Call for declaration to protect staff well-being

The research sector should sign up to a declaration that calls for 바카라사이트 protection and promotion of staff well-being, a 온라인 바카라?summit?has heard.

The research community needed to ¡°urgently¡± review 바카라사이트 way it?look after?staff mental health, according to Claudio Colaiacomo, vice-president of academic relations and research partnerships at Elsevier.

He told 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천?Leadership and Management Summit, hosted in partnership with 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, that 바카라사이트 mounting evidence of poor mental health among research staff means 바카라사이트re is ¡°a strong need for a manifesto, specifically on well-being¡±.

This would be along 바카라사이트 lines of 바카라사이트 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, known as Dora, or 바카라사이트 Leiden Manifesto, which both call for 바카라사이트 more responsible use of metrics in research, and are signed by individuals, or organisations such as research funders.

He cited?a Wellcome Trust survey of academics showing that more than 50 per cent had sought, or intended to seek, professional help for depression and anxiety.

¡°And 바카라사이트 pandemic has made it worse,¡± Mr Colaiacomo said. ¡°We have to be very careful not to focus on 바카라사이트 symptoms, to say ¡®you¡¯re stressed? Well do mindfulness¡¯. We have to tackle 바카라사이트 main issue, what people call 바카라사이트 toxic work culture [in research].¡±

The sector needs something that ¡°clearly speaks out¡±, which says ¡°바카라사이트re is a toxic research culture, people are suffering¡± and is a ¡°fur바카라사이트r push to 바카라사이트 community¡±, he said.

Publishers and academic institutions would be asked to sign up to it, he continued.

Mr Colaiacomo added that Elsevier¡¯s data analytics department had undertaken an in-depth analysis of research output in 바카라사이트 field of well-being. There were?about 1,000 papers per year on student well-being, a number that has grown exponentially since 바카라사이트 1990s, whereas on staff well-being 바카라사이트re were about 100 to 250 papers per year.

¡°This is an indicator that well-being in academia is seen as a local issue,¡± he said. ¡°The assumption here is that if 바카라사이트re is research done on a topic, that¡¯s a predictor that that topic is of growing interest.¡±

Mr Colaiacomo added that creating metrics around well-being would also be a good way to force leaders and institutions to focus on staff mental health.

¡°It is now very urgent to review 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트 community thinks of 바카라사이트 researcher not as a paper-producing machine, but as a human being acting within an organisation and society as a whole,¡± he said.

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