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Director at CultureBase - Vice-Chair of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📢 Register for the 5th Helsinki Initiative webinar (8 December) on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with presentations by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social, @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Andre Brasil! More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
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Martin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A helpful reminder from @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Frances Downey of why improving research culture is needed and the work that PCE plans are building on www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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REF 2029 must honour call for culture change - Research Professional News
Lobbying for the status quo ignores decade of evidence, say Karen Stroobants and Frances Downey
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 10/07/2025
We’re co-developing a Good Practice Exchange (GPEx) for research and innovation culture with the community – and we want your input! Have your say in our survey👉 www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul... ⏰Closes 10 August 2025
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karenstroobants.bsky.social @karenstroobants.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Great to be joining today’s King’s College Research Culture Symposium, looking forward to a great line up of talks and to get inspired to continue contributing to improving #ResearchCulture in 2025 #ResearchAssessmrnt #ReformingRA
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025 Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for: ✅ Virtual symposia ✅ In-person panels ✅ Talks & posters ⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025 🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
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Call for Proposals - Metascience
The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.
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EU-LIFE @eu-life.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Warmest congratulations to the new CoARA Steering Board, particularly to Chair Henk Kummeling (Coimbra Group) & Vice-Chair @karenstroobants.bsky.social (MCAA)! And a big thanks to @rianneletschert.bsky.social & outgoing members Looking forward to continuing to work towards fair #ResearchAssessment!
CoARA Steering Board 2025. Image from CoARA on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coarassessment_announcing-the-results-of-coaras-steering-activity-7271906836419645440-1qOJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Brilliant AI primer from Linda Raftree at #Revaluation24 but it’s driving me insane that she’s having to hold her own head mike battery pack cos the tech is built for men. 😡
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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
More of this, please. TLDR 1) Rankings are inadequate to help us understand what a ‘good’ HEI looks like; 2) HEIs’ main function is their epistemic responsibilities, 3) Provides 3 tools to enable HEIs to realise their epistemic responsibilities. 👍🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Development of practical tools to realize the epistemic responsibilities of universities: a co-design study
University rankings have strongly influenced the values, practices, and policies universities adopt to be considered good universities. Thinking in terms of epistemic responsibilities (ERs) of univ...
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Tony Ross-Hellauer @tonyrh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New Paper! “Understanding the social and political dimensions of research(er) assessment: evaluative flexibility and hidden criteria in promotion processes at research institutes”, just published in Research Evaluation by me, @naubertbonn.bsky.social & Serge Horbach. Thread below!
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James Morris @jpmorris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Fantastic & dynamic session on forgotten questions in research assessment reform at REvaluation 2024! - led by @karenstroobants.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social & @naubertbonn.bsky.social
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karenstroobants.bsky.social @karenstroobants.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Should research assessment reform be ‘as aligned as possible, as diverse as needed’? Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 2 – Can we apply the scientific method to research assessment? 👩‍💻Noémie Aubert Bonn & Haley F. Hazlett #AcademicSky #Metascience #ResearchAssessment
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Unanswered questions in research assessment 2 – Can we apply the scientific method to research assessment?
Noemie Aubert Bonn and Haley Hazlett discuss the importance of applying scholarly standards to research assessment reform efforts and the value of creating space for experimentation, transpare…
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James Morris @jpmorris.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
At REvaluation 2024 in Vienna presenting Science Europe's Shared Values Framework as a means to help capture better 'how' research is done rather than only 'what' research is done as part of assessment processes. #CoARA. With @karenstroobants.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn & Sean Sapcariu
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James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Are we all metascientists now? Slides from my talk today at REvaluation 2024 www.revaluation2024.eu in Vienna rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... #REvaluation24 @rorinstitute.bsky.social #metascience
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Are we all metascientists now? James Wilsdon talk at REvaluation Conference, Vienna, 4 December 2024
In this opening talk at the REvaluation 2024 conference, James Wilsdon (RoRI & UCL) describes the changing landscape for metascience in research, policy and practice -- across academia, funding organi...
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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Current situation: awaiting a flight to Vienna and the REvaluation conference where Karen Stroobants, Noemie Aubert-Bonn and I will be discussing exactly this! Let the conversation begin. 😊
Plane on concourse.
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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last year in conversation with some fabulous female global research assessment leaders discussing some forgotten questions in research assessment. The first of these is published on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd question some existing approaches. Here they discuss how  reform efforts may need to reconsider the usefuln…
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches? 👩‍💻 @lizziegadd.bsky.social & Claire Fraser #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchAssessment
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Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd question some existing approaches. Here they discuss how  reform efforts may need to reconsider the usefuln…
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