Join our co-creation workshop to recognise quality, reliability and Team Science
📅 Thursday 5 June 2025, 9:30-15:30
📍 Floor 7 Seminar Room A/B, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London
The culture of “publish-or-perish” creates a perverse incentive for researchers and research teams. They often lack the time and resources to focus on what matters for quality and reliability. Instead, publish-or-perish incentivises them to produce as many journal articles as possible.
That culture is bad for researchers, universities and wider society. It is particularly bad for researchers from marginalised and underrepresented groups.
How can we nurture a more progressive and inclusive culture? How can we recognise and incentivise the things that matter for quality?
As part of the university-wide Beyond Open Research project, we’re co-creating a practical framework to embed quality, reliability and Team Science into research assessment and recognition. As a signatory to DORA (the Declaration on Research Assessment), Imperial is committed to moving past journal-related metrics in research assessment, hiring and promotions decision. What can we replace those metrics with?
We’re pleased to have our expert facilitator Dr Elizabeth Gadd (University of Loughborough) (https://lizziegadd.wordpress.com/) at this workshop. Lizzie is Vice-chair of CoARA (the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment – https://coara.eu/) and Chair of the INORMS Research Evaluation Group (https://inorms.net/). She’s one of the leading lights in the field of research assessment, so we hope you will join us to benefit from this rare opportunity to work directly with her.
Who should take part?
Academics, researchers (PIs to PhDs), university Professional, Technical and Operational staff, and more. If you are involved in research, assessment and promotions decisions, this is most definitely for you.
Why join?
Explore how the SCOPE framework (https://inorms.net/scope-framework-for-research-evaluation/) can transform research assessment. We’ll be using SCOPE to design a practical approach to evaluating research processes.
📢 We can’t do this alone. We need your voice in the room!
Register your interest to secure your place by 27 May