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Research Culture Conference 2024
Advancing Research Culture Conversations in Ireland
Date: 16 May 2024 Place: South East Technological University ((opens in a new window)SETU)
Programme
The All-Island Research Culture Conference programme included sessions that address Research Assessment, Engaged Research, and Equality Diversity and Inclusion.
The All-Island Research Culture Network, supported by the Wellcome Institutional Funding for Research Culture was launched at this conference. The network will initially be led by University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast. Regular network meetings, alternating between in-person and hybrid will facilitate sharing best practice and current developments in areas that impact Research Culture (open research, research assessment, research integrity, RURM, EDI, recognition of team contributions, wellbeing).
PDF Programme Research Culture Conference 2024 PDF Speakers’ bios and abstracts
| Session | Speaker & Title | Slides |
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| Plenary | Dr Rosalind Attenborough, Research Culture & Communities Specialist, Wellcome Research Culture @ Wellcome and our Institutional Funding |
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| Irish Wellcome Projects | University College Cork The External Voice in Defining an Engaged and Inclusive Institutional Research Culture: Engaged & Inclusive Research Culture Alliance (ERICA) |
Galvan_RC_Conference_2024.pdf |
| Queen's University Belfast & Ulster University Northern Ireland Research |
Browne_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| University College Dublin Research Culture - Networking, Empowerment, Engagement & Wellbeing (RENEEW) |
Mulcahy_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| All-Island Research Culture Network Launch! | Thomas_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Engaged Research | Dr Martin Galvin, Head of Research Culture, Engagement & Impact, UCC Research, University College Cork Addressing SOCIETAL CHALLENGES Together/Engaged Research for Impact: Fundamentals |
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| Professor Maggie O’Neill, Director of UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures and ISS21 (Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century) Working Together to Create Change: Addressing Gender Based Violence and Coercive Control |
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| Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) | Professor Karen McCloskey, Deputy Director of Patrick G Johnston Cancer Centre, and Director of Queen’s Gender Initiative, Queen’s University Belfast Reflections on gender equality and experiences of the Athena Swan Charter |
McCloskey_RC_Conference_2024.pdf |
| Dr Wendy McLoone, Acting Director of Research, Queen’s University Belfast EDI in Research Action Plan – Queen’s University Belfast |
McLoone_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Dr Thandiwe Hara, Regional Innovation & Engagement Manager and Co-Author of ‘(opens in a new window)Equity and inclusivity in research funding’ report, University of Oxford Equity and inclusivity in Research Funding : Tackling Barriers to Change |
Hara_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Professor Rachael Cowen, University of Manchester, University Academic Lead for Gender and Sexual Orientation Equality and Athena Swan Panel Chair, Advance HE Reflection on Gender Equality and Challenges for Academic Careers |
Cowen_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Research Assessment | Dr Marion Boland, Head of Research Policy, Science Foundation Ireland |
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| Dr Kay Guccione, Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development and Co-Director of the Lab for Academic Culture University of Glasgow Collegiality: will we know it when we see it? |
Guccione_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Dr Kevin Daly, University College Dublin & Young Academy of Ireland Perspectives from an Early Career Researcher |
Daly_RC_Conference_2024.pdf | |
| Dr Maura Hiney, Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity, University College Dublin Research and researcher assessment: International initiatives to shift the dial |
Hiney_RC_Conference_2024.pdf |
Research Culture Conference 2024 Planning Committee
- Grace Mulcahy, UCD (chair)
- Geraldine Canny, SETU
- Eimear Fitzpatrick, SETU
- Irene Kavanagh, UCC
- David O’Connell, UCC
- Elizabeth Carroll-Twomey, MTU
- Ruth Moran, ATU
- Chris Browne, QUB
- Colleen Thomas, UCD
