Enhancing Research Culture projects 2024-2025

For 2024-2025, six projects from across the University shared £60, 953 of Enhancing Research Cultures funding from Research England, provided to LJMU to develop and initiate activities to ensure the research system is made of talented and diverse skills, working in an environment that nurtures and empowers everyone to do their best.

Academic and professional staff were invited to submit applications by open call. The following projects were selected for funding:

Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies

Arts and Communication Development Days

Team: Pete Millward, Rachel McLean

Summary: To develop a fractional Visiting Research Fellow position in the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion to provide research mentorship to Early Career staff.

Cohesive Justice Culture

Team: Emma Murray

Summary: To hold events in the School of Justice Studies with external partners and research users to identify how research culture can connect beyond the University across the justice and social policy spheres.

Hilbre Island Researchers’ Network

Team: Dominic Wilkinson

Summary: Establish a place-based Hilbre Island research network that connects existing research across LJMU’s faculties and develops opportunities for new interdisciplinary work.

Trailblazer Initiative

Team: Chris Vaughan

Summary: Facilitate APSS early-career researchers to join the Trailblazer Initiative (Liverpool University Press) for development and mentoring toward publishing research monographs.

Faculty of Health

Improving access to, and participation in, research from under-represented groups: developing Public and Patient co-ordination activities.

Team: Cathy Montgomery

Summary: Developing the Institute for Health Research’s Public and Patient Involvement Co-ordinator role.

Faculty of Science

Open Research Skills for Data and Coding

Team: Suzanne Zajitschek

Summary: A series of linked workshops on best practices in collaborative, reproducible, and open research focused on data and code-sharing skills for staff and postgraduate researchers.