Research Culturosity, University of Leeds
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How research culture changes in practice.
Research Culture Uncovered examines the working conditions, systems, and communities that shape academic research. Through measured conversations and multi-guest episodes, it turns university practice into questions about impact, open research, technician visibility, disability justice, and career development.
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Research Culture Uncovered is a measured, practice-minded show about how academic research environments are made, maintained, and changed. Its center of gravity is higher education, but its questions are broader than any single institution. What helps researchers thrive. Who gets noticed. Which systems shape the work before anyone names them as culture. Recent episodes show the range clearly: research impact in Canada, a retiring academic developer's long view of university change, UKRN network-building, technician visibility, disability justice in podcasting, and worldwide reflections on what shapes a researcher. The conversations are usually patient. Guests are allowed to build an argument from experience, while the interviewer keeps drawing connections to policy, professional development, institutional design, and community. That gives the show a distinctive texture: practical details first, sector implications close behind. It is not a glossy leadership podcast. It is closer to a working record of people trying to make research systems more humane and more legible. The show pays close attention to research impact, especially the infrastructure and professional roles that have grown around it. It also returns to open research, transparency, reproducibility, and the humility required when different researchers can reach different conclusions from the same data. Inclusion is treated as part of the research system, not an add-on. Episodes on disability justice, podcasting, technician work, library services, and early career development all ask whose labor and knowledge are made visible. The tone is collegial and mildly earnest, with occasional dry humor. A joke episode about having solved research culture works because the show knows that change is never that simple. There are frameworks, networks, and metrics here, but they are tested against lived working conditions. The result is useful for people who care about universities as workplaces and knowledge institutions. Research Culture Uncovered is strongest when it turns a local example into a wider question without losing the person who raised it. It makes research culture sound less like a theme and more like a set of daily choices with consequences.
Made for: For researchers, research managers, academic developers, technicians, library staff, and higher education leaders who want serious conversations about improving research environments. It especially suits listeners who like policy-aware discussion grounded in lived institutional work.
What sets it apart: The show connects university roles to sector-level questions without flattening either side. Its conversations preserve complexity, making space for career memory, practical examples, and the slow work of culture change.
At the University of Leeds, we believe that all members of our research community play a crucial role in developing and promoting a positive and inclusive research culture. Across the globe, the urgent need for a better Research Culture in Higher Education is widely accepted – but how do you make it happen? This weekly podcast focuses on our ideas, approaches and learning as we contribute to the University's attempt to create a Research Culture in which everyone can thrive. Whether you undertake, lead, fund or benefit from research - these are the conversations to listen to if you want to ex...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns research culture into a practical conversation about careers, access, institutional change and the often overlooked work supporting academic inquiry.
Research Culture Uncovered makes the working life around academic research visible. Its rotating interviewers speak with technicians, library leaders, research development staff and scholars, treating careers, institutional change and research impact as parts of the same…
Technicians, disability justice and career pivots give you a wider map of who makes research work.
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A grounded conversation about the people, roles, and assessment choices shaping research impact work.
Research Culture Uncovered treats research impact less as a slogan than as a working system: roles, university units, networks, and the slow effort to place impact on the research ecosystem agenda.
A thoughtful career retrospective on the people and pressures that shape research culture in higher education.
A long professional friendship gives this career retrospective an easy, reflective shape, as Jed Hall and Dr Jim Baxter look at how research culture is formed by the people who build and support it.
A clear, measured discussion of how researcher choices vary, and why transparency matters.
Research Culture Uncovered frames open research as a problem of judgment: give different teams the same hypothesis and data, and their reasonable analytical choices may still lead in different directions.
A grounded look at the technicians and library services supporting research at Leeds.
Research Culture Uncovered uses Leeds's annual Tech Exchange Fair to show the work that keeps research moving, with Lily, a journalism master's student and student ambassador, speaking to people at the event.
A thoughtful case for podcasting as access, connection, and knowledge-making.
This episode treats research culture as something lived rather than abstract. Emily Ennis speaks with Dr. Elena Gautier-Mamaril, a disabled philosopher of disability and scholarly podcaster, about anti-ableist research culture, disability justice, and the role of audio in…
A grounded account of leaving academia for project management, with confidence built the hard way.
