Advocacy for Responsible Research Assessment for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Workshop Abstract

It has long been recognized that the system of research and researcher assessment needs to change. There is a range of research assessment reform initiatives: worldwide, regional and national initiatives, along with declarations from funding bodies and associations. Examples of such initiatives are: The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, the Open Science Career Assessment Matrix, and the Recognition and Rewards programme in the Netherlands, the Norwegian Research Assessment Matrix. The initiatives provide recommendations and possible actions.

At the workshop, participants will first get a brief overview of current worldwide and regional initiatives that have momentum and that are relevant for various stakeholders in Social Sciences and Humanities. Participants will then engage actively with the content of these initiatives. The purpose of the workshop is to help participants to start thinking about the concrete recommendations, action suggestions, and resources from the different initiatives and how concrete actions can be developed. The workshop specifically targets a broad group of audience with various backgrounds. Participants will collaborate in small groups to see how the various action suggestions can be implemented in their specific contexts and for specific target groups, or how more general recommendations can translate to concrete actions (informational resources, advocacy actions and materials). Participants will be able to choose whether they want to work with one specific recommendation from one initiative (e.g. Commitment 3 in ARRA about the inappropriate uses of publication-based metrics), combine similar recommendations from several initiatives (Commitment 3 in ARRA and the recommendations in DORA), or combine several recommendations from one or more initiatives.

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