Progressing positive and inclusive research culture at the University of Dundee

The IFRC will advance strategies to sustain a positive research culture by underpinning a portfolio of activities that will break barriers, support career transitions, and develop a caring inclusive interdisciplinary community of researchers. It will support the development of listening leaders and have core initiatives to flexibly support the careers of women, BAME, early career researchers and primary caregivers. It will engage ‘Hidden’ researchers from the many University roles who make key often unrecognised contributions. For example, administrators, technical and finance staff. The aim will be to have a community of confident, collaborative, and inspired researchers who feel their voice is both heard and acted upon. We also want a listening research community particularly in the context of hearing the views and ideas of patients and the public to ensure our research is directed to impact in a way that meaningfully improves lives. At the core of the programmes will be empowerment of the community to direct, evolve and manage interventions. The evaluation of the individual and combined interventions designed to build and sustain positive research cultures will be assessed against specified outcome measures, drawing on bespoke instruments, such as professional identity self-assessment toolkit, qualitative interviews, and competence frameworks.