• A bit about yourself: you may want to include your name, pronouns, role, and a photo. Feel free to share a fun or boring fact about yourself!

• Are you based at Edinburgh, Glasgow or St. Andrews?

• Your contact details

• Feel free to include the interests, time, skills or expertise you'd like to contribute!

• Your idea or area of interest can be at any stage of development: share what you feel like sharing!

• Let us know: what kind of connection or collaboration are you seeking?

• You may be interested in inclusive research cultures and fostering collegial leadership, but you're not sure if you can get involved with the Culture Catalyst Fund yet.

Please behave respectfully and generously, treating others as you would wish to be treated - in line with the inclusive and collegial cultures we seek to uphold.

If you are looking for a team member with this background/skill set, please feel free to get in touch with me, and I would be happy to provide more detail as required.

Email: Ina.Lindsay@ed.ac.uk

--writing, editing and comms (if you're looking for someone to write up or edit some components of the project, I'm typically a confident and speedy writer)

--coaching: I'm an ICF certified coach, and could offer a mini "coaching conversation" for getting unstuck, thinking through project aspects, or reflecting. https://coachingfederation.org/about

--Leveraging the value and impact of your project in CVs, cover letters, and interviews. I have experience providing 1-1 careers support and could potentially offer support with project team members describing their project contributions to support their own career development

Feel free to reach out at danielle.barkley@glasgow.ac.uk

email: amit.kanekal@ed.ac.uk

Our first idea is around the reasons why some people still don't share data or work openly, despite there being (many) policies in place, with training, support and infrastructure available. We would like to see something done to really delve into the reasons why people don't share, and debunk any myths that still persist (fear of being scooped, thinking that it's a lot of work for no return, too difficult to achieve etc). This might result in a set of case-studies conducted in the three participating insitutions showing why working openly is beneficial, across a range of different research areas and practices.

We are interested in getting some work done around data availability statements. Only c40% of research papers contain data availability statements (DAS).  The quality of the statements vary. 

Could there be a programme of work to support individual authors when drafting their papers to ensure that valid DAS are captured. Possibly through college/schools or a pilot thereof?

We could also leverage the reports that we have and improve upon them exploring standardisation across the 3 organisations . 

Open Research Scotland - Develop this organisation as a joined up Scottish platform for researchers and administators.

Copyright - Third party copyright in particular is often confusing.  Could we have some leadership and run some events/provide a service across the 3 organisations? Possibly involve CREATe at UofGlasgow.

I'm an inclusive research and EDI specialist at the School of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Glasgow. I have been piloting a small-scale project which works to co-create a framework for inclusive leadership in biosciences but I'd like to expand this to different disciplines and universities as part of this call. If you're interested in acting as a 'host' for your institution and to help me run trans-disciplinary co-creation sessions over the course of the funding, please email at me at emilymay.armstrong@glasgow.ac.uk

We are looking for collaborators and partners across all three Universities, to help us develop our project to empower research leaders to promote a positive research and collegial environment through lab handbooks.  
 
Lab handbooks provide an excellent opportunity to catalogue the roles and responsibilities of those working in both wet and dry lab research environments.  Detailing the expected behaviors and group culture can promote collegiality, good research practice and a positive research culture. 
 
Our project aims to promote the adoption of lab handbooks and assess their impact. We aim to do this by developing a workshop, generating supportive material, and analysing the impact of lab handbooks on group culture.  
 
We we will work with an external partner to develop a "train the trainer" style workshop to empower members of the research community to lead on lab handbooks implementation in their local areas. 

 
We seek enthusiastic individuals across the three Universities who would like to increase their training skillset by attending this planned workshop and deliver local training to their networks to help increase the reach of this project.