Following an open recruitment process, Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Professor of Data Readiness and Associate Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, has been appointed as the Academic Lead for Research Culture (Research Practice) with effect from Michaelmas Term 2022. Professor Sansone will provide academic leadership for realising the University’s ambitions to strengthen its research culture. This will be achieved by drawing together varying strands of activity relating to how researchers design, execute, and report research, while also ensuring that the University shows sector leadership in a constantly-changing external landscape.