Changing Research Culture

In anticipation of REF2029’s heightened emphasis on People, Culture and Environment, ‘research culture’ is increasingly coming into scope as a focus of attention for UK institutions. But critical and reflective work is needed to avoid the term becoming, like ‘excellence’ itself, a floating signifier that obscures the genuine conditions, processes and limitations of academic practice.

This one-day workshop will address this task with a particular focus on practices around openness and transparency. With reference to UKRIO’s component principles of research integrity, we will examine the degree to which open practices present a necessary condition of a culture of research integrity and inclusion and explore the extent to which embedding and facilitating open practices offers a significant mechanism of culture change.

This event is FREE and open to researchers and research-related colleagues from both within and outside the University of Sheffield.

Keynotes: 

• Dr Tanita Casci, Director, Research Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford
• Professor Stephen Curry, College Consul and Professor of Natural Science, Imperial College London, and Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
  

The full programme for the event can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tCexuUiaGawAxTqNHi02amcfKO-XzPJuC10EIwbhOik/edit?usp=sharing

Refreshments and lunch, including vegetarian and vegan options, will be provided. If you have any additional dietary requirements, please email rdm@sheffield.ac.uk with details, including 'Changing Research Culture event - dietary requirements' in the subject line.