National Centre for Research Culture
About the Centre
The National Centre for Research Culture (NCRC) aims to facilitate improvement in 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.
If you have any ideas on how we can work together, or for any queries, please do get in touch.
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.
Call for Abstracts Open
IRCC25 will take place on Wednesday 17th September 2025.
The call for abstracts (deadline 11 April 2025) and more information can be found here.
IRCC Highlights
You can view some of our conference recordings, presentations, programmes and abstracts from our previous conferences here.
The Research Culture Enablers Network (RCEN) has been created as a solutions-focused group designed to exchange, debate, and challenge ideas surrounding research culture, with over 250 members.
We facilitate a regular series of online research culture events, free for everyone to engage with. Find out more about how to get involved.
We promote the sharing of best practice in research culture through Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal.Link opens in a new window We also work with the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR) on evaluation of research culture initiatives.
The Warwick 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.
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