Content by Gareth Moore, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. Why should a PhD student be concerned with leadership training? After all, being in a position of leadership, especially in academia, comes after many years toiling in the lab....
Content by Henry Munyananduki, Marie Di Placido, Pengxiang Chang, Abigail Hay, Carrie Batten, and Caroline Wright, attendees of the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. The workshop introduced researchers to the fundamentals of leadership. Last month, six of...
Content by Abigail Hay, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. I left knowing, instead of wondering if, I was doing a good job. A fortnight has passed since I spent two days in the beautiful Cumberland Lodge nestled in the heart of Windsor Great...
Content by Tabea Gerlach, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. Before coming into this workshop, I had little idea of the skills or characteristics a leader should bring. I had seen so many examples of bad leadership in academia and thought...
Content by Nadine Aschaur, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. Blog: Three Take-Aways Being grateful about the opportunity of participating in the transformational UKRN Leadership Training 2022, I am delighted to share three take-aways:...
Dr Amy Orben is the recipient of the 2002 UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize. Dr Amy Orben received the prize consisting of a ‘Doscar’ and £500 at the UKRN Annual Meeting on 11 March 2022. Dr Amy Orben has been a champion of open research since early in her PhD,...
Three nominees have been shortlisted for the UKRN 2022 Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize. Dr Amy Orben Dr Charlotte Pennington Dr Samuel Westwood The UKRN Advisory Board shortlisted from a pool of 12 nominees and 30 nominations, based its assessment on the...
Marcus Munafo (Chair of UKRN Supervisory Board) and Andrew Jones (Local Network Lead for the University of Liverpool) will be taking part in Open Research Week 2022, hosted by the local Universities in Liverpool. They will be discussing the benefits of adopting open...
We are delighted to welcome Neil Jacobs as the new Head of the UKRN Open Research Programme. Neil will be leading our Research England funded project “Growing and Embedding Open Research in Institutional Practice and Culture”. He has over 30 years of experience in the...
Emily Farran represented the UKRN at the recent UKRI online engagement event on Enhancing Research Culture. Emily was part of a discussion panel, which represented the views from four different Research England funded projects, including our recent own funded project,...
