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Hope and Expectation in Research Relationships

2 May 2024

HOPE AND EXPECTATION IN RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPS Mollie Etheridge Earlier 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...

CRASSH Research Culture Seminar Series: How Do Women Researchers Navigate Research Culture at Cambridge?

29 February 2024

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)...

CRASSH seminars on research culture: Should I publish my monograph open access?

8 January 2024

Should I publish my monograph open access? 20231219_135845-collage_110percent.jpg '[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 Khan Moderator: Joanna Page (...

Clinical School EDI and Culture Conference

18 December 2023

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...

Decoding Narrative CVs: Purpose, Mastery, Review.

21 November 2023

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...

Peer Learning Seminar: Kate Daubney on career skills and academia.

16 November 2023

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...

CRASSH Seminar Series on Research Culture: 'how can we foster good research culture in our departments?’

7 November 2023

CRASSH seminar series on research culture: 'how can we foster good research culture in our departments?’ 20231106_121002-collage_500.jpg 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...

Team Belbin training

13 September 2023

Team Belbin training Last 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...

The Narrative CV from an ARRC researcher / applicant perspective

13 September 2023

The Narrative CV from an ARRC researcher / applicant perspective The 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...

The difficulty in defining 'research culture'

5 September 2023

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...