Ensuring the Integrity of our Research
This is one of the four themes within the Research excellence Culture action Plan (ReCAP). Information about some key projects within this theme are below.
Research Integrity, Ethics and Impact Training
LU is committed to having the highest standards of research integrity and rigour and ensuring that our research generates powerful impact. This commitment is demonstrated through our investment, through the Enhancing Research Culture fund, in the following courses:
Research Integrity
Ethical Research
Research Impact
Postgraduate researchers and new research staff are required to complete the Integrity and Ethics courses, whereas anyone involved in research at Lancaster is encouraged to take the courses. For more established researchers they will act as a useful refresher and help keep up to date with emerging priorities such as Trusted Research and Export Controls and Open Research.
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Research Integrity, Ethics and Impact TrainingReimagining Research Practices: towards a sustainable, ethical and inclusive future
Lancaster University has received £1M funding from the Wellcome Trust for this groundbreaking project. It explores how research practices can be made more sustainable, ethical and inclusive.
Ethics is explored in the context of the digital revolution, and embedding environmental sustainability practices and behaviours will support the University's goal of net zero by 2035.
Dissemination and engagement at Lancaster and across higher education institutions is key to ensuring this project makes a positive impact on research culture.
To find out more contact Project Manager Catriona Gold: c.gold@lancaster.ac.uk
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Trailblazers - an Open Access Monograph and Book initiative for ECRs
Lancaster University Library has an ambition to facilitate a Research Culture in which publishing Open Access Books is seen as part of normal, everyday practice. The Trailblazers Scheme is open to Post Graduate Researchers (PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECR) and provides the opportunity to publish a funded Open Access Book, to maximise the opportunity for impact from early career research. Trailblazers' authors will also take part in a series of author boot camps, which will equip researchers with the knowledge and skills to support the publication of their work throughout their careers.
The Trailblazers scheme is an annual scheme founded by a collaboration between the libraries of Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, University of Salford, and the distinguished publisher Liverpool University Press. Additional institutions will join future iterations of the scheme.
Lancaster University's involvement in the scheme is in part supported by Enhancing Research Culture funding from Research England.
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Trailblazers link sectionQuality of Research (QR) Funding
Lancaster receives funding from Research England to support our research and knowledge exchange activities. Two funds were available for applications for 2024-2025:
Policy Support Fund
This funding supports universities in undertaking research with local, regional, national and international structures.
Participatory Research Fund
Participatory or co-produced research strengthens research outcomes by involving the communities and users of research, better recognising their experience, needs and preferences, and giving greater agency to communities to put findings into practice.
Applications are now closed for 2024/25. 13 cases are being supported across the two funds. Case studies will be posted in due course.
