The Responsible Futures Skills Lab was a two-day collaborative forum at Newcastle University Business School focused on how responsible and sustainable futures can be embedded in academic practice. While Day 1 addressed teaching, Day 2 focused on research: how cross-disciplinary, challenge-led work can be designed, supported, published, and made relevant beyond the academy. The day brought together business school scholars, climate and environmental researchers, modelling experts, journal editors, and participants from different institutions to examine what responsible futures research requires in practice. Discussions highlighted that cross-disciplinary research cannot simply add collaborators after a project has been framed. It requires early attention to problem definition, disciplinary assumptions, language, methods, publication strategies, stakeholder engagement, and institutional incentives. The report summarises the main insights from Day 2 and identifies practical lessons for designing research that is intellectually robust, institutionally viable, and relevant to societal challenges.