After 20+ years in research I’m still experiencing hidden practices — from the unspoken, to the concealed. New hidden curriculum post where Dr Alice Gibson shares her experiences of bringing the researcher community together to surface what is hidden. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/t...

Does getting through ethical review in a creative practice discipline present a hidden curriculum? @sianvaughan.bsky.social shows us how it represents at least two... drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/t...

What can researchers and research teams do to be more failure-friendly? Just ask our guest bloggers Johanna Stadlbauer, Anna Pilz and Taryn Bell! theauditorium.blog/2025/09/01/w...

The Glasgow Way stage 1/12: George Square to Possilpark via Port Dundas, Spiers Wharf, Clay Pits, Firhill, Ruchill, Maryhill, Lambhill. (+5k home). The Glasgow Way is a 106-mile walking route within the Glasgow City Council area. theglasgowway.substack.com/about

Our PhD Intern Fátima Sal has some important words for us all on slowing down — taking them in might be the antidote to a Monday morning we are all looking for. theauditorium.blog/2025/08/25/s...

Interesting! One question we’ll be asking about Glasgow’s ‘People Make Research’ project. is whether being nominated increases subsequent inclination to nominate others. — RE: bsky.app/profile/kayg... #ResearchCulture

Who’s out here comparing Meredith Belbin to A. A. Milne? It could only be the inimitable Joanna Royle! Read more for the who’s who! theauditorium.blog/2025/08/19/k...

Fantastic new contribution to the hidden curriculum and research culture series by Adira Daniel— on methodological learning and making methodological choices. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/t...

Out for my shift as Ruchill parkrun Director this morning. The addition of a tiny hop-on-hop-off dancefloor went down a treat and added to my mileage!

Research culture is a matter of perception and mental and emotional processing, as much as values and behavior. The excellent Carrie-Anne Sturt, uses personal experience to illuminate how this looks and feels as a neurodivergent researcher. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/m...

Here to toot the horn for every person who comes to work to be awesome, inclusive, collegial and supportive. You totally rock! At Glasgow we run the People Make Research project to recognise and thank culture makers. Read more and get free materials: theauditorium.blog/2025/08/07/p...

Adding my new Oregon stickers to my work laptop.

Time to travel home and get back to work on Monday. We hiked, we road tripped, we laughed, we did the IRONMAN. But this is what I came for — to see old friends. Photos 25 years apart — the first taken in Maine, Camp Pinecliffe, Summer 2000. The second taken yesterday, Lincoln City, OR.

Salem IRONMAN 70.3 — before/after.

Power pose / Portland OR

CYCLE JERSEY!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Packing for Salem 70.3… about to forget something and pay expo prices for it.

No work for now please and thank you.

This new piece by Ricardo Morais contributes to our (now quite extensive) Hidden Curriculum and research culture series. In this post he discusses a deeply hidden curriculum, putting the 'Ph' back in 'PhD': drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/p...

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Ready and prepared for today’s meeting for @wellcometrust.bsky.social Institutional Research Culture Funded projects! Let’s get into it!

Re-authoring the hidden curriculum: authentic connections and essential boundaries -- the brilliant @galafrommexico.bsky.social and @dr-jules.bsky.social offer us the latest in the HC and Research Culture series. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/r...

Supporting neurodiversity in higher degree research supervision: a relational approach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last night I collected the European Mentoring and Coaching Council's Mentoring Award, for Thesis Mentoring at the University of Glasgow. 🤩🏆

One from the weekend. Me and our lad at Ocean Colour Scene in Glasgow this weekend.

Ruth Currie (UWS) makes a great point here — over-layering of the Developer gatekeeping role with the Agent of the Hidden Curriculum role. This is a new take on the HC, and shows us how our working cultures are shaped by such gatekeepers/agents. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/r...

Announcing the REDS Conference Advisory Group! 31 Researcher Education experts from universities, industry, and consultancy, across different nationality contexts. Here to deliver a fantastic #REDSconf2026 for you! Read about our work and meet the team here: redsconference.co.uk/advisory-gro...

