Research Cultures Forum

The Research Cultures Forum is open to anyone at the University of Edinburgh with an interest in research cultures — and we'd love you to get involved. The Forum is a space where members from across Schools, Colleges and support services can come together to shape the University's approach to research cultures, feeding into policies and initiatives, sharing challenges and good practice. The Forum holds open online meetings four times a year, and operates a teams channel to share events, news and activities — making it easy to engage in a way that suits you. If you care about creating a fair, more inclusive and more supportive environment for research at Edinburgh, we would love you to attend. 

The Forum is a critical friend to the University in highlighting areas of difficulty or challenge for our research community that may need to be addressed by Research Strategy Group or other University management structures. It is also a resource for the University in accessing a broad range of views and inputs into activity that might impact on research cultures. 

The link to join the teams channel is below, open meetings of the forum will be advertised regularly.

Research Cultures Forum Co-Chairs

Anna Krzak, Research Information Manager & Open Research Coordinator, Research Office, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, Anna.Krzak@ed.ac.uk 

Professor Karen Halliday, Chair of Systems Physiology, School of Biological Sciences, and Dean of Systemic Inclusion, College of Science & Engineering, karen.halliday@ed.ac.uk

Research Cultures Forum Teams Channel

• Join the Research Cultures Forum Teams Channel

Research Cultures Forum Committee Site

The Forum operates transparently, promoting inclusion and engagement in its activity.  We will hold meetings that are open to the whole University community and we will make the agenda, notes of the meeting and papers available publicly via this committee site:

• Research Cultures Forum Committee Site