Research culture: let's reimagine how we work together
We want to hear your solutions to improve research culture. As a funder we need to play our part, and your role is essential. Achieving a successful research culture needs collective responsibility and change at all levels. Your ideas will help us to craft a set of ambitious goals for creating a better culture.
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Thousands of researchers have taken part in the largest ever survey into experiences of research culture. Now we want to hear your solutions to some of the concerns that have been raised. Your ideas will help us craft a set of ambitious goals for creating a better culture.
Check out the ideas that have already been suggested below, comment and vote for the ones you think could make a difference. Or you can add your own idea following this format (you'll need to create an account to vote and add responses).
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Find out more about Wellcome's campaign to reimagine research.
View All Ideas5 months ago
Discourage a culture of overwork
The organisation and people in positions of power must make it clear that working beyond contracted hours is not the expectation. If you work to your contracted hours it does not mean you are not committed.
10 months ago
Funders should automatically add additional £ resource to successful proposals researching traumatic areas to allow for clinical supervision
We recently published a paper on the impact of trauma on researchers which was picked up by THE. We recommend that proactive clinical supervision should be added to research grants where trauma is being researched. Happy to discuss but think this would be a relatively cheap but important policy to support researchers and improve well-being.
9 months ago
Help people keep their stake in projects
Allow people who helped to write grants and are named co-applicants to continue full involvement with the grant even if they change job (people have the benefit of their gruelling labour on grant applications stolen this way all the time).
9 months ago
Change grant application rules to enable ECRs on short-term contract to apply as lead irrespective of when ECRs contract is scheduled to end
Feeling secure to pursue a career in research
about 2 months ago
Researcher-led career transitioning resource
A team of research staff (post-docs) and PhD students at the University of Oxford regularly publish in-depth, searchable career profiles of individuals from Oxford and across the globe who have successfully transitioned into fulfilling roles in industry, policy or the voluntary sector. To date, http://research-careers.org/ has 78 career and employer profiles; all sourced, edited and published by the team with support from University of Oxford's Careers Service. Team members are developing skills in leadership, teamwork and communication, while growing their professional networks in sectors of interest.
