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Candy Rowe

@candyrowe.bsky.social
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Researcher in animal behaviour, cognition and welfare, and Dean for Research Culture and Strategy at Newcastle University. Views my own. She/her.

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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Happy birthday @drsarahwhalley.bsky.social! Looks like a good haul! Hope you’ve had a great day. 🥳
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
THAT’s exciting! Can’t wait to see/hear it!
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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 · 09/04/2025
First article co-authored with @annettebramley.bsky.social published today in @timeshighered.bsky.social - Five Top Tips to help you lead change in research culture. Hopefully it’s helpful, or maybe you’ve got more tips to add…? #ResearchCulture www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/five-...
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Five ways to start leading research culture change
If you’re concerned that research culture is valuing output over well-being, or prioritising prestige over passion, these tips could help you move towards more supportive and collaborative labs and de...
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Today, with @annettebramley.bsky.social, we publish our #FiveTopTips for building a more positive #ResearchCulture - take a look - maybe it could help you lead change where you are? #CultureChange #Inclusion #WorkingTogether @timeshighered.bsky.social
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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
#EDIConf2025 - slowing getting back into the saddle with my social media…
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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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🦋 Conny Zelic 🦋 @connyzelic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here is an interesting article by Newcastle University about the components that are needed to create a ‘thinking environment’ where the very best quality thinking happens - click here to watch the video! from.ncl.ac.uk/how-do-we-cr...
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How do we create environments where people can do their best thinking?
In a distracted world, how can we make time to think? Professor Peter Hopkins reflects on work at Newcastle University to create space for deeper thinking.
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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 ConferenceSelfie of Liz Simmonds, Tim Newton and Candy Rowe at the conference
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Not been to Sri Lanka but have done self-drive in Namibia and it was amazing-lots to see beyond desert. To be fair, both sound better than a week in the UK…
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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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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Opinion: ‘Destigmatise efforts to uphold research integrity’. Focus on systems and culture rather than individual wrongdoing, say Simon Kolstoe and Stephanie Neave. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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‘Destigmatise efforts to uphold research integrity’ - Research Professional News
Focus on systems and culture rather than individual wrongdoing, say Simon Kolstoe and Stephanie Neave
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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 · 16/12/2024
Does this mean you’ve had a last gasp of success for 2024?!?
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
👏👏👏
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Join Rachel Kendal on Dec 18 to explore how how the CES Transformation Fund advances EDI in grant applications. Key measures include: 📝 Anonymized reviews 📝 Two-stage application process 📝 Diversity scoring & review panels Register here: researchonresearch.org/afire-funder...
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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
Whoop whoop! Great winner!
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025 Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for: ✅ Virtual symposia ✅ In-person panels ✅ Talks & posters ⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025 🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
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Call for Proposals - Metascience
The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.
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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 · 12/12/2024
In case you don’t know about Chris Harrison’s amazing work @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social on making data more accessible through sonification..”his work exemplifies how aiming for inclusivity and accessibility of science goes hand in hand with expanding our horizons, rather than confining them” #UKRIFLF
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Loud. Wow.
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
❤️ Love this, and great to see the impact being made from projects supported by our Enhancing #ResearchCulture Fund @newcastleuni.bsky.social Please share! #ThinkingEnvironment #PGRLife
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
👏👏👏 (I’ve so missed this world)(now @kirstyweasel.bsky.social you need to explain to me what #taskmasterlive is-though whatever it is, I know I’m going to be proud of you too 😉)
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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀 You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com #EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference @ehbea.bsky.social
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Home | EHBEA2025
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Annette @annettebramley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today's #N8researchculture blog is from University of York: www.n8research.org.uk/dr-david-ken...
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Dr David Kent: The product of a PhD should be the person, not just the data - N8 Research Partnership
N8 recently had the privilege of interviewing David Kent, a Professor in Stem Cell Biology at the University of York, to gain insights into what it takes to cultivate a healthy research culture.
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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… 😍😍😍
Creative materials
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Amazing perspectives and insights on #InclusiveLeadership from the @ukri.org #FLFNetwork today-thanks to everyone for their openness and honesty. Lots to think about too in the context of our own @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project @newcastleuni.bsky.social - #ReimagingLeadership
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Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
CALL FOR BOOK CONTENT! Understanding Research Culture Through the Hidden Curriculum 🥳 HC Book 3, focuses on new ideas for how the Hidden Curriculum is linked to different aspects and conceptualisations of ‘research culture’! Full call: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/c...
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Call for contributions to the blog: understanding research culture through the Hidden Curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum team are now preparing to collaborate on Book 3! Our third collective work focuses on thinking about how the Hidden Curriculum is linked to different aspects and conceptualisa…
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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
Happy to retweet this one @annettebramley.bsky.social - keep an eye on @n8research.bsky.social as there’s more to come in this blog series on #ResearchCulture
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N8 Research Partnership @n8research.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Welcome to the new N8 blog series, where we talk to successful researchers from a range of universities about what it takes to create a healthy research culture. Check in on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for new insights! #N8ResearchCulture
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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!
Rainbow over skyline in Leeds
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You too! Just catching up on everyone’s news… Almost like we never away.. :)
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Looks like we joined almost at the same time-nice to see ya!
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You too-hope all’s well with you!! Missed being tuned in to what you’re up to and looking forward to your ‘skeets’ (are we using this word??) #NewHere #JustLearning
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Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
And thanks @viveknityananda.bsky.social for introducing me to Bluesky! Was everyone else hoping I wouldn’t find it?!? 😉
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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…
Footprint in the snow
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