Workstream 3 provided spaces for people to talk about research culture and support for colleagues to improve the research culture for defined communities of researchers by:

• holding a research culture roadshow, popping up across the university’s different campuses to talk to people about I-REACCH and research culture;
• identifying barriers to inclusion within research environments and suggestions for improving research culture through a series of semi-structured workshops;
• hosting two Research Culture Takeover Weeks, bringing the community together to celebrate research and researchers, provide training, and support career development; · organising Disrupting the Default, an international conference on race, inclusion, and research culture which highlighted the excellent work being done across the sector; · funding 44 projects through our Inclusive Research Culture Fund, helping students and staff to address barriers to inclusion; · collaborating with Attenborough Arts Centre on Creative Engagement Fellowships – one held by Carol Pairaudeau who produced Researcher Journeys – New artwork highlights the diversity of researchers’ career paths;
• carrying out a PDD Pilot Study which investigated whether we should integrate additional questions on research culture into annual personal development discussions.

All of this work was collaborative by nature. Staff and students from across the University of Leicester, external collaborators and facilitators, and colleagues at other higher education institutions were instrumental in everything we delivered.