How to craft a research project with non-academic collaborators
In the penultimate episode of this six-part podcast series about team science, Richard Holliman describes a project involving indigenous researchers in Guyana who wanted to limit insecticide spraying ...
6 Okt 202334min
“Couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” How lab managers and technicians are smashing outdated stereotypes
Elaine Fitzcharles, a senior lab manager at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), says the role is sometimes wrongly perceived as someone who “couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” Fitzcharles and her team o...
29 Sep 202333min
Culture clashes: Unpicking the power dynamics between research managers and academics
Before launching his own consultancy in 2021, Simon Kerridge worked as a research manager in UK academia. “We’re the oil in the cogs,” he says of the role, adding: “Obviously, it’s a service professio...
22 Sep 202336min
This alternative way to measure research impact made judges cry with joy
The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) collects research outputs from UK universities and is used by the the country’s government to distribute around £2 billion in research funding. But its foc...
15 Sep 202331min
“Just get the admin to do it.” Why research managers are feeling misunderstood
In the first episode of a six-part podcast series about research culture and team science, research managers Lorna Wilson and Hilary Noone describe how their skills and expertise can help deliver bett...
8 Sep 202334min
A funder's guide to tackling setbacks and winning grants
In November 2021, Maria Leptin became president of the European Research Council. After a long career in biological research, Leptin admits that starting the process of closing her lab at the European...
31 Aug 202331min
Sexual harassment in science: tackling abusers, protecting targets, changing cultures
In late 2021 a BuzzFeed investigation revealed a catalogue of sexual misconduct incidents at the Panama-based Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Ecologist Sarah Batterman, one of more tha...
20 Jul 202333min
Bullying in academia: why it happens and how to stop it
Morteza Mahmoudi witnessed bullying behaviours during a series of lab visits following his PhD in 2009, and now studies the topic alongside his role as a nanoscience and regenerative medicine research...
28 Jun 202320min
