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Target Audience: All staff and postgraduate researchers involved in leading, conducting or supporting research

This is a live, on-campus event with an option for hybrid participation.  

Join us for an expert panel discussion of the key priorities for promoting responsible research assessment in UK universities and beyond! 

Responsible research assessment is about recognizing, rewarding and encouraging the diverse outputs, practices and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research. It means that assessments about the quality of research should be fair and transparent. Examples of this include judging a research output based on peer review rather than based on the journal it is published in and taking into account the goals and ambitions of the researcher or research group when measuring their performance. 

With Strathclyde’s membership of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and the recent establishment of a UK CoARA National Chapter, this is a timely opportunity to hear from and engage with sector experts who are at the heart of work to promote and support these approaches in the UK and globally. Covering a range of interesting perspectives, speakers will include: 

• Professor Stephen Curry, Imperial College London – Former Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and co-author of Harnessing the Metric Tide and the Changing Role of Funders in Responsible Research Assessment. 
• Dr Neil Jacobs, UK Reproducibility Network – Head of the UKRN Open Research Programme, a five-year Research England initiative to improve training, recognition and reward for transparency in research. 
• And more… 

Whether you are an experienced research leader, early-career researcher, technician or professional services staff member, this event will be an excellent opportunity to better understand the ‘big picture’ when it comes to practices, expectations and plans around responsible research assessment in the UK. 

There will also be a networking lunch offered after the panel discussion, providing an opportunity to meet other Strathclyde and external participants.

This event will be open to colleagues across the sector in the interests of knowledge sharing and collaboration. To support this, the event will be hybrid – for online attendance, please register on the Eventbrite page. 

Course Outcomes/Objectives

• Understand what responsible research assessment is and what it looks like in practice. 
• Learn more about the potential directions of future developments towards systemic reform of research assessment. 

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff: 

• Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble. 
• Hybrid provision is available. For online attendance, please register on the Eventbrite page.  
• There will be optional audience participation through discussion and Q&A. 
• You are asked to attend the whole session. 
• There will be no break during the panel discussion (1.5hr), but this is followed by a lunch break of an hour. 
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.  
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants after delivery as standard. 
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements. 

Prerequisites