Research Culture

At Lancaster University, we cultivate a supportive and inclusive research environment where every individual is empowered to thrive and innovate.

What is Research Culture?

Research Culture is a broad term that encompasses the behaviours, values, expectations, attitudes and norms of our research communities. The Royal Society has put together this video which is helpful in providing definition around the term Research Culture.

What Research Culture means to us:

The Research Excellence Culture Action Plan (ReCAP) is Lancaster's commitment to fostering an environment that supports high-quality, ethical, and inclusive research. This plan outlines four key themes aimed at ensuring the integrity of our research, enabling collaboration and innovation opportunities, recognising and developing our research community, creating a supportive and inclusive environment and recognising and developing our research community. The four themes are illustrated below, each with their own associated sub-themes.

Theme Infographics/Diagram

  • Integrity

    Read more on how we support our researchers through our Integrity practices.

  • Collaboration and Innovation

    Read more on how we support our researchers through our Collaboration and Innovation practices.

  • Supportive and Inclusive Environment

    Read more on how we support our researchers through our Supportive and Inclusive Environment practices.

  • Recognising and Developing

    Read more on how we support our researchers through our Recognising and Developing practices.

Contact Us

We welcome input from our community and encourage colleagues to share their feedback on our research culture.

For any questions or enquiries, please feel free to get in touch via email at: researchculture@lancaster.ac.uk

Research News

Stories from Lancaster's researchers around the world

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NA62 experiment at CERN reports first observation of ultra-rare process that could uncover new physics

Scientists at CERN, including researchers from Lancaster University, have reported the very first observation of an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Lecturer’s ‘pioneering reconstruction’ of dark era shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize

A Lancaster University lecturer is one of six authors shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious history writing award, the Wolfson History Prize 2024.
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Call to improve retention of A&E doctors with better working conditions

The working environment must be improved to improve the retention of A&E doctors, according to the first ever study of why emergency doctors stay - rather than why they leave.
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£850,000 project to improve public health funding at a local level

Lancaster University has been awarded £850,000 by the National Institute for Health Research’s School for Public Health Research (SPHR).
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Lancaster researchers are among an international team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to identify their first neutrinos.

 

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