Pecha Kucha presentation for INORMS2018 about Ghent University plans to offer the research community the support and tools to set up their own research quality assurance
The document discusses embedding mHealth into undergraduate medical education. It describes an elective course introduced for first year medical students that addressed challenges in three key areas: curriculum, staff expertise, and student issues. Challenges such as curriculum crowding and lack of resources/funding were addressed through interventions like using existing curriculum space and cross-subsidizing from research funds. Outcomes included establishing strategies to incorporate new content, identifying future sustainability needs, and developing a network of champions. The course provided models for student learning in areas like clinical practice and use of social media tools.
Presentation on learning analytics given by Rebecca Ferguson at the Nordic Learning Analytics Summer Institute (Nordic LASI), organised by the SLATE Centre, in Bergen Norway, 29 September 2017.
Spring 2011 Signature Experience Projects Kick-OffTXWes_PMO
This document outlines several focus areas and projects for Spring 2011 at Wesleyan University:
1. Enhancing transfer student engagement by developing an intentional community and process to engage and support transfer students from acceptance through graduation.
2. Organizing career preparation programs, counseling, experiences and placement services in an integrated approach to support career placement.
3. Improving physical and virtual spaces using student input to positively contribute to the student experience.
4. Developing a coordinated process for scheduling and communicating campus events and information to the community, and communicating the "Signature Experience" to all stakeholder groups.
At the 6th NICE Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, Gilles Gervais, Programme Manager for Erasmus Plus at the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, was planning on making a presentation on Knowledge Alliances, a new funding scheme of the European Commission. The presentation, which was due for May 29, 2015, unfortunately had to be cancelled due to a blackout of the Belgian airport system, but the slides were shared with the conference participants. The presentation highlights lessons learned from the first round of applications for KA-projects from 2014. The information shared here is also available through the EACEA's website.
The document provides an update on attendance monitoring and other issues from UKBA. It discusses a recent meeting between UKBA and higher education organizations where UKBA clarified their position on attendance monitoring and committed to forming a working group. It outlines principles that could guide attendance monitoring, including focusing on academic engagement and aligning processes with general student policies. The document also discusses upcoming changes to Tier 1 graduate entrepreneur and PhD extension visas and next steps regarding attendance monitoring principles.
This document summarizes a workshop on analytics in education. The workshop included unpacking analytics, raising questions and concerns, and two case studies. It also discussed achievable ambitions and next steps for analytics. The workshop aimed to consider practical ways analytics could enhance student experience and outcomes. Participants discussed questions around analytics use, common mistakes identified in assessments, and supporting at-risk students through engagement data. Small group discussions focused on developing improved thinking around analytics in education.
Employer Engagement - Supporting Study and SynthesisJISC BCE
This document summarizes the findings of a study exploring employer engagement programs between higher education institutions and employers. It identifies 5 case studies of institutions that developed systems and infrastructure to support employer engagement and work-based learning. The case studies explored issues like remote access to educational resources, customized learning programs, and tools to match employer needs with institutional offerings. The analysis found that successful programs require an incremental approach, understanding business and learner needs, effective training, and sharing best practices. Key recommendations include considering the employer perspective across activities, supporting long-term adoption of solutions, and creating ways to evaluate institutional responsiveness to customer feedback.
This document discusses the challenges of linking research to end users and decision makers. It identifies several challenges, including researchers and end users speaking different languages, difficulties defining practical problems as research questions, and uncertainties around how research will be applied. It then provides solutions such as collaborating with end users early in the research process, using knowledge brokers to facilitate communication, providing case studies and funding to support knowledge translation activities, and connecting researchers and end users through databases and forums. The overall goal is to improve how research informs real-world policy and practice decisions.
This presentation provides an overview of HEFCE's learning gain programme, including pilot projects, research activities, and lessons learned. Key activities include pilot projects at over 60 institutions measuring different aspects of learning gain, a national mixed methodology project longitudinally assessing over 2,500 students, and the Higher Education Learning Gain Analysis group investigating tradeoffs between validity and data collection burden. The presentation reflects on challenges of student participation, defining and measuring learning gain, and opportunities for enhancing teaching and learning based on learning gain insights.
