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At the University of Leeds, we believe that all members of our research community play a crucial role in developing and promoting a positive and inclusive research culture. Across the globe, the urgent need for a better Research Culture in Higher Education is widely accepted – but how do you make it happen? This weekly podcast focuses on our ideas, approaches and learning as we contribute to the University's attempt to create a Research Culture in which everyone can thrive. Whether you undertake, lead, fund or benefit from research - these are the conversations to listen to if you want to explore what a positive Research Culture is and why it matters.Unless specified in the episode shownotes, Research Culture Uncovered © 2023 by Research Culturosity, University of Leeds is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. Some episod
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- 2 days ago35 min
(Episode 178) Resilience in Research: More than Just Grit!
UK universities are facing unprecedented financial pressures, resulting in restructuring and large scale redundancies across the sector. Within this context, host Ruth Winden and guest Beth Bennati Kennedy explore what research staff can do to cope within an increasingly competitive and challenging research environment.Beth Bennati Kennedy is a US based team coach and professional development expert. She has first hand experience of working with research groups in industry and academia. Her lifework is helping professionals build resilience, so they can adapt, recharge and lead fulfilling lives and careers.Key takeaways:Resilience is not about "bouncing back" but about building a diverse "toolbox" of strategies, tailored to individual needs, to maintain well-being and productivity in demanding environments like researchThe Benatti Resiliency Model®, focuses on: Well-being – Explore strategies to spark your well-being and prevent burnoutSelf-awareness – The value of knowing your purpose and adjusting your mindsetBrand – The importance of your individual professional brand for impact & influenceConnection – How and why to cultivate your connectionsInnovation – How to embed innovation in your career and lifeSimple Ideas for building resilience practice into your life - from fostering connections at work like regular coffee meet ups, spending time with pets, to building in time to enjoy the outdoors in shorter bursts of time, to creating moments of 'awe' as described in in the research of Dacher Keltner.By completing the benchmark, you’ll receive your Resilience Roadmap, which includes practical tactics and resources to help you strengthen each anchor and boost your resilience.Additional information about Beth Kennedy's work, including her publications and Ted Talk: Publications: Book: "Rethink Resilience: 99 Ways to ReCharge Your Career and Life" with two research leaders, Dr Kathik Venkatakrishnan and Dr Songmao (Ben) Zheng.Journal articles:Clinical and Translational Science Journal articles:Staying Engaged in Your Career Without Burning Out: A Call for Action to Build Resilience in Clinical and Translational Science, July 8, 2020, (co-author)How resilient were we in 2021? Results of a LinkedIn Survey including biomedical and pharmaceutical professionals using the Benatti Resiliency Model, August 18, 2022, (co-author)TEDx Talk: TEDxNortheasternU in April 2022.Website is <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bethkennedy.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cr.winden%40leeds.ac.uk%7C1d3535873c284aa4890308df101d987c%7Cbdeaeda8c81d45ce863e5232a535b7cb%7C0%7C0%7C6
- 1 weeks ago22 min
(Episode 177) The Closure of Research Professional News: What's the Future for Research Journalism?
