All-Island Research Culture Network's 2025 Conference:  Principles to Practice 

Date: 13th May 2025   

Venue: Assembly Buildings Conference Centre, Belfast 

Registration opening soon

This conference is funded by Wellcome Institutional Funding for Research Culture and is planned on behalf of the All-Island Research Culture Network by the Network Coordination Group, composed of the following organisations:

Conference themes:

1.  Building Sustainable Research Partnerships

'Strong research partnerships are essential for tackling society’s most complex challenges, whether through international collaboration, interdisciplinary work, or connections across sectors. A robust research culture plays a critical role in fostering these partnerships, ensuring they are grounded in trust, shared values, and mutual respect. Ethics and integrity are fundamental to building sustainable relationships, while research security is increasingly significant, particularly in international contexts where sensitive data and intellectual property must be protected. This session will explore how a positive research culture supports the development of effective partnerships, addressing the challenges and opportunities for collaboration at all levels.'

2.  Measuring Research Culture Progress

'Research culture is about the behaviour of people in our research community - the quality of their working relationships, which roles are included as part of research careers, how contributions to research are valued, and how research is communicated. Increasingly, excellence of research institutions and researchers themselves is partially evaluated on the culture they cultivate. How can we measure culture change? This session will explore the development of research culture indicators, directional changes in culture, and models to inform good practice and policy.'

3.  Research Careers

'High quality research talent is a vital component for the R&I ecosystem in Ireland. Careers in research may be pursued through a diverse range of interrelated roles. While academic roles are often the most visible, the full range of research careers include early stage researchers like graduate research students and postdoctoral researchers as well as research managers and administrators and technical officers. Clear opportunities for progression through and across research roles are essential. This session will explore early career researcher development and recognition for curvy research career paths as valuable supports for a thriving research ecosystem in Ireland.'

Poster Presentation Session:

Call for Poster Presentation Abstracts is now open!

Do you have a Research Culture Initiative you would like to share?

The aim of the Poster Presentation Session is to provide a platform to the All-Island Research Culture Network and others across and external to the island of Ireland, to showcase initiatives that are enhancing Research Culture in research performing organisations.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Research Assessment Reform
• Engaged Participatory Research
• Measuring Research Culture Progress
• Wellbeing
• Diversity of Research Cultures
• Supporting cross-disciplinary research
• Research Careers
• Research Culture – Research Integrity Nexus
• Sustaining Research Culture in small specialist institutions
• Other (Abstracts that address specific areas not covered above are welcomed)

The deadline to submit abstracts is Tuesday 18th March 2025. 

For more information, guidance, and to submit an abstract, please click here.