Yvonne Hawkins discusses the Higher Education Funding Council for England's (HEFCE) learning gain programme, which aims to develop methods for measuring student learning and improvement during their time in higher education. Some key activities of the programme include pilot projects at institutions, a national project measuring learning gain, and analyzing administrative data. HEFCE is also developing an online toolkit of peer-reviewed learning gain methodologies to help institutions select appropriate approaches. Finally, Hawkins notes the Office for Students will need to consider learning gain in relation to its new regulatory objectives.
This document discusses using the AUA CPD Framework to support professional transformation and change management. The session objectives are to practice applying the framework, consider how change impacts people, and reflect on how the framework could support future change initiatives. The framework uses professional behaviors to provide a comprehensive picture of effective performance expectations. It has benefits like a longer shelf life than skills and a focus on "how" work is done. The document provides examples of how individuals, teams, and organizations can use the framework for things like identifying strengths and areas for development, refocusing team purpose, and aligning learning and development activities.
Student Analytics enables higher education institutions to improve student success through personalized, proactive support services based on data-driven insights. It helps address challenges like increasing student numbers, funding pressures, and varied student needs. Student Analytics collects student background, performance, and engagement data to identify at-risk students early and recommend tailored advising, courses, and programs. This approach benefits students through better support and guidance, counselors by focusing on those most in need, and institutions through higher retention, graduation, and cost savings. Deloitte's four-phased approach helps institutions develop and implement effective Student Analytics solutions.
Cross institutional collaboration for connected cpd in heSue Beckingham
Presentation at #ALTC 2015
The power of open cross-institutional collaboration for connected professional development in higher education
Abstract: https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/sessions/the-power-of-open-cross-institutional-collaboration-for-connected-professional-development-in-higher-education-801/
Making reform happen and evaluating reform in educationdvndamme
The document discusses leveraging the OECD's knowledge on education to guide policymaking through a "GPS approach". This approach would provide member countries real-time access to extracted evidence and analyses from OECD education documents and data. The goals are to help countries assess the impact of reforms and make informed policy decisions by navigating focused, actionable evidence on issues. It aims to shift from providing full documents to targeted evidence and maintaining links to source materials. Most teachers participate in professional development but many desire more, according to OECD surveys.
The document discusses an organization called Research in Practice that aims to promote the use of research evidence to improve outcomes for children and families. It does this through Change Projects, which involve practitioners collaborating to develop tools to apply research findings in practice. The document describes a recent Change Project focused on re-engaging young people in learning at key stage 3. Participants were introduced to research on disengagement and will work to inform local policies and support practitioners on this issue.
The document discusses issues with the current model of professional legal education in Scotland and proposes reforms to address past deficits. Specifically:
1. There is currently no clear concept of linkage between different stages of legal education and no agreed performance standards across providers.
2. A new curriculum structure is proposed that has professionalism at its core, is flexible, and builds on jurisdictional knowledge through a community of practice approach.
3. Forming a community of practice among legal education providers is suggested, with initiatives like shared resources, peer review, and disseminating innovative practices.
Open Innovation Team pilot phase reviewChrisWebber37
The Cabinet Office's Open Innovation Team helps UK government departments generate analysis and ideas by deepening collaboration with academics. Its pilot phase has been supported by Research Councils UK and sponsored by four leading UK universities: Bath, Lancaster, Southampton and Warwick.
Ontario CIO Shared Service Meeting June 1 2018eCampusOntario
This document provides an agenda and overview for a Shared Services meeting at eCampusOntario. The agenda includes welcoming introductions, discussing eCampusOntario's context and test concepts, collecting thoughts on a test concept, supporting equity and access, discussing a provincial survey structure and communications strategy, measuring sandbox success, and next steps. The overview discusses eCampusOntario's reach across Ontario post-secondary institutions, the principles of extending practice and rethinking as themes to guide program designs, assumptions about openness, examples of open educational resources, and potential benefits and structures for a shared services program.