In this episode, host Taryn Bell considers the state of research journalism in 2026. After the recent announcement of the closure of the UK's biggest research journalism outlet, Research Professional News, what does this mean for the research sector as a whole?She talks to Adam Forristal Golberg (Strategic Research Development Manager, University of Nottingham) and Michael Salmon (Editor, Research Agenda) to discuss how we benefit from a trade press, and what comes next.Key takeaways:Research journalism isn't just about reporting on updates: it's about holding the sector accountable, providing detailed analysis, and helping those in the sector put changes into perspective.A robust trade press is key to a healthier research culture: research journalists play a key role in speaking truth to power, and scrutinising topics such as working conditions, bullying, integrity, and AI.All is not lost!: 2 new outlets, Research Agenda and The Finding, have already been announced.Explore more:Clarivate's statement on RPN's closureResearch AgendaIntroductory webinar for The Finding (11 November 2026)If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review Form
- 2 weeks ago35 min
(Episode 176) Creating Connections: The Success of Research Culture Week
In this episode of Research Culture Uncovered, host Emma Spary speaks with Professor Tracey Reynolds, Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich and Director of the Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments, about designing and delivering a week-long Research Culture Week.Tracey explains how the initiative aimed to connect siloed multi-campus communities, make existing activity more visible, and create inclusive spaces for staff, students, technicians and professional services. The week featured around 50 sessions across campuses and online, including Pint of Science events, a technicians’ “Hidden Heroes” exhibition, and an undergraduate student conference. Tracey shares evaluation insights, unexpected benefits, and practical lessons on early planning, communications, curation, and co-design.Listen in to find out:Why hold a Research Culture WeekHow planning and securing buy in are key for successSome of the unexpected winsWhat to do differently next timeAdvice for others considering their own Research Culture WeekFind out more:Connect with Tracey Reynolds and Kate Farrow, the team behind the Research Culture WeekResearch Culture Week websitePint of ScienceREF2029 Strategy, People and Research Environment (SPRE)If you've enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review FormFollow us on Bluesky: @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social (new episodes are announced here), @openresleeds.bsky.social, @researchcultureuol.bsky.socialConnect to us on LinkedIn: @ResearchUncoveredPodcast (new episodes are announced here too).If you would like to contribute to a podcast episode get in touch: researcherdevelopment@leeds.ac.uk
- Oct 14, 202640 min
(Episode 175) Bear With Us: Reflections from this year's International Research Culture Conference
Host Dr Emily Ennis is joined by colleagues from the University of Leeds Researcher Development and Research Culture team, Dr Taryn Bell, Dr Shareefa Fadhel, and Malaika Khalid, for a post-conference reflection on the International Research Culture Conference (IRCC).Following presentations, workshops, networking, and conversations at Warwick, the team share what stood out, what surprised them, and what gives them hope for the future of research culture.In this conversation:A movement growing up. Four years on from the first IRCC, there was a strong sense that research culture conversations are maturing. Discussions are increasingly focused on implementation, evidence, and sustainability, rather than simply defining what research culture is.Hope in uncertain times. Amid challenging funding landscapes and questions about the future of research culture initiatives, delegates repeatedly returned to a sense of optimism. Despite uncertainty, there remains a strong appetite for collaboration and positive change.Microinclusions, not just big interventions. Malaika reflects on the power of small acts of inclusion and recognition. From ensuring everyone has a voice in meetings to acknowledging contributions that often go unseen, meaningful culture change can start with everyday interactions.Recognition as culture change. The team discuss how recognising the labour of colleagues, especially work that is often invisible, can improve belonging, motivation, and collaboration across research communities.Getting the right people in the room. Taryn shares reflections on discussions involving funders, institutional leaders, and practitioners, highlighting the value of bringing different perspectives