Changing expectations is a Royal Society project that aims to understand how best to steward research culture through a shifting research landscape. Through a national dialogue with the research community, by drawing on the experiences of our past and present, and exploring potential futures, Changing expectations investigates the evolving relationship between the research community and the wider research system.
Activities
- The career case studies aim to inspire researchers to think differently about what success looks like today and to challenge ideas about what skills and achievements should be valued
- A series of innovative and thought-provoking Visions of 2035 workshops engaged individuals from across the research ecosystem. Participants from across academia, industry and government came together to imagine an ideal research culture of the future, and how this might be achieved, using the Museum of Extraordinary Objects and speculative scenarios. To widen participation in this conversation, the materials for running your own Visions of 2035 workshop are now being made open access. Read more about getting involved in our blog post
- Insights from over 20 of these workshops, and other conversations with the research community have now been published in Research culture: embedding inclusive excellence. This document will be the foundation upon which the Research culture programme continues to be built
- TEDxWhitehall 2018 brought together over 180 researchers, civil servants, policy makers, and others from 47 individual institutions for a series of talks, performances and videos on the theme of Changing Expectations
- Forthcoming projects include:
Integrity in Practice: a series of case studies featuring positive interventions that can be made to improve research culture and integrity. This project is being run in collaboration with UKRIO
The Collaboration Collection: a series of historical and contemporary case studies focused on collaborations and the conditions that led to their success