The document discusses dimensions of open educational practices (OEP) that were identified through an analysis of 34 case studies. It outlines eight key dimensions: strategies and policies, quality assurance models, partnership models, tools and practices, innovations, skills development and support, business models/sustainability strategies, and barriers and success factors. These dimensions influence the actions of different stakeholders, including policymakers, administrators, educational professionals, and learners. The document then provides examples and evidence from the case studies for each of the eight dimensions.
Faculty survey results and interviews with senior decision makers leading their institutions’ MOOC strategies:
What were the original motivations behind your MOOC strategy? How have your motivations evolved after some experience with MOOCs? How are you measuring the success of your MOOC strategy? What lessons and best practices have emerged from your experience with MOOCs? What are your plans to expand the use of MOOCs? What advice would you give to other senior leaders considering a MOOC strategy?
The document outlines a presentation given by Dr. Gary Jones on knowledge mobilisers and the role of school research leads. It defines knowledge mobilisers as people who connect different stakeholders and disseminate research findings. Ward's 2016 framework for knowledge mobilisation is described as considering why knowledge is mobilized, what knowledge, whose knowledge, and how. Preliminary findings are shared from a research project on how school research leads select and share research with teachers. The presentation aims to define key terms, outline Ward's framework, share early research findings, and discuss implications for research leads and schools.
E-Research Open Learning Conference Unisa 2018Terry Anderson
This document summarizes current research methods and results in e-learning. It discusses several topics being researched, including specific topics like access, equity and ethics in distance education systems. It outlines three levels of research perspectives (macro, meso, micro) and lists 15 research areas. Common research paradigms in e-learning like positivism, constructivism, and critical theory are also defined. The document advocates for developing a research agenda to establish priority areas and encourage cooperation. It promotes open access publishing over proprietary journals. In conclusion, it provides links to related publications and resources and invites comments on the presented information.
Skills for information management team and friendsJisc
This document summarizes the roles and responsibilities of a university research information management team. It outlines the services they provide such as open access publishing support and training, repository management, reporting, and advising on data management plans and costs. It also discusses the skills of team members including information management, research experience, and project management. It considers challenges such as balancing generic and local skills and addresses them with solutions like training, sharing best practices, and clear communication.
The document discusses the concept of openness in research and education. It raises questions about what openness means, how open is open, and the potential benefits and challenges of openness. Some key points discussed include the need to balance openness with legal and ethical standards, managing risks of openness, and ensuring quality control of research outputs before sharing them openly.
The document summarizes a research program called GRIP (Growing Research in Practice) that aims to develop a culture of practitioner research among social workers in Auckland, New Zealand. The program brings together practitioners, academics, and agencies to conduct small-scale research projects on issues in their own practice. It provides mentoring, workshops, and resources to support practitioners in developing research skills and confidence. Early analysis finds the collaborative approach helped build research capacity and confidence among social workers, though challenges around time, knowledge, and resources remain. The program highlights the need for organizational support and commitment to further develop a culture of practitioner research in social work.
This document discusses key aspects of research methodology. It defines research as a systematic investigation of a subject or problem to discover relevant information. The research process involves 5 steps: 1) exploring and defining the research problem, 2) designing the research, 3) administering the research, 4) performing data analysis, and 5) developing and submitting a research report. Designing the research includes establishing the methodology, study designs, population, sampling, data collection tools, testing tools for validity and reliability, fieldwork administration, data processing, and a work schedule. The goal is to conduct scientific inquiry to address problems through systematic data collection and analysis.
Online Teaching and Learning
It is one of the most popular types of distance education
It continues to increase for the broader students
It is a part of E-learning
Online teaching is very common for secondary and higher education programs.
The population and institutions that use online learning increased over the last years.
What is Online Teaching and Learning?
Online teaching is a way to escape from the traditional classes.
Join a course or an institution which is far away from you
Study when you want, 24 hour a day and
Be more independent for your learning in your life.
Benefits from online teaching
The only thing that you have to do as a student is to have an access to a computer and Internet.
Computer is the main tool for reading and evaluation
Based on online software that includes different tools and functions
For Online teaching content is delivered synchronously and/or asynchronously.
The content is usually provides as digital textbooks and handouts, or videos etc.
