Exciting News for Research Culture Uncovered!

We are delighted to announce that the Research Culture Uncovered podcast has been shortlisted for Vitae's Research Culture Impact through Researcher Development Award!

As we await the award ceremony on 23 September, we wanted to look back on our progress and the incredible community that has helped us get here. All the team are included on this short episode including Nick, who recorded his bit up a mountain, and Katie, our content manager, making her debut!

Key Takeaways:

• Since our launch on 27 October 2022, we've released 81 episodes with over 8,500 unique downloads.
• Our podcast has reached 5,000 listeners across 81 countries, with top listener bases in the UK, US, Australia, and Germany.
• We owe our success to our brilliant guests and dedicated listeners who are committed to driving worldwide improvements in research culture.
• A huge thank you to our podcast coach, Michael Sharkey, for guiding us from idea to reality.
• And to all our guests and listeners -we couldn’t have done it without you!

We will let you know if we win - fingers crossed!!

All of our episodes can be accessed via the following playlists:

• Research Impact with Ged Hall (follow Ged on Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Open Research with Nick Sheppard (follow Nick on Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Research Careers with Ruth Winden (follow Ruth on Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Research talent management with Tony Bromley (follow Tony on Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Meet the Research Culturositists with Emma Spary (follow Emma on Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Research co-production
• Research Leadership
• Research Evaluation

Follow us on twitter: @ResDevLeeds (new episodes are announced here), @OpenResLeeds, @ResCultureLeeds 

Connect to us or leave us a review on LinkedIn: @ResearchUncoveredPodcast (new episodes are announced here)

Leeds Research Culture links:

• Researcher Development and Culture Website
• Our Concordat Implementation plans and progress
• University of Leeds Research Culture Statement
• University of Leeds Responsible Metrics Statement
• University of Leeds Open Research Statement
• University of Leeds Research Culture Strategy - launched September 2023

Emma Spary:

We, Emma, Ged, Ruth, Nick, Taryn, Tony and Katie are delighted to announce that the Research Culture Uncovered podcast has been shortlisted for Vitae's Research Culture Impact through Researcher Development Award. This is one of the four awards that make up the annual Vitae Impact, Culture and Engagement awards. Fingers crossed for the award ceremony on the 23 September.

Ged Hall:

The Research Culture Uncovered

Ged Hall:

Podcast team believes that creating a better research culture is an urgent worldwide need. To play our part in delivering that, we have sought to engage with the research and researcher development communities to share successes and challenges in driving a positive research culture change. In this open forum, our aim has been to move beyond debate towards practical steps and the sharing of best practices.

Ruth Winden:

Creating the podcast has been a huge learning curve for all the team and we really want to thank our podcast coach, the wonderful Michael Sharkey, for getting us from idea to reality. Without him, we would have suffered the fate of most podcasts running out of steam within three months.

Nick Sheppard:

But since launching our first episode on the 27 October 2022, we've released 81 episodes with 8500 unique downloads. We've reached 5000 listeners across 81 countries, with our top listener bases being the UK, the US, Australia and Germany. We also have nearly 1100 LinkedIn followers.

Taryn Bell:

Which brings us to the two groups of people who are really driving that worldwide improvement in research culture, our guests and listeners. The podcast team can't create that better future alone, and we thank you for being on the journey with us, for showing us the way forward, and for being brave enough to change things.

Tony Bromley:

On our LinkedIn page, we've listed all our guests. We've loved chatting to you and have learned so much from you. Unfortunately, we can't list all our listeners, but we value all of you.

Katie Jones:

The Research Culture Uncovered podcast wouldn't be what it is and wouldn't have been shortlisted for this award without you, our guests and our listeners. So thank you to you all.