Research culture is a hot topic of discussion, particularly after Wellcome published its report What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In. This highlighted the specific challenges in research culture that affect the research community. While there are commonalities between the challenges felt by researchers and those impacting technical staff, there is also a need to recognise that technical staff have certain research culture challenges that need addressing.
Technical staff are vital to higher education’s teaching and research, carrying out a diverse range of roles from setting up our undergraduate laboratories, through handling research data to ensuring our buildings are maintained for operation. These roles mean that technical staff are as equally impacted by cultures built up around research as those on the traditional research pathway.