Course content developed by week, section etc,
Tools and Content
Instructors have to guide students from “the other side”
They have a different and supporting role
They use email, forums, discussion boards or instant messaging to contact, interact or evaluate their students
Design and build their courses based on online software that includes different tools and functions that are easy and useful for learners.
Teacher - Instructor
Students have their own responsibilities
They have to develop their new knowledge as they interact with the online environment.
Students use their computer online to interact with their instructor
Their evaluations essays, poster, presentation have to deliver online and digital to their teachers.
Student - Learners
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Virtual Teams and Protecting Information Assets- Case 4
The Case Assignment for this module involves your analysis of what is known, somewhat known, not known, or "known" but wrong in the area of the management of virtual teams. Since this phenomenon is relatively new, there isn't a large body of knowledge specifically about such teams. Most of the advice floating around about virtual teams comes from one or more of four types of sources:
· The small number of academically respectable research studies on virtual teams
· The very large body of research done on the management of teams generally (dating back to the 1930s and of somewhat questionable generalizability due to differences in tools, culture, society, and just about everything else)
· The modest but steadily increasing body of informal or "practice wisdom" information, generally made available through blogs or other Internet sources
· The quite large body of essentially uninformed but ready-to-be-shared opinion about the topic, also Internet-available
The first two bodies of information are generally easy to identify and distinguish; they'll be found in academic journals, conference transactions, and other such sourc.
Collaborative, Program-wide Alignment of Assessments and ePortfolios to Build...ePortfolios Australia
During their course of study, medical science students are generally unaware that they are developing professional skills related to graduate capabilities. Interestingly, at a program level the institution finds it difficult to view the development of these capabilities. In this session we will discuss our own learning journey as discipline specific teachers who have worked collaboratively to implement ePortfolios and rubrics across courses and within the medical science degree program at UNSW Australia. Our approach to supporting student learning and development of reflective practice and professional skills in teamwork by cross-discipline alignment of assessment coupled with ePortfolio thinking and doing will be presented.
This document summarizes the capacity assessments conducted by the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) partners of their health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) groups. It provides an overview of the methodology used for the assessments, key findings about the capacities of the seven partner organizations, and reflections on the assessment process. The assessments found that while the demand for HPSR+A research and teaching is growing in African universities, the capacity levels and needs varied across the partners. The assessments were seen as a positive experience that strengthened organizational capacities.
Effective Creation, Mediation and Use of Knowledge in and about Education.EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Philippa Cordingley from the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) at the CERI Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education on 3 November 2014 during session 3.a: Knowledge-intensive Governance, Innovation and Change.
The document discusses visions for the future of learning analytics based on a presentation given by Rebecca Ferguson. It outlines several potential futures for learning analytics, including learners being monitored by their learning environments, learners' personal data being tracked, and learners controlling their own data. It also discusses various challenges regarding ethics, regulation, validity, and affect that will need to be addressed for learning analytics to achieve its potential while avoiding negative consequences. The overall message is that learning analytics show promise to improve education if developed and applied carefully and ethically with student well-being and consent as top priorities.
This document provides an overview of science communication and tips for engaging in it. It discusses reasons to do science communication such as open science, combating fake news, and professional and personal development. It emphasizes the importance of considering stakeholders and using storytelling. It recommends showing passion, being personal, telling the right story well, being a leader, and building a community of support. The document advises practicing communication skills, looking for mentors, caring about one's digital presence, networking, and choosing an approach that fits one's personality and research area.
Finding the best structure to support impact - case of IDC at Ghent UniversityEsther De Smet
The document outlines the two stage approach taken by Ghent University to establish interdisciplinary research consortia aimed at societal impact (IDC). In stage one, five social science consortia were formed with dedicated coordinators and underwent research assessments focusing on strategy, quality, and impact. In stage two, the social science consortia transitioned to IDCs with open-ended coordinator contracts and were required to create impact plans. The university also began accepting applications for new IDCs and evaluated consortia and coordinators qualitatively based on organization, interdisciplinarity, and impact. The goal was to better support research with societal impact through dedicated structures, people, and assessment procedures.
This presentation discussed using research to address problems and create positive outcomes and impact. It explained that research activities can produce outputs that help solve issues and make improvements through outcomes like new knowledge, policies, and societal changes. The presentation encouraged listeners to think about how research can help address problems and what difference it can make.
