Four things no-one wants to admit about research culture | Wonkhe

"When you look at the top three research culture issues facing most institutions, they are usually time, time, and time. Time to actually do research at all, time to do research well (to supervise well; to adhere to the best open and ethical practices, and so on. And time to lead well: to give people the time of day and make people-centred decisions....

There is also plenty that individual institutions can’t fix on their own.

I’m talking the publish-or-perish culture which ultimately has its roots in publication-centric university rankings; the job precarity caused by short-term competitive grant funding; the gender and ethnicity-based inequalities which are prevalent in society at large; and of course the never-ending need to do more with less due to the financial starvation of the HE sector which, in England, is largely the result of the frozen student fee-cap...."