Can we fix it? Are incremental tweaks to research practices, cultures & assessment sufficient, or is it time for more radical change?

<p>This 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: </p> <p>1. The ‘cultural turn’ in UK research policy</p> <p>2. Progress we’ve seen…</p> <p>3. Paradoxes of the pandemic </p> <p>4. The yawning chasm between rhetoric & lived reality – our new “valley of death”</p> <p>5. A white, middle-class, able-bodied man in his late-40s losing patience in public </p> <p>6. So yes, let’s talk about research cultures:</p> <ul> <li>Material cultures</li> <li>Cultures of honesty</li> <li>Cultures of experimentation</li> <li>Cultures of formative assessment</li> <li>Cultures of creative chaos</li> </ul>