Approaching Research Culture in the Arts and Humanities looks to engage a wide network of internal and external arts and humanities stakeholders to gain a detailed, nuanced understanding of research culture from an arts and humanities perspective.
The project explores priorities and opportunities, as well as similarities and differences to STEM-led approaches, offering insights into wider sector debates.
The project consists of two parts:
- a research culture scoping exercise, and;
- a series of activities and training initiatives that support colleagues in practice
Ambitions
- to foster an inclusive, supportive and forward-looking research environment for researchers and research enabling staff at all career stages, through an arts and humanities viewpoint;
- to understand the collegiate University's distinctive contributions to arts and humanities research culture as part of the HE sector, establishing lasting and meaningful collaborations;
- to raise awareness about the implications of research culture through practical applications.
Methodology
The project aims to capture exiting research culture initiatives and practices through a mixed-method approach across the arts and humanities and examine wider cognate initiatives across the UK HEI sector.
The team will work closely with the University Research Culture Team, School of Arts and Humanities Research Strategy Group and collaboration with colleagues in the School of Humanities and Social Science.
Project Outputs
The overall output of the scoping exercise is to collate, interpret and present a details overview (or 'compendium') of arts and humanities research culture from a Cambridge perspective, which:
- explores internal / external connected initiatives;
- proposes key priorities for Cambridge to feed into both University and national dialogue.
Further upcoming events:
- Research Culture Consortium (April 2026)
- Researcher Research-Retreat (October 2026)