Ruth Winden and Dr. Shirley-Ann Poole present a clear career-change story. After years in higher education, Shirley-Ann describes moving into project management and finding that the skills she already had could carry into a very different setting.
A clear introduction to a new host and to the podcast's research-culture focus.
Research Culture Uncovered uses this episode to introduce its new host, Dr Emily Ennis, while setting out the podcast's interest in what research culture is and what it should be.
A clear look at library careers shaped by detours, stewardship, and purpose.
Academic library work sits at the center here, but the more interesting thread is how a career can take shape without ever looking like a straight climb.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Jed Hall interviews David Phipps, York University's assistant vice president for research strategy and impact, about a career that began with immunology work on HIV at Queen's University and the Kingston AIDS Project.
Research Culture Uncovered features Jed Hall interviewing Jim Baxter about 32 years at the University of Leeds and his retirement at the end of July 2026.
Research Culture Uncovered host Nick Shepherd interviews Dr Eike Rinke, a University of Leeds lecturer in Politics and Media and local network lead for the UK Reproducibility Network.
Research Culture Uncovered visits the University of Leeds Tech Exchange Fair, where Lily interviews Professor Nick Plant, Claire Knowles, and technician Leslie Neve about technical work in research.
This episode explores what shapes researchers through reflections from a Worldwide Universities Network series, examining questions about research vision, impact, careers, and culture.
Emily Ennis talks with Dr.
In this April Fool's Day episode, the hosts humorously claim to have solved research culture before reflecting on actual achievements and ongoing challenges in higher education.
This episode explores maturity frameworks for research culture, featuring interviews with university research culture managers to discuss building buy-in for collective action and measuring change.
This episode features reflections from Research Impact Professionals who attended the first Impact Ignite conference, discussing its significance and their experiences.
Jed Hall interviews Dr.
This episode introduces a new co-host and discusses their background in research impact at the University of Leeds.
Emily Goodall interviews James Parry about research misconduct and his work in research integrity and culture.
This episode explores research culture and inclusion through the lens of LGBTQ+ History Month, featuring guests discussing their work on equity and belonging in academia.
This episode explores the role of research funders in shaping research culture, featuring an interview with Dr.
Ruth Winden opens with a practical question about moving from research into project management.
Emma opens the episode by introducing the podcast's new host, Dr Emily Ennis.
Nick speaks with Josh Sendell about the library career that has now led to his recent appointment as librarian and keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds Libraries.
This episode explores how to support researchers after they receive funding, featuring guests from the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network.
An interview with the CEO of Emerald Publishing about research culture and impact in higher education.
This episode discusses strategies for reclaiming a research career after maternity leave, featuring academics sharing their experiences and approaches.
This episode explores creative, community-led research in practice, focusing on drag artists' experiences with law and injustice.
This episode discusses chronic pain, disability, and neurodiversity in research, blending personal reflections with academic insights to promote inclusion.
This episode explores the role of Wikimedians in residence at universities, discussing how they advocate for open knowledge and contribute to research culture.
An interview with Dr Vicky Ward about research impact and knowledge mobilisation in higher education.
This episode explores the concept of failure in academia and how to approach it with self-compassion.
This episode explores the role of ethics review in fostering a positive research culture, featuring an interview with Professor Judith Hanks.
Nick interviews Simon Hetrick about the Hidden Ref campaign and the 5% Manifesto, which aim to recognize all research outputs and roles, including research software engineers.
This episode explores career mobility between academia and industry, featuring an interview with Danny Croucher from the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) and insights from University of Leeds researchers.
This episode discusses engaging postdoctoral researchers and co-creating a positive research culture through a new newsletter initiative called Pathfinder.
This episode explores the concept of pracademia through an interview with Dr.
A podcast exploring research culture in higher education, featuring an interview with Christine Wilson from the British Council.
This episode explores the research management and administration ecosystem through an interview with expert Simon Kerridge, discussing career development and professional support in academia.
This episode explores how to handle professional failure in academia through open discussion of personal experiences, including sensitive topics like depression and suicidal thoughts.
Nick discusses rights retention with colleagues Jonathan and Jane, focusing on its importance for researchers at the University of Leeds.
An episode of Research Culture Uncovered discussing rights retention and its role in achieving sustainable open access in the UK and Europe.
This episode discusses LinkedIn Learning and digital career management for researchers at the University of Leeds.