Conversations held at a professional distance for conversations that bring professional distance. Abbe Winter and Karen Cavu give us inspiration to bring more informal learning spaces into regular use in our research cultures. Read more: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/c...

Do you know how IP works and your rights to retain your ideas, especially when working in collaboration with supervisors, industries and international collaborators? Emma Kuhn hope to raise the importance of reading the T&Cs! drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/l...

The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference will be held 21-22 January 2026, hosted by the University of Glasgow. Save the dates! To learn more, receive calls for papers, and conference details, as well as published REDS papers please subscribe here: redsconference.co.uk

Today's 5min MUST READ is from @tseenster.bsky.social and @drmeagantyler.bsky.social and looks as memes as a route into the hidden curriculum, and their utility to help unpick pervasive messages that shape our research culture. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i...

Just been reminded I wrote this about Thesis Writing -- is it still valid 8 years on? doctoralwriting.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/m...

The curse of the post-viral legs seems to have lifted. Finally got to Elder parkrun on their 3rd Birthday! Who wore it redest, me or my t-shirt?

Are you doing a part time doctorate? Or maybe you support part time doctoral researchers? Recently I ran a workshop for go-gn based on the book I wrote with @kayguccione.bsky.social and as if by magic they have produced an edited version on YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?si=Uw8...

Would you like to share your experience of supervising doctoral researchers. Call for new submissions to the 'Community Acuity' series: from supervisors, to supervisors. Share reflections on inclusion, teams, and motivating PGRs in 500-750 words. supervisingphds.wordpress.com/contribution...

Linking the latest literature to Supervisor Development provision. Book now for the June and July Supervisor Development Reading Group Sessions – choose from the UK time zoned session, or the Australia time zoned session: www.tickettailor.com/events/sdrg

8.30am and already two comments from folks on campus appreciating @silentypewriter.bsky.social’s tshirt design.

Hat Tip Dan Perry (PGR Intern supporting our work) for a delightful post today on the Auditorium blog, examining the shared values and themes between his research, and our work to develop our research culture and colleagues. Hugely enjoyable. theauditorium.blog/2025/06/10/w...

How do the materials we make to support doctoral learning, and the materials PGRs make for themselves, shape the research culture? Dr @thuydinh.bsky.social and Dr @dariushiz.bsky.social explore this, in their new post on the Hidden Curriculum blog. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/m...

Chicago highlights — none higher than last night’s Paul Simon gig at the Symphony Centre. 💎👟

This week at the inaugural NCRI in Chicago I spoke to the messiness of how people learn in a complex system and used Azjen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour to look at how what we teach/espouse can different from what people feel is the right thing to do in practice.

NEW ARTICLE! Michele Underwood brings us the ideas of building leadership and ownership though co-creating programmes of development for PGRs. Do take a look, a fantastic take on the 2024 REDS Conference theme. redsconference.co.uk/2025/05/19/m...

New on the hidden curriculum blog — developing supervisors through their own hidden sites of learning. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...

Thank you @kayguccione.bsky.social for providing the opportunity and space to reflect on the benefits and opportunities (as well as the challenges 🙂) of completing a #PhD part time alongside other roles...

A quick plug for this book (currently on sale at £16.99) where @jonrainford.bsky.social and I wrote about a PT doctorate as a positive experience providing deeper access to the hidden curriculum www.routledge.com/Thriving-in-...

A new hidden curriculum post by Clare Matysova who offers us her personal reflections to start a conversation about how and where assumptions the PT PhD alongside other professional roles can create a culture of exclusion. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/w...

Not just a course, but a culture: the Hidden Curriculum of undergraduate research education. "Studying qualitative research involves [...] understanding and negotiating the unwritten rules of academic engagement." drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/n...

Now more than two years post- doctorate, I’ve had time to reflect on what the journey truly meant & explore the lasting lessons it left behind.

Recommended read for academic researchers, PIs and supervisors — a new piece on research culture, the hidden curriculum, and the role of agents such as careers professionals in revealing what is hidden. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/n...