RCEN Past Recordings

Recordings

The Researcher Development Concordat - Dr Christopher Barenberg, Nottingham Trent University

Promoting Psychological Safety in Research - Dr Katey Cooper, Arizona State University

Jan 2026 Updates - Upcoming priorities, insights into what Research Culture professionals do.

Padlet:

RCEN Working Groups Launch

GPEx survey:

Designing a Good Practice Exchange for research culture in the UK

RCEN 2025 survey:

https://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTOVRetpT3mt4toLink opens in a new window

Join Precarity Working Group (led by Ash Collins)

Linkedin Article: Be Part of What’s Next for the Research Culture Enablers Network: Join Our New Working Groups

Take the models of research culture support survey

Contact List

Warwick

Rika Nair

Parity of esteem for enablers
What works to tackle bullying and harassment
Fixed term contracts

Carole Harris

Good research practices
Collaboration
Job satisfaction and wellbeing of researchers and research enablers

Adele Kenny

Wellbeing
Career and talent development
Collegiality, citizenship and collaboration
Research process (PPIE, Integrity and Open Research)

Kings College London

Josh Mead

Widening participation
Better valuing researchers time
Career diversity and mobility

Hanna Groothuizen
johanna.groothuizen@kcl.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Wellbeing and work-life balance
EDI
Bullying and harassment
Job security

Imperial College London

Isabella von Holstein

Research manager upskilling, recognition, progression
Creating psychological safety in academia (and developing evidence-based practice for this)

Elisa Clemente
e.clemente@imperial.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

EDI and widening participation
Tackling bullying and harassment
Wellbeing and mental health

Wellcome Sanger University College Dublin Hull Bristol

Yasmine Rhoseyn

Improving research culture through working across borders/ collaborative working
Professional development and career stability and growth
Recognising diversity across research contributions
Open and transparent research and decision making
Strong communications planning

Open University

Zoe Ayres

Sustainability of careers/progression
Support for disabled researchers and staff
Embedding equitable practices sector-wide
Wellbeing/ work-life balance
Recognition for positive work (and consequences for poor behaviour)

Durham

Andrew Moss

Early Career Researchers – Career Development and Precarity
Technicians – Visibility, Recognition and Reward
Open Scholarship
Creating an atmosphere where colleagues feel ambitious about their work and are able to fulfil their potential

Brunel Manchester Met

Kate Jones

Making research culture agenda work for all institutions
Our institutional statement/outlook (new research strategy)
Wellbeing and MH / workloads
Equity of access
Mentoring
Narrative CVs

Medical Research Council LSE Manchester

Laura Breen

Building diverse, inclusive and supportive teams
Developing inclusive research management processes
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Participating in/co-developing networks across organisations (locally and nationally) to promote honest shared learning (successes and failures alike)

Oxford

Michelle Wilson

Conducting research to the highest standards of rigour
Recognising different skills and roles that contribute to research
Supporting career aspirations of colleagues

Lindsey Spriggs
lindsey.spriggs@socsci.ox.ac.uk

Normalisation, role modelling and measurement of researcher’s investment in their wider professional development
Optimising researcher inductions
Promoting and embedding mentoring
Enabling the environment, skillset and mindset for researchers to undertake interdisciplinary research
Advocating to reduce precarity and mitigating against its impacts

Research Adjacent

Sarah McLusky

For research to be seen as something that is done by diverse teams, not just 'researchers'
More focus on excellence in processes rather than outputs
More genuine collaboration and engagement, with recognition for contributors

Birmingham

Natasha (Tish) Kriznik

Developing an institutional ‘memory’ of research culture initiatives
Ensuring appropriate recognition for work on and contributions to positive research culture
Hearing the voices of non-STEM researchers
Encouraging critical discussion on research culture

Strathclyde Liverpool GW4 St Andrews Kingston Nottingham CitiStrata Manchester Dundee Northumbria Coventry

Liese Perrin

Incentives for change
EDI
Interdisciplinarity
Measuring research culture
Collegiality

Fiona Secondino

Leading by example
Research leadership behaviours
EDI best practice

Cumbria

Naomi Pierce

- Improving research culture with little investment/resource
- Measuring research culture
- Developing impact literacy and capability in formative research environments

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RCEN Report

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RCEN Report
2023-2024

At the heart of the Research Culture Enablers Network is a commitment to elevate the conversation on research culture and to co-create practical solutions to shared challenges.

RCEN was launched in December 2023 to address disparities and foster collaboration among colleagues dedicated to advancing research culture. Through the exchange of ideas and the questioning of current practices, we aim to identify gaps, generate new insights, and drive impactful change across the sector.

With the first year anniversary of the network approaching, this report draws on insights from our expanding membership, gathered through 244 responses to our registration form—where new members provide an overview of their involvement in research culture and highlight their key priorities—as well as 38 in-depth responses to our ‘Models of Research Culture Support’ survey.