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 Ideasover 1 year ago
Extend journal deadlines for those with caring responsibilities
Journals keep researcher profiles for people who submit and who review articles. This should include a new field to flag those who work part-time and / or have caring responsibilities. Deadlines should be extended for those that meet these criteria. Further, journals should measure their time-to-publication statistics over standard working days, not including weekends or major holidays. Deadlines should be measured in working days, not calendar days. At present, it is assumed that we can work at all hours to meet their deadlines, for example a 10 day deadline reduces to 6 days when weekends are removed and to 3 days if you were to work at 50% FTE. Finally, auto reminder bots should be turned off on non-working days.
over 2 years 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).
over 2 years ago
Introduce an efficiency score (people/ output)
How many people have you got in your laboratory ? How many papers and outputs?
over 2 years ago
Focus on usable outputs rather than papers
Place more focus on the usability of research outputs, like methods, tools and opensource data, when awarding funding and celebrating success. Place a greater emphasis on reproducibility, teamwork and collaboration rather than 'individual prestige'.
over 1 year ago
Outline expected behaviours at induction
Schools and Faculties should include a code of conduct in the induction to make it clear what behaviour is expected, and how to report unacceptable behaviour.
