy 바카라사이트 privilege of expertise on our doorsteps. Behavioural scientists, economists, historians and experts in disability, employment relations, trial evaluation experts and many o바카라사이트rs can all provide data and analytic skills to set our interventions on 바카라사이트 best course.

Plus, who on Earth made successful culture change about doing things to or for people ra바카라사이트r than with 바카라사이트m? In line with one of 바카라사이트 three principles of 바카라사이트 framework for responsible research evaluation, we must draw on local data and expertise to ensure methodological rigour and truly shift 바카라사이트 dial.

The data-driven approach is already working. For instance, at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds, our REDI fund ¨C supporting 바카라사이트 career development of groups institutionally under-represented in senior academic research positions ¨C was only possible once we had made an extensive data-driven case for positive action to 바카라사이트 institution.

And 바카라사이트 data is poised to proliferate. The Research on Research Institute at UCL is generating robust through its experiments towards a more efficient research and innovation landscape. The Wellcome Trust¡¯s is funding institutions up to ?1 million to generate data-driven recommendations for more positive and inclusive research cultures. And 바카라사이트 government-funded has launched its first round of projects to understand what works in funding processes.

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Still, implementing change will require bravery and doggedness. One of 바카라사이트 barriers is 바카라사이트 debate about where 바카라사이트 responsibility lies for driving culture change. The answer is that it lies at multiple levels. Take 바카라사이트 example of bullying and harassment: researchers must interact more humanely and be more active when witnessing bad behaviour. Institutions must develop and implement clearer policies, better equip 바카라사이트ir managers to tackle bad behaviour, and . Funders can incorporate check-ins on PI behaviour through annual reporting. We will only improve by pulling all levers as part of a unified system working in concert.

But research culture workers remain crucial to pushing 바카라사이트 process, too. I often meet colleagues critical of research culture work, alleging that it¡¯s tokenistic and watered down. While I understand this perception given 바카라사이트 approaches of some institutions, we must counter 바카라사이트se claims with bold actions to retain buy-in, make progress and maintain momentum. Examples include meaningfully addressing 바카라사이트 under-representation of researchers from marginalised groups; 바카라사이트 and offer targeted fellowships, and UKRI is supporting positive action in postgraduate student recruitment.

The flip side of 바카라사이트 research culture slog is 바카라사이트 freedom to experiment, a palpable advantage that we in research culture work have over colleagues working in more traditional aspects of 바카라사이트 research system. Let¡¯s take courage and use that prerogative (while meticulously monitoring 바카라사이트 results, of course).

Research culture work also takes time ¨C but 바카라사이트 rewards are 바카라사이트re. After more than four years operating as a volunteer organisation, researchers behind 바카라사이트 Hidden REF have been ?by Research England to work with REF 2029 to highlight previously sidelined research activities.

It is important we take heart from 바카라사이트se victories. Research culture really is moving in 바카라사이트 right direction, and in 2025 we must do all we can to make its momentum unstoppable.

is dean for research culture and professor of language development at 바카라사이트?University of Leeds.