Dr Chandrika Nair

Interested in collaborating beyond your institution to improve #ResearchCulture?

Strategy Meeting of the Research Culture Enablers Network (RCEN):
🗓️ 13 February, 2–3 PM (via Teams)

Learn from successful collaboration models
Identify opportunities for impact

warwick.ac.uk/research/res...

Join us at the 1st Research Culture Enablers Network Meeting of 2025!

A collaborative space all those trying to improve #researchculture

7 Jan 2025; 2-3 pm (GMT) via Teams

Join RCEN for access to our group and meetings:
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Agenda:
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Happy New Year! Here’s to everyone working to improve #ResearchCulture and keep moving the dial on key challenges in 2025.

Have you read: Have you read: Kirstie Haywood et al. Enhancing Research Culture at Warwick Medical School (WMS): A community-driven, values-based vision towards enhancing WMS’s research culture. doi.org/10.31273/eir... #exchangesjournal

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

Common words and phrases from the survey responses to the question 'What do you enjoy about your Research Culture role?'

So #researchculture professionals tend to be convenors - bringing together people and ideas and achieving alignment. What do we like best about our roles? From the survey results, common phrases are 'making a difference', 'improve research', 'help shape' culture.

Word cloud summarising research culture professional roles

What do #researchculture professionals do? We surveyed our Research Culture Enablers Network membership: 'Amplifying #research community voices and addressing their priorities, alongside leading or
managing institutional change initiatives.'
Report: warwick.ac.uk/research/res...

What can Researcher Development tell us about #ResearchCulture?

Dr Kate Jones at the latest Research Culture Enablers Network meeting: It's more than training, it's building communities, fostering behaviour change, influencing policy.

Watch: warwick.ac.uk/RCEN

Researchers working on narrative style CVs or having recently assessed or written one: take a look at PEP-CV, where you can engage in peer mentoring exchanges to discuss how to best present a diverse range of experiences, achievements, and career paths. pep-cv.mariecuriealumni.eu

#researchculture

Disadvantaged students suffer as new subject ‘cold spots’ develop Shrinking humanities departments reducing options for those who wish to study close to home, finds British Academy

Arts and humanities provision is at risk of “death by a thousand cuts”, with disadvantaged young people in particular becoming increasingly cut off from studying certain subjects, warns @britishacademy.bsky.social
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If you’re in the vicinity of Warwick University over the next 10 days, head over to the Faculty of Arts to have a look at Monstrous Reputation. Co-created with young men in prison. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, Medieval bestiaries and ideas drawn from narrative criminology. #prisonarts

3/ SBIDER Presents

▶️ Podcast episode is part of the "SBIDER presents" series

▶️ We interview University of Warwick SBIDER group researchers about their work in the biological and medical sciences.

Series 🔗: sbiderpresents.podbean.com

Warwick pledges £700 million for campus’ new science precinct Unprecedented investment is one of the largest UK university building projects in recent years

Warwick pledges £700 million for campus’ new science precinct
Unprecedented investment is one of the largest UK university building projects in recent years

#AcademicSky #highered

Delighted to share Warwick Institute of Engagement’s Annual Report for 2023-24. This report represents a lot of hard work from staff, students and their collaborators across the board at the University of Warwick and shows why we do what we do.

warwick.ac.uk/wie/aboutwie...

What can Researcher Development tell us about #ResearchCulture?

Dr Kate Jones at the latest Research Culture Enablers Network meeting: It's more than training, it's building communities, fostering behaviour change, influencing policy.

Watch: warwick.ac.uk/RCEN

Given our new followers (hello!) a reminder about Exchanges:

Open access, early career researcher journal with an interdisciplinary interest in potential publications. Regular issues twice annually, plus special themed issues periodically too.

exchanges.warwick.ac.uk

#publishing #openaccess