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Industrial Research Fellowships and the Research Co-Culture podcast

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In our weekly Research Culture Uncovered conversations we are asking what is Research Culture and why does it matter?

This is actually a bonus episode but it does align with the aim of Season 5, where we are investigating the impact of impact on research culture. In this episode your host Ged is joined by Dr Lorna Daniels and Dr Shilpa Nagarajan.

Shilpa and Lorna are co-hosts of the Research Co-culture podcast . They are also both industry sponsored Post-doctoral Research Fellows at Oxford University. Shilpa has just finished her Fellowship and will be moving to a role as a Senior Scientist in a pharma company. Lorna will also soon be finishing her fellowship and will then take up a role as Senior Policy Advisor in the UK Government Office for Science (or GO-Science)

In this episode Ged discusses with Lorna and Shilpa the structure of their Fellowship programme and how industrial sponsorship plays its part. And of course what their podcast is all about. The key messages from the discussion are:

· Even though these fellowships are industry-sponsored, the fellow needs to be proactive in driving discussions around any potential impact within the company.

· In those discussions, initial contact is eased by having an industry mentor but you still have to convince others of about that potential impact..

· Their Fellowships have given them the chance to explore and collaborate beyond their niche expertise, which has opened up their next career steps; both of which they weren’t anticipating.

· Their podcast is a call to collaborate more fluidly across all sectors (academia, private sector, policy, etc) and for all those sectors to be more open-minded to collaboration. Season 1 is currently available with Season 2 starting in September 2023.

Shilpa and Lorna’s favourite episodes from season 1:

· Interview with Anne Clark on International Day of Women and Girls in Science

· Interview with Leanne Hodson on leading a lab

You can follow the Research Co-culture podcast on LinkedIn and they will be starting season 2 in September 2023.

You can follow Lorna on Twitter @LornaD90

You can follow Shilpa on Twitter @shilpainthelab

Research culture links:

Connect to us on LinkedIn: @ResearchUncoveredPodcast, @GedHall

Be sure to check out the other episodes to find out more.

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