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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View All Ideas4 months ago
Stop contributing to casualisation
Greatly increase the amount of funding that works like the University Award in that it researchers to gain permanent positions at academic organisations.
4 months ago
Impose fines on organisations that do not have a ‘reducing long-hours culture’ action plan, and who are working towards achieving that.
Long hours at work culture.
4 months ago
HR style policy supporting students coming to the end of post / training, similar to that provided to employees e.g. details on internal job
Feeling secure to pursue a career in research
5 months ago
Lets create a truly Open Source approach for health research
One of the key challenges to health research today, is that Openness only goes so far. We share code under restrictive licenses (like GPL), we share data that is incomplete, we obscure the meaning in data to advance personal interests. This needs to STOP. We need to have a culture of research that benefits all, and that leverages our shared investments to produce affordable treatments for everyone, not just the rich patients of the developed world. We need to come together to share, participate and advance science the way the Open Source Software (OSS) community has done this for technology. We need to stop using public and philanthropic funding to create prohibitively expensive treatments. We can do this by fully embracing openness, having funding agencies require full and true openness through their funding programs, by encouraging and rewarding participation in Open Source projects for health research.
5 months ago
Job security for researchers
End the casualisation of academic labour in universities, particularly for postdocs.
