This is the latest in the series of regular free webinars from the UK Research Integrity Office on research integrity and related issues.
What does a ‘good’ research culture look like? This event will explore how research culture could be measured in a way that supports ongoing improvement, without imposing burdens or bureaucracy. Speakers will explore how this might be implemented throughout the research community, to help organisations feel more confident that their research systems, policies, environment and culture promote high quality and ethical research.
Speakers
Dr Elizabeth Gadd, Loughborough University, INORMS REG, CoARA
Dr Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gadd is Head of Research Culture & Assessment at Loughborough University. She chairs the International Network Of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group and is a Vice Chair of the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). She co-authored the UKRI-commissioned report, ‘Harnessing the Metric Tide: Indicators, Infrastructures & Priorities for UK Research Assessment’. Lizzie champions the ARMA Research Evaluation SIG, founded the LIS-Bibliometrics Forum and The Bibliomagician Blog and was the recipient of the 2020 INORMS Award for Excellence in Research Management and Leadership.
Professor Catherine Davies, University of Leeds
As the University of Leeds’ Dean for Research Culture, Professor Catherine Davies leads the University’s strategy to achieve a collegiate, diverse, and ambitious research culture. She sits on several internal and external research committees, steering projects in open research, responsible metrics, and research EDI.
Professor Davies received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011, focusing on how children learn to produce and understand names for objects. After a postdoc at the University of Kent, she joined the University of Leeds and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. She became Professor of Language Development in 2022.
Her research interests are in first language development, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. She uses experimental data to investigate pragmatic development, i.e. how children understand and produce meaning beyond vocabulary and grammar. She is currently focusing on the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on child development.
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