together to tackle sector-wide challenges.From conversation to action. Conferences provide space to connect and reflect, but attendees also explored how to translate ideas into practical action, ensuring discussions lead to meaningful and lasting change.Finding community. Beyond the formal programme, the conference reinforced the importance of networks, shared learning, and creating spaces where people working in research culture can learn from each other.What's next? Emily, Shareefa, Taryn, and Malaika each share one idea, insight, or action they'll be taking forward from the conference into their own work.Organisations, Networks & Events MentionedInternational Research Culture Conference (IRCC)University of Warwick Research CultureResearch Culture Enablers Network (RCEN)Wellcome TrustIf you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review Form
- Sep 30, 202643 min
(Episode 174) Openness, equity and the changing information ecosystem with Monica Westin
In this episode, Nick talks to Monica Westin, Director of Open Policy Development at Cambridge University Press, about her wide-ranging work across the open knowledge movement - including roles with DORA, NISO, COUNTER Metrics, and Wikimedia UK.We discuss some of the challenges facing research communication, and explore knowledge equity, responsible research assessment, and the future of open access publishing.We talk about the role of Wikimedia and Wikipedia in supporting open knowledge, and why making research outputs more visible and reusable matters.We consider the impact of generative AI on the information ecosystem. From attribution and provenance to Creative Commons licensing and the future of openness, and discuss how researchers, publishers and information professionals can respond to rapid technological change while remaining committed to the principles of open knowledge.Links:Cambridge University Press Open Access policiesKnowledge Equity NetworkKnowledge Equity & Open Scholarship WeekCUP Publishing Futures report (2025)Letter: University research must incentivise quality over quantity (Financial Times: paywall)Open Access : who's converting and who's just adding? (Rob Johnson LinkedIn post)Cambridge Open Engage platformCollateral Damage? Human Creativity and Interaction in the AI Crawling Era (Wikimania Panel)María Teresa Freyre de Andrade (Wkipedia Article)Beyond the Editathon: A New Contribution Model for ExpertsCreative Commons SignalsIf you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review FormAll of our episodes can be accessed via the following playlists:Research Impact with Ged Hall (follow Ged on Bluesky and LinkedIn)Research Impact Heroes with Ged HallOpen Research with Nick Sheppard (follow Nick on Bluesky and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksheppard/" re
- Sep 23, 202642 min
(Episode 173) Beyond Town and Gown: The Civic Exchange at University of Leeds
In this episode, we’re joined by Professor Catherine Noakes to explore the Civic Exchange — an initiative at the University of Leeds that's rethinking how universities and communities work together.We cover:🔸 What the Civic Exchange is (and isn't) — it's not about doing new things, but about connecting what's already happening across research, education, and engagement🔸 Moving from "doing things for communities" to co-creating with them — and why that shift matters🔸 The persistence of "town and gown" and what it takes to break it down🔸 What Cath's career — from engineering to the SAGE Committee during the pandemic — taught her about working in partnership, understanding different motivations, and not assuming you have all the answers🔸 The assumptions we make across disciplines about impact — and how arts, humanities, and sciences have more in common than we think🔸 What a civic university of the future might look like, and why devolution could be both a carrot and a stickA few favourite moments from the conversation:"If you get it right, what you get out the end is so much richer and so much more powerful and impactful." — Cath Noakes"We do need experts, but many of the people we work with are also experts in a different way." — Cath NoakesBig thanks to Cath for a genuinely thoughtful conversation. If you're working in or around universities, community partnerships, or research culture, I think you'll find this one interesting.🔗 Link to listen in the comments belowLinks to some of our topics:Mark Reed’s podcast episode on engagement: Episode 44: What is good practice engagement and impact?Experimenting with different project leadership structures: Project Toolkit Launched – LivingBodiesObjectsLatest on The Civic Exchange here at Leeds: The Civic Exchange | University of Leeds
- Sep 16, 202619 min
(Episode 172) Authorship Uncovered: Who Gets the Credit?