This document provides guidance on effective communication and public engagement for academics and researchers. It outlines five key points of being a good communicator, including showing passion, being personal, telling the right and well-told story, being a leader, and creating a community of support. It also discusses the importance of gaining the trust and respect of the community with which you are trying to engage. The document provides suggestions for enriching one's job through public engagement activities, both within and outside one's organization, and learning from training, mentors, experience, and public feedback. It encourages academics to think of their research as one useful skill among many and not as their primary identity.
Impact support for research administratorsEsther De Smet
Workshop for NARMA on how research admin can collaborate across departments and work with researchers to motivate, promote, identify, and describe impact - March 2019
Digital scholarly practices are evolving. Researchers now have online presences and share information via social media platforms, which can increase visibility and citations. Metrics now track how research is discussed online, through mentions on platforms like Twitter. While these "alternative metrics" or "altmetrics" correlate with citations, social media discussions do not necessarily predict traditional citation impact. Altmetrics provide additional contextual information about research impact and engagement beyond citations alone.
1) Ghent University is working to create a supportive impact culture by developing common understanding, taxonomy, and roadmap around impact.
2) This includes open science policies, research evaluation frameworks, and rewards/incentives for impactful research like career progression and funding requirements.
3) The university is taking a case study approach to impact evaluation and investing in knowledge brokers to strengthen impact trajectories across interdisciplinary research areas.
Plenary talk about the importance of approaching your research impact and communication strategically
Zeg 't Eens / Let's Talk Science Summer School 2018
Esther gives a presentation to researchers at Ghent University explaining the importance of societal impact and value creation through research. She outlines five pathways for achieving societal impact and provides 13 reasons why researchers should care about real-world impact, such as using taxpayer funding to benefit society, gaining new ideas from stakeholders, and career opportunities outside of academia. Ghent University is working to introduce new frameworks that evaluate and reward researchers for societal impact.
Workshop on research impact, research communication, and public engagement for FEARS 2018 (research symposium of Faculty of Engineering at Ghent University)
This document provides tips for using social media effectively in an academic setting. It recommends determining a clear strategy that matches your profile information and content. It emphasizes quality over quantity when posting, and suggests building a network that includes influencers to advertise your work. Specific tips include using hashtags and visuals strategically, engaging with others by replying and quoting, and maintaining a positive tone that is authentic and part of an integrated communication strategy. The overall goals are to use social media to disseminate research, foster collaboration and community, and engage broader audiences.
Workshop for PhD researchers: Impact is ComingEsther De Smet
The document discusses helping researchers overcome feelings of despair and lack of impact when faced with the "cold steep Wall of Academia". It encourages joining a quest to discover how research can make a real difference, and learning who supports this goal. Researchers are advised to choose their tools and strategies wisely, and awaken their ability to communicate their work and its importance to broader audiences.
This document summarizes a workshop on digital identity and networking for researchers. It provides tips on using social media to promote research, including developing a communication strategy, producing regular content, reusing content while adapting it for different platforms, and having fun. The document emphasizes building networks, interacting authentically, and maintaining visibility online through a consistent social media presence and digital identity.
Prototype Implementation of Non-Volatile Memory Support for RISC-V Keystone E...LenaYu2
Handling confidential information has become an increasingly important concern among many areas of society. However, current computing environments have been still vulnerable to various threats, and we should think they are untrusted.
Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have attracted attention because they can execute a program in a trusted environment constructed on an untrusted platform.
Particularly, the RISC-V Keystone is one of the interesting TEEs since it is a flexibly customizable and fully open-source platform. On the other hand, as same as other TEEs, it must also delegate I/O processing, such as file accesses, to a host OS, resulting in the expensive overhead. For this problem, we thought utilizing byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) modules is a useful solution to handle persistent data objects for TEEs.
