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(S4E5) A Career Built on Collaboration - Warren Beardall in conversation with Ruth Winden
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In our weekly Research Culture Uncovered conversations we are asking what is Research Culture and why does it matter? This episode is part of Season 4, which focuses on Researcher Careers.
Ruth Winden, the Careers with Research Consultant at the University of Leeds, is your host for this season.
Today, I am speaking with Warren Beardall, a researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. Warren has focused his entire career on building strong, trusted and effective collaborations to achieve successful large scale public sector infrastructure programmes, often with a 30 year lifespan.
To add to his lived experience of risk, finance, and project management, Warren recently added two Masters' programmes to his expertise, one in project management and one in human behaviour. Now he brings both aspects of his research and his professional experience to his PhD research, fully funded by EPSRC.
Our focus today is on working well together, in a research environment.
We talk a lot about collaboration in research. The term has become a real buzz word.
Everyone does it.
Everyone assumes we know how to do it.
But when do we actually discuss - and even agree on - what a good collaboration looks like?
- Why is a good collaboration essential to research?
- Why is it such a skill, if not an art?
- And why is having conflict in collaborations normal, and even a necessary part of working together?
See what Warren has to say - his interdisciplinary look at collaboration certainly gives him a rare perspective. And of course, we also talk about careers. How a research career can open doors, why you don't always have to have a firm career plan, and why it is never too late in life to add your voice and perspective to a research community.
If you want to connect with Warren Beardall and learn more about his thought leadership, here is a link to Warren's fascinating blog projectswithinprojects blog and LinkedIn profile.
Be sure to check out the other episodes in this season to find out more about Research Culture, Open Research, Postgraduate Researchers, and Research Impact.
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