Research culture and environment

Support and guidance to ensure research and innovation happens with a positive impact on all those involved.

Building better research cultures together

Research culture and environment is the way that we collaborate, communicate, and interact with each other; it is the behaviours, attitudes, and values that shape how our research is developed, conducted, and used; and it is the mechanisms by which we recognise and reward our work. 

We all have an essential role in this – the University through its support and development of our research community and you through your commitment to a conscientious, considerate way of working.  

Facilitating a research culture that is creative, collegial and collaborative has been built into the themes of Our Future Research and Discovery strategic plan, our Statement of Research Contribution Expectations and in our academic and research promotions criteria.

Our research culture themes, which build on Vitae’s Research Culture Framework, are explored in the boxes below.

The images used to highlight our Research Culture themes were submitted by UoM Postgraduate Researchers as part of the ‘Images of Research’ competition, which forms part of our annual PGR Showcase. These images authentically demonstrate the real-world outcomes of our university’s research culture. You can find more at Research culture and environment themes – Images of Research.

Developing our researchers with training and support at all career stages, building capabilities for successful academic and industrial career paths.

Supporting our researchers to produce work that is open, reproducible and robust, and has a positive impact on our communities and beyond.

Enabling our researchers to produce work of the highest quality in its rigour, integrity, sustainability and creativity.

Mobilising and deepening collaborations across the University, to spark new ideas and deliver new solutions and applications.