What is COMET all about?

High-quality research is more likely to flourish within an environment and culture that is fair, inclusive and supportive. Such a culture is shaped, in part, by the decisions and actions taken within research organisations. The COMET project aims to improve decision-making within institutions around research culture, by promoting and facilitating evidence-informed practice.

This will be achieved by:

• A research strand of the project to produce a body of evidence demonstrating how decisions are currently made, after undertaking a rigorous study with a sample of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and
• A change strand of the project to co-design practical outputs with stakeholders to support institutions improve their decision-making by basing those decisions on better evidence.

The project is run the Univerities of Bristol and Sussex, and funded by the Wellcome Trust.