In this paper, we introduce a prototype implementation of NVM support for the Keystone. Additionally, we evaluate it on the Freedom U500 built on a VC707 FPGA dev kit.
https://ken.ieice.org/ken/paper/20210720TC4K/
The extremotolerant desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising pioneer ...Sérgio Sacani
Many plans to establish human settlements on other planets focus on
adapting crops to growth in controlled environments. However, these settlements will also require pioneer plants that can grow in the soils and
harsh conditions found in extraterrestrial environments, such as those
on Mars. Here, we report the extraordinary environmental resilience of Syntrichia caninervis, a desert moss that thrives in various extreme environments. S. caninervis has remarkable desiccation tolerance; even after
losing >98% of its cellular water content, it can recover photosynthetic
and physiological activities within seconds after rehydration. Intact plants
can tolerate ultra-low temperatures and regenerate even after being stored
in a freezer at 80C for 5 years or in liquid nitrogen for 1 month.
S. caninervis also has super-resistance to gamma irradiation and can survive and maintain vitality in simulated Mars conditions; i.e., when simultaneously exposed to an anoxic atmosphere, extreme desiccation, low temperatures, and intense UV radiation. Our study shows that S. caninervis is
among the most stress tolerant organisms. This work provides fundamental insights into the multi-stress tolerance of the desert moss
S. caninervis, a promising candidate pioneer plant for colonizing extraterrestrial environments, laying the foundation for building biologically sustainable human habitats beyond Earth.
This an presentation about electrostatic force. This topic is from class 8 Force and Pressure lesson from ncert . I think this might be helpful for you. In this presentation there are 4 content they are Introduction, types, examples and demonstration. The demonstration should be done by yourself
Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanetSérgio Sacani
We observed two transits of HD 189733b in JWST program 1633 using JWST
NIRCam grism F444W and F322W2 filters on August 25 and 29th 2022. The first
visit with F444W used SUBGRISM64 subarray lasting 7877 integrations with 4
BRIGHT1 groups per integration. Each effective integration is 2.4s for a total effective exposure time of 18780.9s and a total exposure duration of 21504.2s (∼6 hrs)
including overhead. The second visit with F322W2 used SUBGRISM64 subarray
lasting 10437 integrations with 3 BRIGHT1 groups per integration. Each effective
integration is 1.7s for a total effective exposure time of 17774.7s and a total exposure
duration of 21383.1s (∼6 hrs) including overhead. The transit duration of HD189733
b is ∼1.8 hrs and both observations had additional pre-ingress baseline relative to
post-egress baseline in anticipating the potential ramp systematics at the beginning
of the exposure from NIRCam infrared detectors.
Towards Wearable Continuous Point-of-Care Monitoring for Deep Vein Thrombosis...ThrombUS+ Project
Kaldoudi E, Marozas M, Jurkonis R, Pousset N, Legros M, Kircher M, Novikov D, Sakalauskas A, Moustakidis P, Ayinde B, Moltani LA, Balling S, Vehkaoja A, Oksala N, Macas A, Balciuniene N, Bigaki M, Potoupnis M, Papadopoulou S-L, Grandone E, Gautier M, Bouda S, Schloetelburg C, Prinz T, Dionisio P, Anagnostopoulos S, Drougka I, Folkvord F, Drosatos G, Didaskalou S and the ThrombUS+ Consortium, Towards Wearable Continuous Point-of-Care Monitoring for Deep Vein Thrombosis of the Lower Limb. In: Jarm, T., Šmerc, R., Mahnič-Kalamiza, S. (eds) 9th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference. EMBEC 2024. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61628-0_36
Presented by Dr. Stelios Didaskalou, ThrombUS+ Project Manager
1. Let me start with this admission: this wasn’t meant to be a pecha kucha
This was meant to be a workshop, an open exchange of suggestions and questions
In order to help my colleagues and I with this idea we’re developing
Of providing the research community of Ghent University with their own D-I-Y
research quality assurance toolkit
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2. It’s not that we don’t have any experience with finding ways of assessing or
measuring the quality & impact of the research being done at our university
In Flanders we simply love our bibliometrics
And recently we have tried other approaches as well such as large-scale peer review
and self-assessment exercises
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3. But coming up with a flexible framework that fits the concepts and many approaches
of research quality assurance
That links up with the many relevant contexts
That respects our university’s stance on the DORA principles
And is feasible in terms of cost and staff involvement?
