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ARRC team members Kate Murray and Becky Ioppolo talked with the King's College London 'Careers in your Ears' podcast about Narrative CVs and our study on how they could be used in academic hiring.Follow the link below to listen!Careers in Your Ears: Series 10: Ep6 Narrative CVs Demystified on Apple Podcasts

HOPE AND EXPECTATION IN RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPSMollie EtheridgeEarlier this week my colleague gleefully announced her acquisition of a new bean plant, clarifying that she gardens with hope and not with expectation. Sitting down to write this blog, I found myself stuck on this distinction and its relevance to the project I’m currently working on, whi…

CRASSH Research Culture Seminar Series: How Do Women Researchers Navigate Research Culture at Cambridge?We were delighted to have the following speakers on our latest CRASSH research culture panel:Claire Barlow (Department of Engineering)Mollie Etheridge (Faculty of Education)Esra Ozyurek (Faculty of Divinity)The panel was moderated by Marie Collie…

Should I publish my monograph open access?'[Open research practices] demonstrate the role a university can have in feeding knowledge to people, irrespective of their personal wealth or the infrastructure of the country they live in.'~ Prof Geoffrey KhanModerator:Joanna Page (Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of CRASSH)Panel:Rachel Br…

Last week we attended the Clinical School’s EDI and Culture conference. We had a great day and would like to thank the organisers for inviting us.  Between manning the research culture resources table and our posters, we managed to attend most of the talks. Here are a few personal highlights: Simon Woolley gave the keynote; an inspiring account of …

I’m writing this series of blog posts to share what I’m learning about Narrative CVs with you – it’s aimed both at people applying for grants, jobs, or those supporting them.  I’m going to summarise some of the relevant resources available for you – and ask you for your thoughts and comments on them as I go along. This first blog post is going to l…

As part of our team Peer Learning Seminar series, we had the pleasure of hearing from Kate Daubney, in conversation with the ARRC Project’s careers consultant Kate Murray. Kate Daubney is a freelance employability specialist who works with universities and sector suppliers around the world. She has had a rich and fascinating career that encompasses…

CRASSH seminar series on research culture: 'how can we foster good research culture in our departments?’Our first CRASSH seminar series in research culture focused on ‘how can we foster good research culture in our departments?’ The background to this is a growing movement towards improving culture and working environment in academia. However, rese…

Team Belbin trainingLast week the ARRC team completed a Belbin career development training. We all gathered at the West Hub in Cambridge, somewhat nervously, having completed questionnaires on our perceptions of each other in the workplace. Our interest was both personal (who doesn’t love being profiled by all your colleagues?) and professional (St…

The Narrative CV from an ARRC researcher / applicant perspectiveThe ARRC team are studying the effect of Narrative CVs in recruitment. We also asked our researchers to submit a Narrative CV to apply for their positions. In this blog we review their experience of doing this / being a Narrative CV guinea pig.None of our researchers had come across th…

The difficulty in defining ‘research culture’When we talk about research culture to other researchers, they often have an instinctive understanding of what we mean, but a precise definition has been hard to come by. This is because there tends to be a nucleus of topics that many agree are central to the terminology (such as collegiality and reward …

Liz Simmonds and Steven Wooding are co-PIs on a newly-launched study - the Action Research on Research Culture (ARRC) Project, which is being carried out in association with the Bennett Institute, at which Steven is an affiliated researcher. Liz and Steven bring a complementary set of expertise to the study; Liz has had an extensive career in HR an…