(S5 Trailer) Season 5 - brief introduction and how to contribute

Intro: 00:00:00

Welcome to the Research Culture Uncovered podcast, where in every episode we explore what is research culture and what should it be. You'll hear thoughts and opinions from a range of contributors to help you change research culture into what you want it to be.

Ged: 00:00:23

Hi, my name is Ged Hall and I'm an Academic Development Consultant at the University of Leeds.

I'll be your host in season five of the Research Culture Uncovered podcast, which starts on the 21st of June. The theme for the season is how research impact has affected research culture, and more importantly, how to make sure those effects are positive. In the season, I'll be talking to colleagues from the UK and internationally about a range of topics including cultural differences between different HE sectors, cultural differences between HE and policy, co-production and its role in generating impact, leadership within research and its role in creating the environment to do great research and have great impact and the types of research impact strategies that have emerged across the globe in research institutions.

But in this trailer, I don't want to just encourage you to listen to those conversations, but to get engaged yourself.

For the final episode in the series, I'm hoping to showcase all of your hopes for how research impact can be embedded into research practice in a positive way and how you are making that happen. Conversely, I'd also like to hear about your fears for the future and what you are doing to stopping those fears becoming a reality.

Those hopes and fears and their associated actions could be at a local scale, maybe a research group, or at a national or international scale. I really don't mind, I just want to hear your stories. The reason for crowdsourcing this content is fundamentally to share the actions that you are all taking to build research impact into research culture, and to make research culture what you want it to be.

I have therefore decided to use Padlet as the platform to collect your ideas. All your posts are anonymous but visible to any visitor to the Padlet, so as well as contributing you can also look at what others are trying to do. The posts on the Padlet are organised geographically, and you can choose what granular level you are happy with from just the country you work in you work in right down to the university organisation or research institute you work at. With that, you'll also be able to see what is happening in your 'neck of the woods', which may help you to see that you aren't alone in what you are trying to achieve. And even maybe reach out and help to build a coalition for change in your sector.

Finally, this feels risky for me. All those imposter syndrome thoughts, 'who cares? And why would they tell me?' Flying round in my head and I'm not a real risk taker? Ask my dad how I took to a bike when I was little. 'Uh, no thanks. That's for people who don't mind falling off'. But I know I encourage risk taking when I encourage researchers I work with to reach out to people beyond the academy to look for impact partners.

So I have to walk that talk. I'm just hoping you all get on board, and I don't fret for too long about that response rate. In the show notes, there is a link to a LinkedIn post which describes all of this and how to get involved. And of course, the link to the Padlet itself. I hope you choose to engage, and I thank you for any contribution you make on the Padlet or in sharing this more widely.

And then hopefully I'll see you in June for the start of the season.

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