Dr Karen Stroobants

Dr Karen Stroobants is a co-Founder of CultureBase, a consultancy that supports research organisations to improve how research is done. Specialising in research culture and assessment, she developed the Royal Society of Chemistry’s science culture vision in 2023 and co-delivered the Royal Society’s research culture programme in 2018.

Karen was the penholder for drafting the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment in 2022, and has been Vice-Chair of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) since 2022. She also is on the External Advisory Group of the University of Cambridge Action Research on Research Culture project.