Realising Our Potential: Backing Talent and Strengthening UK Research Culture and Environment - Event recording

14 May 2021

The Russell Group's online event, held to launch the Realising Our Potential: Backing Talent and Strengthening UK Research Culture and Environment report, has an introduction and welcome from the Chair, Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group, followed by a short opening speech from Amanda Solloway MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Research and Innovation.

The recording then contains a brief summary of the report from Professor Colette Fagan (University of Manchester) before an expert panel discussion and Q&A with the audience.

The panelists are Professor Fagan, Dr Karen Salt (UKRI), Dr Lesley Thompson (Elsevier), and Professor Emma Flynn (Queen's University Belfast).

Slides from the presentation are available: 

You can also read a transcript of the event here:

The Russell Group report Realising Our Potential: Backing Talent and Strengthening UK Reseach Culture and Environment discusses challenges and highlights examples of good practice across three key themes: supporting research careers, the experience of working in research and inclusive and respectful environments.

It draws on conversations and interviews with more than 90 people across the UK research ecosystem, including senior research managers, publishers, funders, and early career researchers. The insights they provided have allowed us to develop a Research Culture and Environment Toolkit, which we hope will be used to share practical ideas and mutual learning across the research system to drive positive change and make the UK the best place in the world to do research.

All the materials including the report, toolkit and case study examples are available here.

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