About the Centre

The National Centre for Research Culture (NCRC) aims to improve research culture across the UK Higher Education sector, and beyond.

Working closely with key partners and HEIs nationwide, it will serve as a long-term hub for knowledge curation, training and innovative research into research culture.

Learn more about why we established the NCRC and the benefits of a positive research culture.

Our aims

• To build a community of practice through collaboration, curation of knowledge and practice to facilitate improvements to research culture.
• To raise the profile of research culture across the sector.
• To develop and implement sector-wide initiatives.
• To work with others to review research culture activities, and provide evaluation and training.

Our Team

Discover who we are, and why we are passionate about research culture change.

International Research Culture Conference (IRCC)

The NCRC hosts an annual international research culture conference, bringing together the research community to inspire transformative ideas and empower communities to work together to improve research culture for everyone. Over the last two years we have welcomed over 800 delegates to hear about research culture initiatives, collaborate, network and discuss solutions.

Save the date

IRCC25 will take place on Wednesday 17th September 2025. Further details and a call for abstracts will be released in early 2025.

IRCC Archives

You can view some of our conference recordings, presentations, programmes and abstracts from our previous conferences here.

The PATHWAY Programme

We're working to tackle the under-representation of black academics in UK Higher Education. The Warwick PATHWAY Programme offers a range of opportunities and initiatives along the entire career pathway, and aims to create a community of aspiring black researchers. We are keen to collaborate with other institutions to understand how initiatives similar to these are being evaluated and how we can create sector wide change.