We are pursuing a highly ambitious scientific goal, but we know that research excellence can only be achieved if we take care of our staff and students.
Positive and inclusive research environments are essential for fostering the integrity, creativity, and innovation that underpin scientific progress.
Our unique position across three world-class institutions allows us to tap into distinct institutional strengths and practices in research culture – sharing, combining and amplifying them within REACT.
To build and sustain a positive research culture we focus on:
demonstrating committed leadership in development and sharing of best practice in research culture, with benefits beyond the centre into our wider institutions,
delivering and demonstrating best-practice support for career development across all REACT staff and students, investing in the next generation of researchers in advanced cardiac therapies and all the staff who support our work,
overcoming inequalities of access, experience and outcomes, ensuring everyone is able to thrive within the centre,
establishing ‘team science’ to build collaborative networks,
ensuring working environments and infrastructure that facilitates our research culture and collaboration,
prioritising ethical and mutually-beneficial public and patient involvement and engagement,
supporting implementation of best research practice and open research,
ensuring centre-wide reward systems are fair and transparent.
You can read more about our early plans to support career development, equity, diversity and inclusion and co-create a code of conduct to shape our ways of working on their respective pages.
Our leadership team is committed to our research culture vision, backing it with dedicated resources including a Research Culture and EDI Lead, a tailored Research Culture Manager role, and active contributions from all partner organisations.