Who deserves to be named as an author?It sounds like a straightforward question, yet authorship remains one of the most contested issues in research. Decisions about who receives credit are often influenced by disciplinary norms, power dynamics, unwritten rules and of course, research culture.In this episode, Dr Emily Goodall explores four authorship dilemmas drawn from workshops with researchers and research professionals. As each scenario unfolds, you're invited to make your own judgement. Should they be an author? More importantly, what do the answers reveal about how we value different contributions to research?Join the ConversationWe've turned the four dilemmas featured in the episode into a listener poll and are interested in your thoughts on authorship. This results will be revealed here, a week after the episode launches. 👉 Click here to submit your vote.The results are in: Perhaps unsurprisingly, our listeners took a notably inclusive approach to authorship, with strong consensus around three of the four scenarios. 100% supported authorship for Maria, the community partner; John, the former PhD student; and Fatima, the technical expert. For Prof Chen, only 25% felt his contribution warranted authorship.The poll remains open, so we'd still love to hear your views.Key Takeaways✅ Authorship is about responsibility as well as recognition: Being named as an author is not only about receiving credit for a piece of research, but also about taking responsibility for the integrity of the work.✅ Authorship reflects our values: Questions of authorship touch on some of the most important issues in research culture, including fairness, recognition, accountability, power and inclusion. Decisions about who is named, and who is not, reflect what and who we value in the creation of knowledge.✅ Transparency supports fairness: Open and ongoing conversations about authorship should include everyone involved in the research, helping to set clear expectations, recognise diverse forms of contribution, and ensure that attribution is fairly acknowledged.ResourcesUKRIO Authorship Integrity Toolkit: Practical guidance on authorship, authorship agreements, contributor discussions, and resolving disputes.CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy): A framework for describing and recognising different contributions to research.ICMJE: Vancouver Guidelines: A widely recognised sets of authorship criteria, particularly in health, medical and biomedical research.COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics): Guidance, resources and discussion documents to support ethical decision-making in publication and authorship.If you've enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review FormFollow us on Bluesky: @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social (new episodes are announced here), @openresleeds.bsky.social, @researchcultureuol.bsky.socialConnect to us on LinkedIn: @ResearchUncoveredPodcast (new episodes are announced here too).If you would like to contribute to a podcast episode get in touch: researcherdevelopment@leeds.ac.ukIf you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider
- Sep 9, 202638 min
(Episode 171) Supporting Careers With Research - Not Just Careers IN Research (with the Careers in Your Ears team)
Is the job market really as bad as the headlines say? How can researchers better understand and communicate their skillsets? And how can they manage the anxiety and uncertainty that comes with the current employment climate?In this episode, host Taryn Bell talks with co-host Ruth Winden, as well as King’s College London's Laura Johnson and Anna Favalessa, hosts of the Careers in Your Ears podcast.Together, they unpack:How misleading data and clickbait can amplify researcher anxiety, while the data might not actually be as bad as we thinkResearchers' misconceptions about the non-academic job market, including the common refrain that "I'm not qualified for anything other than research"The emotional work of career change, and the challenges and benefits of supporting researchers through tricky career transitionsIf you're a researcher developer or careers consultant interested in how you can better support your researchers' career transitions, this is the episode for you!Find out more:Listen to the Careers in Your Ears podcast via Spotify, Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts. We particularly recommend the following episodes:S15 Ep2 | Q&A | Research is my only passion - what else can I do?S14 Ep3 | Q&A | I've applied for over 50 jobs: what am I doing wrong?Learn more about the team behind the podcast:Laura's LinkedInAnna's LinkedInKCL CareersLinkedIn - Kings Careers Network for ResearchersIf you've enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review FormFollow us on Bluesky: @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social (new episodes are announced here), @openresleeds.bsky.social, @researchcultureuol.bsky.socialConnect to us on LinkedIn: @ResearchUncoveredPodcast (new episodes are announced here too).If you would like to contribute to a podcast episode get in touch: researcherdevelopment@leeds.ac.ukIf you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please consider leaving a review on your favourite podcast app, via Podchaser, or by submitting an online review form.✍ Podchaser✍ Online Review FormFollow us on Bluesky: @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social (new episodes are announced here), @openresleeds.bsky.social, @researchcultureuol.bsky.socialConnect to us on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/compa
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At the University of Leeds, we believe that all members of our research community play a crucial role in developing and promoting a positive and inclusive research culture. Across the globe, the urgent need for a better Research Culture in Higher Education is widely accepted – but how do you make it happen? This weekly podcast focuses on our ideas, approaches and learning as we contribute to the University's attempt to create a Research Culture in which everyone can thrive. Whether you undertake, lead, fund or benefit from research - these are the conversations to listen to if you want to explore what a positive Research Culture is and why it matters.Unless specified in the episode shownotes, Research Culture Uncovered © 2023 by Research Culturosity, University of Leeds is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. Some episod
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