Developing Research Culture in your Organisation

ARC North Thames Academy

Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location: Online (Zoom)

Are you a health or social care professional, service manager, or researcher looking to strengthen research culture in your organisation?

Join us for this practical and inspiring webinar, where leaders from across health, social care, and community sectors will share strategies, real-world examples, and tools to help you create an environment where research can thrive and where everyone, at every level, can get involved.

What you’ll gain

This webinar will equip you with:

• A clear understanding of how to build and strengthen research culture within your organisation.

• Practical strategies to enable and support colleagues at all levels to engage with research.

• The confidence to advocate for protected time, resources, and opportunities for research activity.

• Insights into the opportunities and challenges of fostering research across health, social care, and community sectors.

• Real-world examples from organisations that have successfully embedded research as a core value.

Topics We’ll Cover

• Building Inclusive Research Cultures: What it means, why it matters, and how it can benefit staff, services, and communities.

• Making Strategic Change: Practical steps to develop research capacity and embed research as a core organisational value.

• Opportunities and Challenges: Exploring real-world barriers and enablers across different sectors.

• Cross-Sector Collaboration: How health, social care, and community organisations and academia can work together to strengthen research engagement.

• Real-World Examples: Case studies from organisations that have successfully created enabling environments for research participation.

Who Should Attend? This webinar is tailored for:

• Clinical and community service managers.

• Health and social care professionals interested in developing research ideas and careers.

• Anyone looking to grow research culture within their organisation.

Attendees will have the chance to:

• Better understand how to create and support a research-positive culture.

• Learn practical ways to enable colleagues to engage with research.

• Connect with leaders and peers across health, social care, and community sectors.

Meet Our Chair

Chair to be confirmed — details coming soon.

Our Inspiring Speakers

Our line-up will feature senior leaders from across health, social care, and community organisations, including:

• MH Trust Research Director

• Local Authority Research Director / Capacity Development Lead

• VCO Manager (social care, mental health, knowledge mobilisation)

Secure Your Spot Today!

Register now to secure your spot and take the first step towards creating meaningful impact in your field. We look forward to seeing you there!

For any enquiries, please contact us at arc.academy@ucl.ac.uk.