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Learn about the cross-UCL and faculty-led research culture initiatives that have run since 2021.
Current initiatives
These projects were launched听in听2022/23 and will continue in 2023/24, unless otherwise indicated. Each project has听been mapped against at least听one theme of the Research Culture Roadmap.
For more details about any of the projects, contact听researchculture@ucl.ac.uk.
- Cross-UCL
- Fair and transparent academic promotions (themes 1, 2 and 5)
- Fellowship Incubator听(theme听1)
- Excellence in research leadership (themes 2 and 3)
- Academic Careers Office
- ADAPT to Grow听鈥� resilience building and online coaching for doctoral students听(themes 1 and 5)
- ADAPT to Lead 听鈥� Talent management and leadership training听(themes听1 and 2)
- CONNECT - support for interdisciplinar researchers听(themes 1, 3 and 5)
- 360 Feedback tool - launching 2023/24 (theme 2)
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Research and Innovation Grants (themes 2 and 3)
- The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
- ECR听Survey and Good Practice Sharing (themes 1, 2 and 3)
- Trial and Error Hackathon (themes 2, 3 and 5)
- BEAMS (Bartlett, Engineering, and Maths & Physical Sciences faculties)
- Positive Futures (themes 1, 2, 3 and 5)
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Technician and Research Assistant Leadership Development Programme (themes 1, 2 and 5)
- IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
- Research Centres Away Day (theme 3)
- Research Mentoring Training (theme 1)
- Research Impact Fellowship (theme 1)
- Research Leadership programme (theme 2)
- Faculty of Laws
- Research centre fund -听launching in 2023/24 (themes tbc)
- Faculty of Life Sciences
- Faculty Festival of Research (themes 3, 4 and 5)
- Inclusive Leadership and Race Awareness Workshops (themes 2 and 5)
- Faculty of Medical Sciences
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion networking events - 2022/23 only听(themes 1, 3 and 5)
- Career Development workshops - launching听2023/24听(themes听1, 3 and 5)
- Research Culture Seminar Series (themes 1 and 5)
- Faculty of Population Health Sciences
- Appraisal Survey Analysis (themes 1 and 5)
- Improving Research Culture Grants (themes听2, 3 and 5)
- Team of the Year (themes 2 and 5)
- Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
- Working with international collaborators - launching 2023/24听(themes听1, 2, 3 and 5)
- Developing Impact Beyond REF听(themes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
- Fieldwork Safety Standards - launching 2023/24听(themes 1, 2, 3 and 5)
2021/22
These projects were launched and successfully delivered in 2021/22 under the Enhancing Research Culture Programme.听
For more details about any of the projects, contact researchculture@ucl.ac.uk.
- Cross-UCL projects
- PI leadership programme
- What is a leader at 皇家华人?
- Internal coaching provision for UCL community
- Gather data requirements for research community
- Research community data dashboard
- Researcher Hub webpages
- PGR career training
- Increase awareness and use of Report and Support data
- Research networking opportunities for learning and development
- Pilot seed-funding for ECR development
- Increase intercultural competence
- Open science training tool
- One-day online event on research culture
- Ethnographic study on research culture
- REF 2021 EDI data analysis and forward planning
- IOE -听Faculty of Education and Society
- Online research ethics at the IOE module
- Guide to teaching and learning research ethics
- Web platform to foster relationship building with users (schools/educators), potential funders and ECRs
- New training schemes and resources to support development of research culture
- Mentoring training听
- Faculty of Laws
- Research away day for the whole faculty
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Six Impact Fellowships
- Report on attitudes and expectations of A&H researchers
- Workshop 1: Theme: Research Sustainability and Curation
- Workshop 2: Theme: Open Access
- Workshop 3: Theme: Impact
- BEAMS (Bartlett, Engineering and Maths and Physical Sciences faculties)
- Positive Futures: co-creating a desired research culture with and for the academic leaders of the future
- School of Life and听Medical Sciences
- New training and resources on anti-harassment and bullying
- Mini-plays and resources on interdisciplinarity and intercultural collaborations
- Healthy and inclusive research environment podcast series
- Develop听an academic 360 feedback process
- Mini-plays and resources on barriers to students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Away days across the faculties aimed听at ECRs and building communities
- Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
- Catalysing UCL Grand Challenges
- Early Career Researcher summer grant-writing workshop
- Research staff development and networking day
- History of Art PhD students away day
- Develop听future collaborations between academic and commercial archaeology at 皇家华人
- LoBArC launch event and networking workshop
- Navigating the PhD: managing research & relationships听