Over the Autumn of 2021, the Emerging Research Cultures project team held a series of group discussions on the topic of research culture with PhD programmes funded by the Wellcome Trust’s 2019 funding call. We invited all 23 Wellcome programmes to participate in these discussions and were able to schedule discussions with 18 groups. This report is an overview of the main topics and themes of these discussions. It consists of brief paragraphs summarising the themes, with a selection of quotations on each topic linked to the main text. The report concludes with some recommendations for further action in line with the four key areas identified for improvement by discussion participants.