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.

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.

Research Culture Day

Lancaster's first research Culture Day was held on Thursday, 3 September 2024. It was a day dedicated to showcasing all the exciting work that is taking place around research culture at the University and an invitation to research staff, research enabling staff, technicians and postgraduate researchers to get involved in the activities and conversations.

More details of the sessions held on the day and links to the presentations is available on the Research Culture Day webpage.

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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Lancaster University researchers investigating consumer attitudes and behaviours around plastic food packaging have found UK households are ‘wishcycling’ rather than recycling – and say it’s a problem that everyone has to solve.

Lancaster University signs Memorandum of Understanding with Trinity Hospice

Lancaster University has signed a partnership agreement with Blackpool’s Trinity Hospice as it continues to find innovative collaborations which strengthen its global reputation for end-of-life care research and education.

Humans have already caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon emissions.

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