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Reflection and Sustaining Culture Change (8:54)

HDR UK

Healthier Science Through Collaboration

University of Edinburgh

UK Dementia Research Institute

14 July 2026

Last Updated

1 January 2026

Keep your collaboration bridge strong for the long haul by embedding structured reflection practices into your routine. From gratitude circles to targetted retrospectives, learn how to transform individual expertise into collective brilliance and ensure your healthy new culture sticks.

Learning outcomes:

Explain how regular reflection builds collective intelligence and prevents minor tensions from escalating.

Implement structured exercises, such as the Stop, Start, Continue Retrospective, to embed and sustain culture change.

Instructors

Dr Ioanna Thoma

Member of the HxC Early Career Researcher Advisory Group, University of Edinburgh

Dr Haolan Tu

Member of the HxC Early Career Researcher Advisory Group, University of Edinburgh

Dr Jacqueline Siu

Member of the HxC Early Career Researcher Advisory Group, University of Oxford

Dr Lorenzo Capitani

Member of the HxC Early Career Researcher Advisory Group, UK Dementia Research Institute

Organisations

HDR UK

Healthier Science Through Collaboration

University of Edinburgh

UK Dementia Research Institute

Nan Fletcher-Lloyd

Member of the HxC Early Career Researcher Advisory Group, Imperial College London

Dr Inna Yaneva-Toraman

HxC Project Manager & Researcher

Inna is an economic anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher specialising in the global political economy of agri-foods a...

Prof Jane Hillston

HxC Project Lead

Prof Hillston is Chair of Quantitative Modelling and former Head of School (2018–2023) in the School of Informatics. She is Dean...

Prof Chris Ponting

HxC Project Lead

Professor Chris Ponting was appointed as Chair of Medical Bioinformatics, Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of ...

Dr Ava Khamseh

HxC Project Lead

Ava Khamseh is a Lecturer in Biomedical AI at the University of Edinburgh, joint at the School of Informatics and the Institute ...

Dr Amonida Zadissa

HxC Project Lead

Amonida joined UK DRI in November 2022 as the Associate Director of Informatics after 2.5 years as the senior strategy officer a...

Dr Hollydawn Murray

HxC Project Lead, HDR UK

Dr Hollydawn Murray (Head of Open Science, Research Culture, & Impact) works closely with the health data science community to s...