Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
As a Principal Investigator leading a research team, creating a positive research culture for your team members is one of the best long-term investments you can make, for your research programme, for the sector and for society. A positive research environment is one where team members are empowered,...
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| description | As a Principal Investigator leading a research team, creating a positive research culture for your team members is one of the best long-term investments you can make, for your research programme, for the sector and for society. A positive research environment is one where team members are empowered, recognised, have a clear career developmental pathway, can contribute to impactful and reproducible research and, ideally, propagate these effects. While these virtues can arise organically from a team built around kindness and integrity, they are also values that should be deliberately embedded within your lab. Here we provide advice on how to create a culture of integrity and a culture of belonging for your team members. We focus on thoughtful consideration of your key lab values, and the use of structure, language and your personal actions to make these values explicit. A holistic approach to integrating positive culture throughout every facet of your research team creates a system that can be self-sustaining in scientific integrity and more resilient to negative challenges. Starting on the pathway to self-improvement as a manager, recognising that this requires often uncomfortable self-reflection, provides both personal and professional reward. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-656c9a5abaff448ea3ed547822c35a922025-08-20T01:47:40ZengWellcomeWellcome Open Research2398-502X2024-10-01910.12688/wellcomeopenres.22492.225589Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]Adrian Liston0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6272-4085Denise C. Fitzgerald1Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, CB2 1QP, UKSchool of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 7BL, UKAs a Principal Investigator leading a research team, creating a positive research culture for your team members is one of the best long-term investments you can make, for your research programme, for the sector and for society. A positive research environment is one where team members are empowered, recognised, have a clear career developmental pathway, can contribute to impactful and reproducible research and, ideally, propagate these effects. While these virtues can arise organically from a team built around kindness and integrity, they are also values that should be deliberately embedded within your lab. Here we provide advice on how to create a culture of integrity and a culture of belonging for your team members. We focus on thoughtful consideration of your key lab values, and the use of structure, language and your personal actions to make these values explicit. A holistic approach to integrating positive culture throughout every facet of your research team creates a system that can be self-sustaining in scientific integrity and more resilient to negative challenges. Starting on the pathway to self-improvement as a manager, recognising that this requires often uncomfortable self-reflection, provides both personal and professional reward.https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341/v2research academia research cultureeng |
| spellingShingle | Adrian Liston Denise C. Fitzgerald Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] Wellcome Open Research research academia research culture eng |
| title | Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full | Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_short | Nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | nurturing a positive research culture within your laboratory version 2 peer review 2 approved |
| topic | research academia research culture eng |
| url | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-341/v2 |
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