A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognising Team Infrastructure Roles

Lightning talk by Esther Plomp for FORCE11 2023 conference on the 19th of April.

Abstract: Large research teams benefit from people with diverse skills.This has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills. TIRs play an important role in ensuring the success of a research project, but are neglected under current reward and recognition procedures that focus on research articles as the primary way for scholarly communication. We propose system level changes to recognise TIR contributions that will affect scholarly communication in the long term. We particularly welcome feedback from regions other than the EU and US, since our suggestions are based on our personal experiences of the systems in these regions.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.53962/knm3-bnvx