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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

Opening Words

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SETU President Prof. Veronica Campbell

Welcome

 

Plenary

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Dr Rosalind Attenborough, Research Culture & Communities Specialist, Wellcome

Research Culture @ Wellcome and our Institutional Funding

 

Irish Wellcome Projects

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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
Culture Network

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!

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University College Dublin & Queen's University Belfast Thomas_RC_Conference_2024.pdf

Engaged Research

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Dr Martin Galvin, Head of Research Culture, Engagement & Impact, UCC Research, University College Cork 

Addressing SOCIETAL CHALLENGES Together/Engaged Research for Impact: Fundamentals

 
 

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

 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

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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

Research Assessment

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Dr Marion Boland, Head of Research Policy, Science Foundation Ireland

 
 

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

Panel Discussion

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Moderator:  Dr Geraldine Canny, Head of Research, SETU

Panel members:

  • Dr Rosalind Attenborough, Research Culture and Communities Specialist at Wellcome
  • Dr Kay Guccione,  Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development and Co-Director of the Lab for Academic Culture University of Glasgow
  • Dr Maura Hiney, Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity, University College Dublin
  • Dr Stefan Müller, School of Politics and International Relations, UCD
  • Dr Emma Dorris, Public and Patient Involvement Project Officer, Programme Manager PPI Ignite@UCD
 

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

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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
E: research.culture@ucd.ie