Research Culture

The IAS is dedicated to enhancing the research culture within the postdoctoral research community at Warwick. Since 2022, we have been awarded multiple projects aimed at improving the training provisions and overall research culture for Warwick Postdocs.

Our latest Enchancing Research Culture projects for 2026

Festival of Postdoctoral Research- Led by Dr Hannah Straw
Accolde Plus Grant Writing Training- Led by Dr Katie Reynolds
Creating Trauma-Oriented Coping Strategies for Researchers Experiencing Vicarious Trauma Arising from Conducting Emotionally Challenging Research Project- Led by Dr Yanyan Li and Shaoyu Yang

Examples of Previous Enchancing Research Culture projects

inVISIBLE Conference

inVISIBLE is an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion project targeted at celebrating the work and achievements of ethnic minorities so as to promote their visibility in research communities and the wider public. The project is managed by Maria Kariuki of the Warwick Black Chemistry Society and kindly sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the UKRI via Warwick Enhancing Research Culture Fund and the Institute of Advanced Study.

Find out more about the inVISIBLE Conference here.

Creating Sustainable High Quality Postdoctoral Training

This project evaluated the content and delivery of our Accolade postdoctoral training program while exploring models for implementing this IAS training across the entire Warwick postdoctoral community. The work helped address issues identified in our previous Research Culture project, Enhancing the Postdoc Research Culture A User-Centred Design Approach.

Find out more about this project here.

Power of PostDocs

The IAS is home to an incredible community of postdocs from across Warwick University. Postdocs have been said to form the ‘heart’ of a department - they push the university forward, training its people and running with ideas. It takes a special group of people with the power to do this.

‘The Power of Postdocs’ is a short video series. Watch the videos here