At Warwick, we are building inclusive research communities and establishing ways to ensure the voices and opinions of researchers and research enablers are heard and influence decision making.

We’ve established a Research Culture Forum which reports into our University Research Committee, giving it visibility at the highest level. This group brings together researchers at all levels, including early career researchers, research students and technical staff, with Professional Services staff from HR, Social Inclusion and Research Support. This ensures voices from all stakeholders are heard and discussed, to share best practice and influence developments in this area. Topics covered in the Research Culture Forum include inclusive research communities, researcher wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion, research career development and training, open research and research integrity.

Output: Meet the Research Culture Forum members.

Next steps: The Research Culture Forum is keen to receive input from across the Warwick research community, including research students, and would like to hear feedback about our research culture. Email

A culmination of ongoing student-staff engagement by committee, this event facilitated a rich conversation on the meaning of decolonisation. Participants discussed how current uses of the term often forget the material issues and actual histories of anti-colonial struggle in favour of a focus on epistemologies, and considered the kinds of changes a more materialist and historically informed account of the term would generate.

Next steps: The department plans to form a working group to produce a document that outlines direction of travel. In addition to this, Michael Meeuwis, the Chair, Equality and Inclusion Forum for the Faculty of Arts, is organising faculty-wide Staff/Student Decolonise Group and an Affirmative Writing Group.