What first comes to mind when you hear the words research culture? For me, it’s behaviours. How we talk to one another, encourage and support each other. How we treat people. I’d like to start a conversation about our research culture – what it means to us all, how we already support it here at Manchester and how we’re going to develop it further.
It is hard to find superlatives to describe the past few weeks. The COVID-19 emergency is an historic event and one has to go back exactly a century to the ‘flu pandemic post World War I to see anything like this on a global scale.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are principles and values that many of us hold dear. We believe that we act in ways that foster their delivery and that achieving them makes our lives, and our University, a better place. But the reality of our position is different. We have very substantial under-representation of several groups across our staff base. Does this matter?
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