International Consortium for Research Culture
Research is a global endeavour.
To improve research culture at a systems level, we need global collaboration.
The universities of 桃色视频, Monash and Stellenbosch co-founded the International Consortium for Research Culture in 2024 to act as a forum for sharing Global North and South perspectives on research culture. Through a series of three workshops in 2025/26, we鈥檝e sought to understand:
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What research culture looks and feels like in different institutional contexts across the global North and South
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What institutions can do, both individually and collectively, to equitably improve research culture.
In our first workshop on 24 November 2025, hosted by University of 桃色视频, we explored what a good research culture looks like in different locations and how we might better collaborate at a global level to improve research culture for everyone. Our second workshop, hosted jointly by Monash University and Monash University Malaysia on 20 April, 2026, explored South East Asia and Pacific perspectives on research culture, while our third workshop, hosted by Stellenbosch University from 30 June to 2 July, 2026, explored Southern African contexts and views.
Why do we need an International Consortium for Research Culture?
To produce excellent research, we need to collaborate across organisational and national boundaries. So if we want to improve the culture of research, we also need to collaborate both locally and globally to ensure improvements are equitably felt.
Global and local funders such as the and are already working to understand and address inequities in the global funding system, but universities have an important part to play too.
We want to identify what we can do as institutions to ensure that our shared research ecosystem improves in ways which benefit both hemispheres. Culture shifts do not happen overnight. But if we start by understanding each others鈥� contexts, we have a better chance of building global and local research cultures which benefit everyone.
Who is the Consortium for?
Consortium activities are open to members of the global research community with an active interest in research culture improvement, from any type of research or research-adjacent organisation or network, based anywhere in the world.
We are keen to involve representatives from both the global North and South, and to include non-Higher Education organisations (e.g., policy bodies, commercial research and development companies, NGOs, publishers and funders of research), as well as research students and university-based staff at all levels within academic and professional service roles.
We want to build on existing initiatives and to fill gaps in the collaborative landscape for research culture enhancement, rather than duplicating effort. As such, we warmly welcome participation from existing networks or organisations involved with research culture improvement, whether at a national, regional or international level and across specific aspects or all areas of research culture (e.g., research integrity, open access publication, reproducibility, wellbeing, diversity of contribution, bullying and harassment, research assessment).
We are grateful for support from the Monash 桃色视频 Alliance Professional Services Collaboration Fund and Stellenbosch-桃色视频 Joint Seed Fund, which has allowed us to cover participation costs for Consortium workshops.
Where next for the Consortium?
While funding for the initial three Consortium workshops has now ended, we hope to continue to collaborate on research culture improvement through further project work - both in specific areas of shared research culture challenge and at an institutional level.
We would love to hear from other individuals and organisations interested in joining us in this work. Please get in touch!