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 Culture Week 2025
This is an event dedicated to promoting the initiatives and opportunities that enhance our research culture. We have invited members of the research community to complete expressions of interest - such as something to showcase, a great idea for the programme or the delivery of a workshop/short presentation.
We've been delighted with the response and are busy putting together the programme. This promises to be engaging, interactive and wide-ranging, demonstrating all the best that is happening in research culture at Lancaster. We will be posting the programme here shortly.
The main event will take place on Wednesday, 24 September, with further activities taking place across the week. It is targeted at anyone with an interest in research culture including staff researchers, postgraduate researchers, technician’s, academics, research enabling staff.
In the meantime details and the presentations from the Research Culture Day 2024 are available..
We asked for the expressions of interest to be received by early June so that we could shape the programme. However, do contact Amy and Chris if you have any further proposals and we will endeavour to include these at: researchculture@lancaster.ac.uk
Inkpath, widening access to PGR development opportunities
Postgraduate researchers (PGRs) at Lancaster now have access to Inkpath, an online platform which brings Lancaster’s professional and academic development opportunities into one place. It gives PGRs the ability to more easily find activities from across the whole institution, rather than just their local area, whilst reflecting on their development and tracking progress.
Explore Inkpath
If you want to explore PGR development content, visit Inkpath to create your profile and get started.
If you have content you would like to see added to Inkpath, please contact pgrtraining@lancaster.ac.uk.
Inkpath is funded through the Enhancing Research Culture allocation.
Gender-Awareness and Inclusivity in Research
This guide has been created to support researchers and research enabling staff to incorporate gender awareness and inclusivity during four key stages of research:
- Creating a gender-aware and inclusive research team
- Designing a gender-aware and inclusive research project
- Developing a gender aware and inclusive research methodology
- Preparing a gender-aware and inclusive dissemination plan
Reflective questions are outlined in each stage that researchers and their teams can ask themselves to ensure due diligence.
