ReMO Webinar: Describing the Values and Behaviours of a Healthy Research Culture

Through a project exploring the landscape of initiatives relating to research culture commissioned by UK Research and Innovation, Vitae have developed a Research Culture Framework, in collaboration with Shift Insight and the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN).
The Research Culture Framework is a tool for employers, funders, and policymakers to support strategic planning on research culture, and describes 13 elements of research culture across four themes:
How research is managed and undertaken
How research ensures value
How people are supported
How individuals engage with others
This webinar will cover how the framework was developed reflecting sector perspectives from a wide range of role holders across a variety of institution and organisation types, as well as from individuals identifying as LGBTQ+, disabled, Black and minority ethnic, and women. It will present how each element of research culture is described in terms of values and behaviours, and how, collectively, these provide a way to understand the breadth of what is encompassed by research culture.
There will be opportunity during the webinar for participants to explore which elements of research culture have most impact on the wellbeing and mental health of researchers.
Link to the Research Culture Framework: www.vitae.ac.uk/impact-and-ev...
Dr Yolana Pringle is Head of Policy and Advocacy at Vitae. She undertakes research and engagement projects on research development and research culture, including co-leading (with Technopolis) the REF 2029 People, Culture and Environment (PCE) indicators project to co-develop indicators on research culture with the sector. Other recent projects include the UKRI State of the Nation on Research Culture Initiatives in the UK and the Horizon Europe-funded Sustainable Careers for Researcher Empowerment (SECURE) project. Yolana is an experienced research leader with deep experience of research culture in the sector. Prior to joining Vitae, Yolana was Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Roehampton. This followed postdoctoral positions at the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge. Her research focused on psychiatry and mental health.
Dr Janet Metcalfe, OBE, is Principal of Vitae, an international programme with a mission to lead world-class career and professional development for researchers. Janet has gained worldwide respect for her knowledge and achievements in doctoral education and researcher careers and has direct experience of designing, leading and delivering on a wide range of projects in academia and the private sector relating to researchers and researcher careers. This included ‘Exploring wellbeing and mental health and associate support services for postgraduate researchers’ to identify good practice examples of institutional policies, support services and practice in encouraging the wellbeing and good mental health of doctoral researchers. Janet is responsible for developing the Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey (CEDARS), a large-scale biennial survey of researchers’ experiences at all career stages. She has recently undertaken two surveys of the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health and research activities of researchers and research groups. Janet is the Chair of ReMO Working Group 1: System level - the ERA working environment.