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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Nothing like seeing Lindisfarne from the train on a sunny day! If only the train was moving… Hopefully we get skates on, and I’m not late for the @wellcometrust.bsky.social regional meeting bringing colleagues working on their funded #ResearchCulture projects together - looking forward to it!

A picture of the island of Lindisfarne in the distance, with green fields in the foreground and blue sky overhead.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thanks to colleagues from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about the work that the #ResearchCulture team at @newcastleuni.bsky.social have been doing to evaluate and track change in culture. Great talks and lots to reflect on! #REF2029PCE

Blue title slide with talk title on, Evaluating research culture - UK university perspective

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Arrived in Manchester for our first People, Culture and Environment (PCE) assessment panel meeting tomorrow - looking forward to meeting colleagues from across the UK and our discussions about evaluating #ResearchCulture for #REF2029. #BackToWork #HolidayOver

Glassy tower blocks reflecting a grey Manchester sky.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A week of leave starts tomorrow with these little beauties…. Getting #AllotmentReady #GoodToGrow

Lots of pots with small tomato plants in.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Some lunches are just made better than others…. #HappyLunch #HungryAlready

A colourful and delicious looking salad lunchbox, with breaded chicken, avocado and edible flowers

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

At @advancehe.bsky.social #EDIConf2025 listening to Prof Nicola Rollock, author of #TheRacialCode delivering a provocation about whether we view the current geopolitical challenges around #EDI as an oddity, or part of a continuation of injustice and oppression that continues to operate? #ThankYou

Cover of Professor Nicola Rollock’s book, The Racial Code

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

At the end of the first day of the @advancehe.bsky.social #EDI Conference, lots of thoughts and reflections and, of course, as always, lots of questions! Thanks to everyone who presented today-looking forward to tomorrow… #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion #StayCurious

Slide showing a mountain meadow landscape with the text-Any questions?

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Great talk from Dulini Fernando @astonuniversity.bsky.social who has left us with an excellent provocation, especially for those of us in leadership positions. Lots to reflect on at @ukri.org #BBSRC Connecting #ResearchCulture Conference @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Picture of a slide on ‘the dark side of diversity and inclusion, with the provocation: does the organisation make changes to fundamental assumptions and practices to better accommodate individuals from the margins, or use EDI to camouflage longstanding inequalities and/or implicitly encourage employees to conform to the dominant mould?

Slide asking, How do we move forward? Solutions highlight strengthening professional voice via networks, valuing constructively critical voices, reflexivity and learning, and allyship.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Connecting with #ResearchCulture colleagues and #EDI champions from across BBSRC Institutes (and beyond) at their first Research Culture Conference hosted at @earlhaminst.bsky.social. Learning lots, and feeling inspired to get going again on this platform and make more connections myself!

An image of a conference booklet for Connecting Research Culture Conference

Selfie of Liz Simmonds, Tim Newton and Candy Rowe at the conference

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Coffee break in our discipline-specific #ResearchIntegrity training to researchers in our Biosciences Institute by colleagues from @babrahaminst.bsky.social emerging from a @ukri.org BBSRC-funded CONNECT project. Great to be #WorkingTogether and #LearningTogether to build #ResearchCulture.

Image of slide with a coffee cup and logs of Newcastle University and Babraham institute.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Some clouds are just better than others. #AmazingSkies

Morning sky with pink-tinged circular cloud formation.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Despite best efforts to get timing right, Christmas candle still burning down with 10 mins to go… Enjoy the festive holidays-back in the New Year! #HappyChristmas

Candle burning-it is a candle that counts down to Christmas, and has the numbers 23 and 24 still remaining.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Yay! In our #ResearchRetreat today and tomorrow. No meetings. Away from the office. A time to think, research and write with a group of great colleagues. And a chocolate bear if I reach my goal for the day… #ReleasingQualityTime

A desk by a window with a laptop and a coffee on, with a small chocolate bear on the windowsill.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sometimes, you need to slow down in order to speed up. It can be difficult to know exactly when, but I’m learning that when something’s not feeling quite right, it’s better to stop and discuss with people, find a shared sense of purpose, and move on more energised. #MyLifeInPostIts #AlwaysLearning

A yellow post it with ‘slow down to speed up’ handwritten on it

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New book just out and looks like it’s going to be an interesting holiday read. Builds on Schein’s (and other’s) work on #OrganisationalCulture and already making me think about culture change from a different perspective…. #ResearchCulture

Front cover of a book-The Way We Talk Around Here

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Still reflecting on conversations we had yesterday about #AcademicLeadership with colleagues from across @newcastleuni.bsky.social - one of our first meetings as a Participatory Action Research Group for our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project, #ReimaginingLeadership. Watch this space!

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It’s our last #ResearchCultureCafé of the year today. Come along and meet members of the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Research Culture Team and hear about the support that’s available to help you make your research more open-all welcome! Boiler House 11.00am-12.30pm #OpenData #OpenResearch #OpenAccess

Visual flyer with research culture cafe written on

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#HappilyCreative - thanks to colleagues at #TeamsBuildDreams for the inspiration, and everyone at the @ukri.org #FLFNetwork meeting for creating the buzz….

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Next up is what is being billed as a ‘crazy workshop’ - if you know me and my fondness of post-it’s, you will easily imagine how I’m feeling right now… 😍😍😍

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Sounds great @jeminanapier.bsky.social - agree it’s a really important topic, and you might be interested in a recent project by colleagues @newcastleuni.bsky.social - ‘Failing Forward’? You can find out more here: from.ncl.ac.uk/how-do-we-de....

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

First talk of the day at Understanding Inclusive Leadership by #EnvironLaura and #ImmunoLaura from @carersinstemm.bsky.social - find out more about the challenges researcher parents face in their recent paper in #NatureCareers and what we can do about it - impactful work. #ResearchCulture

The name of the paper they wrote in Nature Careers. “Researcher parents are paying high price for conference travel-here’s how to fix it”

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hugely excited to be here in Leeds with colleagues from our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded #ResearchCulture project, #ReimaginingLeadership - thanks @sarashinton.bsky.social for inviting us to speak at Understanding #InclusiveLeadership today. We’re really looking forward to all the learning!

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Not sure whether I’m most excited to have discovered Bluesky or that it’s snowing! I’m obviously looking forward to linking up and finding new communities for #ResearchCulture (and all the thinking, learning and discovery that’ll come from that), but I think I gotta start with snow 🥳 #OneSmallStep…

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