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Research culture encompasses the behaviours, values, expectations, attitudes and norms of our research communities. It influences researchers’ career paths and determines the way that research is conducted and communicated.
Research culture impacts all aspects of the research process, including:
- outlining or drawing up research questions and hypotheses
- preparing applications for funding, protocol design
- project set up and management
- generating data
- data recording and analysis
- writing up and publishing
- other forms of disseminating results, including impact generating activities and the research elements of innovation activities.
UEA is committed to maintaining the highest standards of research, research quality, and research environment and to promote and support a positive and open research culture across the university. The University's Research Integrity Statement, and Statement on the Responsible Use of Metrics in Research Assessment can be read here.
We have established a Research Culture Group to develop an action plan and to ensure that a positive research culture is an explicit part of our research and innovation strategy.
See below our Research Culture Timeline and Current Research Culture Activities and Initiatives:
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Research Culture Strategy: Current Activities and Initiatives
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Research With Us
We have developed Case Studies based on real-life experiences, which illustrate ethics issues and promote good research practices such as open research to help other researchers or members of the University’s Ethics Review Committees:
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Ethics: CivicUEA Project Design
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Ethics: Supervisor Mentoring
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Researcher Development: UNESCO Chair Programme
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Open research: Microfinance misconceptions
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Open research: Brain evolution
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Open research: A royal shipwreck
The UEA Local Leads for the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) supported by the UEA Library have been running a series of hybrid ReproducibiliTeas with talks by national and international speakers which are available on the UEA YouTube channel. The goal of the UEA ReproducibiliTeas is to raise awareness and foster training about reproducible research practices across disciplines.