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Download fileCan we fix it? Are incremental tweaks to research practices, cultures & assessment sufficient, or is it time for more radical change?
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posted on 2022-05-25, 16:55 authored by James WilsdonThis is a copy of my presentation to the UKRIO Annual Conference on 25 May 2022. The overall conference theme was 'Good research practice: culture, environment and sustainability.’ My talk covered the following points:
1. The ‘cultural turn’ in UK research policy
2. Progress we’ve seen…
3. Paradoxes of the pandemic
4. The yawning chasm between rhetoric & lived reality – our new “valley of death”
5. A white, middle-class, able-bodied man in his late-40s losing patience in public
6. So yes, let’s talk about research cultures:
- Material cultures
- Cultures of honesty
- Cultures of experimentation
- Cultures of formative assessment
- Cultures of creative chaos