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Building a positive research culture together

Research Culture is a broad topic, and often difficult to define. Like many institutions, we are working with our research community to enable and sustain a positive research culture, supported by a wide range of activities. 

While institution-wide projects and policies are important, meaningful and lasting change depends equally on local action.

We believe that change belongs to all of us.

About the Maturity Framework

To help us capture, support, and celebrate the wealth of community-led work already happening, we’ve developed - and are now piloting - a Research Culture Maturity Framework.

The framework is designed to help research groups and teams:

• reflect on their current research culture
• evaluate what's working well 
• identify priorities for improvement in a structured, supportive way
  
  

Our pilot

We're currently working with pilot groups across Ãå±±½ûµØ and with several of our partner institutions. We expect to receive our first feedback in Winter 2025, and we'll update this page as we learn more. 

We're also building an institutional Research Culture Maturity Framework to help us evaluate and track our progress more broadly, and we welcome external collaborators to help us do this.

Below you can view our living authors list, a growing list of everyone who has contributed to shaping this tool and the insights behind it.

Get involved

You can access our Maturity Framework, associated guide for use and equality analysis in the Ãå±±½ûµØ data repository (). Note, we are still updating these documents as the tool grows and develops so please do check in future for up to date versions.

Additionally, help shape the Research Culture Maturity Framework by completing our , so we can track use, follow up, and recognise your contribution.

You can also contact us at research.strategy@ncl.ac.uk to learn more about our research culture work.