@annasharmanrd.bsky.social did a great job live posting from #REDSConference2026 - definitely something I need to revisit as a practice…along making more use of this platform again
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Today, we delivered a short WIP talk at #REDSConference2026 about our game-based activity aimed at dismantling the cultural barriers of interdisciplinary collaborations.
Thank you to REDs for the inspiring talks, and for allowing attendees to come together and discuss what creativity is.
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Massive thanks to @kayguccione.bsky.social joannaroyle.bsky.social @andrewrowe.bsky.social @katiejones.bsky.social @acwristeph.bsky.social @heleddhaf.bsky.social @rpjf68.bsky.social @nbridgeman.bsky.social @lucubrat.bsky.social @madzmitch.bsky.social and others - amazing job! #REDSConference2026
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#REDSConference2026 I'd certainly say that this was the best online conference I've ever attended, even though it didn't include any small breakout groups! I've now got lots of follow-up to do to make the most of all the resources and contacts I've gained.
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#REDSConference2026 Kay Guccione's closing remarks: Watch out for the call for new REDS Conference Advisory Group members to help shape next year's conference. Many presentations will be turned into blog articles with help from the team. Follow the REDS LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/rese...
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#REDSConference2026: Next year's REDS is on 20th and 21st January 2027. This has been excellent, I highly recommend people register for next year. And it's free!
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#REDSConference2026 Tips from Lisa Bradley for those who want to use creative approaches more in researcher development: Find your allies, work out your values and north star, keep hold of why you do this and what guides you. But we all need to help each other.
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#REDSConference2026 Kay Guccione mentions that they made an actual quilt in this project! Someone brought a tie with the periodic table on it. It was made in the atrium of the building so everyone could see it as they went past. It led to setting up a maker space. It is warm and cosy with the quilt.
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One comment at #REDSConference2026: "the thing I'm most proud of this year is a colleague telling me that because I crochet and/or use fidget toys in public, I gave them the confidence to choose to use a squeeze ball during presentations to help them deal with their stage fright." I love this.
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#REDSConference2026 The chat has lit up with community and creative discussion during Lisa Bradley's keynote! Lots of dog pics, crochet, and plushies including Octavio the octopus
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#REDSConference2026 Bradley: the linear career path doesn't feel very relevant to our 'postnormal times'. This gives an opportunity. Alternative futures can take shape through supporting non-linear career paths, expanding who counts as a research, holding uncertainty without rushing to closure.
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#REDSConference2026 Bradley: Another 'quilt' for this online session: Lisa invited us to write one word on a piece of paper, something that is needed in research culture, and hold it up to our camera. I put 'equity'.
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#REDSConference2026 Bradley: Research culture also involves creativity, in reframing what is encouraged, discouraged or dismissed. Creativity as working within constraints and making small shifts, making space for different types of research.
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#REDSConference2026 Bradley: Community in research is not just nice to have, but can become one of the conditions that enables development of researchers.
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#REDSConference2026 Bradley: Creativity also shows up when we create our own futures, do our work, and especially when we make community. Communities don't arise automatically, aren't guaranteed by roles or structures, but are made gradually through practice: welcome, trust, repetition, care.
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#REDSConference2026 Lisa Bradley talks about quilts as a way of thinking. It holds multiple stories, including fragmenets, is produced together with others, it is slow, repetitive, involves care and also critique, and is embodied in material. Quilts are tender, fierce, reparative, and provocative.
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#REDSConference2026 Lisa Bradley invited us to do something creative together! Put our cameras on, reach for some object that supports us in our work. I found some sheet music. She took a screenshot, and said 'you have just made a quilt'.
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The #REDSConference2026 closing keynote is from Dr Lisa Bradley (Uni of Glasgow) on "Creativity in Practice: Making Communities, Cultures, and Futures in Higher Education". She asks "What becomes possible when creativity is viewed as a crucial strategic practice?"
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#REDSConference2026 Shepard came to this after dissatisfaction with linear views of career pathways. She thought about shortcuts and desire lines in this context. This conference has helped her put the ideas together - great to have a space for these uncomplete ideas to be discussed!
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#REDSConference2026 Jane Shepard of UAL presents a fascinating WIP looking at research environments by analogy with Jane Jacobs' 1961 work on human-centred urban design. The ideas of small blocks, mixed use neighbourhoods and eyes on the street can also be applied to research environments.
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#REDSConference2026 This project is from Emma Waters, researcher developer, and Michael McEwan, academic developer, at University of Glasgow. A great example of collaboration across disciplines leading to exciting new ideas
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#REDSConference2026 One new Glasgow course is called Collaboration in Practice, which involves different kinds of pedagogy, eg games, activities aimed at learning through failure, plus a project in collab with a postdoc. Postdoc gets teaching experience and confidence.
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Now at #REDSConference2026 I'm in the 'Works in Progress' stream, with 5-minute talks about ongoing projects. First up is a U Glasgow project on developing teaching opportunities for postdoctoral researchers as part of a curriculum of applied and experiential learning exploring societal challenges
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#REDSConference2026 The Academic's Success Guide from Imperial was mentioned in this session: www.imperial.ac.uk/academics-su...
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#REDSConference2026 Also lots of discussion about terminology - many hate 'mid-career', some also hate 'early-career'. Those on fixed term contracts may not feel 'established'. But 'mid-career' can have connotations of 'mid-life crisis' or 'middle of the road'.
Researchers, what do you think?
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#REDSConference2026 Lots of love for the @whiteroseuc.bsky.social established researchers project in the chat. One said "I can see the potential for a quiz to help people reflect on which kind they identify with, would like to become…"
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#REDSConference2026 The team are using these personas to target support to where people are. They are curating OA resources around themes of strategic career dev, research leadership, and workload & personal effectiveness. Includes new content they are developing. This will go live in spring 2026.
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#REDSConference2026 Persona 4: Boundary Spanner: those who work over various domains, not just academia. Worry about their impact engagement work and emotional labour going unseen, and about competing stakeholder demands.
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#REDSConference2026 Persona 3: Project architect: careers fragmented over successive projects. They find it hard to make project-based leadership visible in promotion, and need support with grant portfolio planning
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#REDSConference2026 Persona 2: Independent Scholar: grounded in sustained thinking and writing. Main worries are undervaluation of intellectual scholarship and erosion of writing momentum. They need help protecting time for writing and thinking, support for delivery and clear promotion criteria
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