How do multilingual researchers experience the relationship between their languages and their research journey? If Universities took steps towards…

By Ros Attenborough (Evaluation Manager) and Anne Ploin (Community Knowledge Analyst), InFrame project, Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St Andrews. This blog article describes a creative me…

Posts about Pathfinder Professional Narratives written by Dr Kay Guccione and UofG-RCandRD-Team

By Dr Rhoda Stefanatos, Fellowships Development Manager, University of Glasgow, UK Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Research Fellowships have and will always be about people. They are mecha…

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By Sally Shirran, Mass Spectrometry Facility, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, UK; Susie Cook, Department of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, University of Edinburgh, UK; Lee …

This is a guest post by Dr Katrina McChesney, Deputy Head of the School of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and Co-Editor in Chief of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Educati…

Feedback has been spending far too much time reading the latest output of entirely made-up research studies from the Journal of Imaginary Research

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By Professor Liezel Massyn, University of the Free State, South Africa; Professor Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, University of Agder, Norway; and Professor Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, University West, Swe…

By Dr Rachel Herries, Research Culture Manager ‘Research Culture’ is a phrase that has come to represent and allude to so much. As the sector’s focus on research culture continues to shift, and evo…

Supervisor Development Reading Group – Dr Kay Guccione (University of Glasgow, UK), Dr Sian Vaughan (Birmingham City University, UK), Tasha Kitano (Queensland Univers...

REDS is a free, open, online conference designed to encourage and share research and scholarship within researcher education and development disciplines. The 2027 theme is ‘A whole ecosystem approa…

In this pack we offer you insight into how we have designed, advertised, and evaluated the successful Thesis Mentoring programme which began at the University of Sheffield in 2013 and now flourishes a

Dr Kay Guccione, Head of Research Culture and Researcher Development, with strong thanks to Dr Rhoda Stefanatos, Charlotte Bonner-Evans, Dr Joanna Royle, and Dr Rachel Herries in the Research Cultu…

Dr Kay Guccione, REDS Conference Director The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference is an annual, free, online, international conference focusing on the scholarship (ev…

Dr Kay Guccione, REDS Conference Director The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference is an annual, free, online, international conference focusing on the scholarship (ev…

By Dr Jeanne Boisselier, PhD, Researcher in social psychology at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary studies on the Doctorate (LID), Adoc Talent Management. This article draws on her Jeanne’s paper…

By Dr Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Manager, Procrastinating on social media this week, I watched two content creators: the first, in muted smart casuals, extolling the life-changing power o…

By Dr Tamarinde Haven, Assistant Professor in Research Methodology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Why do we need to think more carefully about rewarding supervisors? Researcher evaluation …

Posts about 2025 Proceedings: Getting creative: shaping a culture of development written by Dr Kay Guccione

Happy holidays! Here below are the top 5 most highly read Auditorium blog articles from 2025.

by Arianna Magyaricsova, PGR Intern and doctoral researcher in Archaeology The PGR Lived Experience Project, June – October 2025, was designed to listen to, value and better understand the li…

by Ashutosh Singh, Research Culture and Researcher Development Intern 2025-2026, funded by the Team UofG Together Fund and second-year PhD candidate in Sociology, researching intersectional inequal…

By Dr Qian Jiang, former PGR Intern and doctoral researcher in Education The PGR Lived Experience Project, June – October 2025, was designed to listen to, value and better understand the live…

By Dr Elizabeth Adams, Independent Coach and Research Culture Consultant at Scafell Coaching. In an earlier auditorium post, UofG Research Culture Manager Rachel Herries shared advice for Supe…

The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces for our annual volume produced each November to celebrate Global Academic Writing Month. We pu…

By Dr Alice Gibson, Independent Researcher In his study, Life in Classrooms(Jackson, 1968), Philip Jackson used the term the ‘hidden curriculum’ to refer to the unwritten rules and norms in educati…

Dr Sian Vaughan, Associate Professor in Research Practice, Birmingham City University In this post I consider how using the concept of a hidden curriculum in the doctorate (Elliot et al 2020) might…

This is a guest post by Dr Taryn Bell, Researcher Development Advisor for Careers and Fellowships, University of Leeds), Dr Anna Pilz, Research Development Manager, University of Edinburgh, and Dr …

By Fátima Sal, PGR Intern for Research Staff Events, and PhD candidate in International Law. As a first-year PhD student and intern with the Research Culture and Researcher Development Team, I have…

Dr Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Manager What work tasks are you just naturally not very good at? I’ll go first. My capacity for embedding factual errors in emails is legendary in my team. I…