Enhancing Research Culture at Warwick Medical School (WMS)

A community-driven, values-based vision towards enhancing WMS’s research culture

Authors

  • Kirstie Haywood Warwick Research in Nursing, Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5405-187X
  • Adele Kenny Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK.
  • Katie Geary Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK.
  • Helen Bates Health and Medical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i3.1538

Keywords:

enhancing research culture, community engagement, co-production, values-driven culture

Abstract

Understanding ‘what’ research culture means to members of Warwick Medical School’s (WMS) diverse community and how it can be enhanced is important to ensuring that all can flourish and deliver the best quality, world-leading research.​ Through active consultation and engagement with staff and students, we coproduced an action-focused WMS Enhancing Research Culture (ERC) Roadmap.

We hosted three (three-hour) semi-structured café-style conversations open to students and staff (both researchers and research enablers – that is, non-academic colleagues involved in the development and delivery of research). In Café 1, participants explored what ‘research culture’ meant to them. Cafés 2 and 3 built on these findings, exploring what could change, how, and when. A thematic analysis of findings was undertaken after each event, with findings shared and built on at each café. A five-year plan was crafted. The roadmap represents a community-driven, co-produced and values-driven understanding of the importance of a positive and inclusive research culture, which builds on existing initiatives and describes associated actions for change.

Funding Acknowledgement

The Rresearch Culture Cafés were funded by a University of Warwick Enhancing Research Culture Grant awarded 2022/2023.

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Author Biographies

  • Kirstie Haywood, Warwick Research in Nursing, Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK

    Professor (Health Outcomes), Deputy Pro-Dean People, Warwick Medical School, University of  Warwick, UK

  • Adele Kenny, Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK.

    Research Culture Officer, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK. 

  • Katie Geary, Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK.

    Post-graduate Research Student (Part-time), Warwick Applied Health, Warwick Medical School, University of  Warwick, UK.

  • Helen Bates, Health and Medical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK

    Undergraduate Student (Full-time: Health and Medical Sciences), Warwick Medical School, University of  Warwick, UK.

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Published

2024-08-08

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2024): Special Issue: Research Culture

Section

Critical Reflections

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Copyright (c) 2024 Kirstie Haywood, Adele Kenny, Katie Geary, Helen Bates

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