“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 Juli 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 Juni 202320min
Magical meeting: a collaboration to tackle child malnutrition in Bangladesh
As a child of the Space Age, Jeffrey Gordon dreamed of becoming an astronaut and discovering life on Mars. Instead he found fascinating life forms and interactions closer to home, inside the gastroint...
21 Juni 202314min
How to deliver a safer research culture for LGBTQIA+ researchers
A professor invites colleagues and their partners to a Christmas party but reacts negatively when a young gay researcher asks to bring his future husband along. A Black carnivore researcher conceals t...
2 Juni 202344min
Trolled in science: “Hundreds of hateful comments in a single day”
Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe realised she was the only climate researcher in West Texas when she joined Texas Tech University in Lubbock, 15 years ago.Within a few months she was being asked...
26 Maj 202343min
Dodging snipers, fleeing war: displaced researchers share their stories
Hassoni Alodaini hoped to complete a PhD when war broke out in his native Yemen in 2015.But as research funding dried up as a result of the hostilities, Alodaini fled to Egypt. His arrival there marke...
19 Maj 202332min