It often feels like a tall order…
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4. In essence what we are aiming to do is foster responsibility and trust among our own
policy level and within the research community
While avoiding getting caught up in a Kafkaesque limbo and number crunching
The idea is to provide research groups with the necessary tools and guidance to set
up their own research quality assurance, tailored to their specific make-up and needs
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5. Although Ghent University research has successfully managed to brew beer from
waste water and develop the best cacao for the tastiest chocolates
In this case we will not be reinventing the wheel
So enter the widely known model of quality assurance AKA the plan-do-check-act
cycle
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6. For the planning phase we will be providing research groups with an array of methods
through which they may be able to understand their current situation
And set out a strategy for improvement
These methods will be both quantitative as qualitative – from metrics & data to peer
advice
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7. Next is the do phase in which the research group allows the plan to be enacted
But also on our central level we need to set up both a way to gather all this data and
share the lessons learnt
As well as a way to offer guidance and training for joint concerns or underdeveloped
skills & knowledge
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8. So on the one hand we aim to put forward a modular framework – made up of a
number of broad intersecting topics – which I will list for you next
And from which the group can pick and choose for their personal snapshot
On top of this we will generate data sets from our institutional databases and provide
a catalogue of tools and expertise
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9. On to the first topic – scientific quality and impact
Our researchers are very well acquainted with bibliometrics because of the national
research policy climate of the past 15 years
We will provide tools such as InCites and leverage our in-house bibliometric expertise
But also look at less quantifiable approaches & approaches more relevant to social
science and humanities
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10. Our researchers have been less trained in recognising and assessing reach & societal
impact
Connecting up with our recent policy plan on that same topic we will continue to
invest in the education of our community
And offer tools such as Altmetric, relevant descriptors, case study templates, and
public engagement & science communication training
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11. Another recent hot topic is research integrity & ethics
As signatories of the ALLEA code, GDPR, and the Nagoya protocol we invest heavily in
sensitizing our researchers
In recognizing and setting up a work environment in accordance with these codes,
And in weeding out questionnable research practices
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12. Underlying and reinforcing integrity and ethics is the concept of open science
Ghent University is an active voice in the European debate on this topic
And is looking for ways to introduce specific rewards and incentives
Initiatives such as research data managers, DMP Online, a state-of-the-art repository,
and open access mandate provide a supportive context
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13. Another broad topic is internationalisation
Although research is an inherent international endeavour, strategically thinking about
which networks to be part of,
How to incorporate development cooperation into excellence
How to provide fitting support for international researchers
Is an exercise worthwhile doing
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14. As is assessing the diversity and gender balance of the research group
Against the backdrop of data and policy from Flanders and beyond – provided by our
policy units
Groups can benchmark their progress
Be more aware of implicit biases
and discover remedial measures
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15. The previous two topics tie in nicely with this one – HRM
A research group is of course a collection of people and people working in a
successfully managed supportive environment may produce excellent research
Our work related to the European label for HR Excellence in Research is in that sense
very relevant
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16. An essential part of managing a research group is mentoring and training the next
generation
In collaboration with the Doctoral Schools guiding documents such as a charter for
supervisors, a quality framework for doctoral training, and a network of
ombudspersons are available
Ghent University also invests in research into the mental wellbeing of junior
researchers
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17. Linked with this HRM and mentorship is the quality of leadership.
An element which we are also planning to incorporate into the newly developed
promotion criteria for professors
Finally, the overall vitality of the group is taken into account and set against the
institutional profile and mission
Also giving us a better insight into our strategic research areas
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18. As I’ve mentioned at the start this is still very much ‘work in progress’ but we can
already see some challenges ahead
Especially the cost for both the actual implementation of certain ideas
As the investment for central admin staff providing all this info and support
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19. Keeping the framework and tools agile is another demanding aspect as are finding
ways to spread the word across a large decentralised organisation
And providing an easy to use and discoverable platform to underpin the sharing of
knowledge
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20. Even at the start of this crazy idea we do believe there might be some merit in putting
some of the responsibility and power into the hands of our academics
If you have relevant insights or firsthand experience about this, come and find me for
a drink and a talk.
Thank you!
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