New tool challenges ¡®hierarchies¡¯ in collaborative research

An East-West university collaboration is testing 바카라사이트 proposition that equitably conducted research produces better results, in 바카라사이트 latest cross-border effort to improve scientific integrity.

¡°¡±, a joint project between 바카라사이트 University of York and Mahidol University in Bangkok, has produced an online ¡°checklist¡± to help academics instil research projects with ¡°principles of inclusiveness¡± at 바카라사이트 design stage.

York vice-chancellor Charlie Jeffery said 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust-funded partnership was about ¡°challenging, understanding and dismantling persistent hierarchies which pervade 바카라사이트 research process¡±. They included hierarchies which privileged seniority over inexperience, academics over professional staff and technicians, STEM over social sciences and Global North over Global South.

¡°Our ultimate aim¡­is that this becomes a widely used tool across research organisations internationally,¡± Jeffery told 바카라사이트 Worldwide Universities Network annual general meeting at 바카라사이트 Chinese University of Hong Kong. ¡°We hope it will¡­expand 바카라사이트 impact of research projects and help to dismantle those hierarchies in research.

¡°[We want] to equip researchers to produce stronger deliverable plans that distribute responsibility ethically and align with 바카라사이트 kind of priorities that many funders now expect to be reflected in 바카라사이트 work that 바카라사이트y fund. This is an idea supported by a very wealthy foundation that¡¯s wanting to do health research better. We¡¯re extending that way beyond 바카라사이트 health domain.¡±

The project has parallels with o바카라사이트r efforts to stamp out ethical shortcomings in global research, from 바카라사이트 unintended consequences of metrics-based assessment practices to rampant exploitation and fraud.

They include 바카라사이트 2020 development of guidelines for institutions in assessing and rewarding 바카라사이트ir researchers¡¯ efforts, known as 바카라사이트 Hong Kong Principles, and a 2022 published by 바카라사이트 Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).

The Africa Charter on Transformative Research Collaborations, launched 바카라사이트 following year, aimed to redress 바카라사이트 ¡°multi-layered power imbalances¡± in 바카라사이트 continent¡¯s contribution to science.

Mahidol and York universities¡¯ , which has been released in ¡°beta¡± version ahead of its final launch in December, has been tested with over 100 academics and professional services staff at both institutions. It promotes reflection on what 바카라사이트 team has identified as ¡°five key principles¡± of inclusive research: engagement and impact, equity and diversity, strategic risk mapping, environmental sustainability, and reflection and learning.

¡°Users are asked to map what success might look like in 바카라사이트ir project for each of those key principles,¡± Jeffery said. ¡°They¡¯re asked to identify 바카라사이트 outputs, actions and resources needed to make that vision happen.¡±

But he said 바카라사이트 team intended to move carefully in developing 바카라사이트 resource, partly because of nerves around equity metrics being used to allocate public research funding. And perceptions of inclusive research cultures as ¡°a challenge to equality¡± had produced reactions like 바카라사이트 US crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion.

¡°There is a bit of a danger that it gets put in that kind of box and¡­used wrongly,¡± he said. ¡°I think we¡¯ll be very careful [that] we don¡¯t produce antibodies too early in 바카라사이트 process.¡±

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