🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟
▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations
Introductory course on responsible research assessment, just published by #SFDORA
https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/
The free and self-paced course "aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices."
Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/
Three strategic pillars 👇
One of 11 guiding principles:
Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices
It’s 55 outcomes, 25 impact, 20 SPRE (which is replacement for PCE) (Strategy, People and Research Environment)
Now he’s into the balance between excellence and environment (the crucial issue), but he’s short on detail. Now there’s a panel which I hope will enlighten us.
Currently watching Patrick Vallance trying to reassure us in the continued importance of (and support for) basic research (bucket one). Wondering what is coming next.
#REF2029 #research #HigherEducation #UKResearchandInnovation #BucketOne
Registration has now closed but if you were lucky enough to get a ticket to join Kevin from @openbookcollect & Tom Grady from Opening the Future at the ALN webinar next week, expect an incendiary session 🧨
📆 12 June @ 10 AM
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish #OpenAccess with no #REF2029 mandate
The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole point of having REF panels? As Jisc consults on that question, four writers offer their views
News from the @DORAssessment page:
Brief report about a project aimed to test the effectiveness of multimedia formats for educating researchers about scholarly metrics
https://sfdora.org/2025/04/07/introducing-two-educational-videos-on-the-h-index-the-pedagogical-potential-of-multimedia-for-teaching-about-scholarly-metrics/
The team used multiple strategies to develop content and format of the videos. I found it an interesting brief read for the planning of educational resources.
If you have not heard about problems with the #hIndex: Another reason to watch. #AcademicChatter
Centre for Population Change
Jan R. Boehnke
Luke
Wilfred Mijnhardt
COPIM
Professor Katharine Adeney