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🎡 New preprint 🎡

We’re *SUPER* excited to share 🌟 The Academic Wheel of Privilege 💫 which an equity-based tool for authorship order.

Authorship order is often treated as a technical or administrative detail. But it is also tied to recognition, promotion, prestige, & career opportunity. When authorship decisions are framed as “neutral”—for example through convention, alphabetization, or randomization—they may still reproduce existing inequities rather than correct them.

https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/af4nk_v1

Mar 9 at 5:31pmWeb
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Authorship in academia often decides who is hired, funded or celebrated. Current authorship order methods like randomised or alphabet author lists are not equitable. (see: https://forrt.org/awop)
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This framework includes (https://forrt.org/awop):

🎡 Customisable app + user guide
đź’­ Reflection questions
🎓 Case study on first-gen academics
â›” Examples of academic privilege & disadvantage
đź“„ Extended bibliography
đź“š đź“š Syllabus covering 14 key DEIA topics for long-term learning

Resources: https://osf.io/pfxqb/overview

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The first version of the Academic Wheel of Privilege (Elsherif et al. 2022) gained a lot of traction and social media attention! We considered feedback and consulted a diverse group of experts to make it robust, ethical, and more useful to the wider community. 100+ experts gave 30+ reviews đź’š
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Though mainly guiding authorship decisions, the AWoP has wider use cases: our materials can help teams discuss positionality and understand each others' perspectives and experiences as part of general team wellbeing.
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Let us know if you use the #AcademicWheelOfPrivilege in your authorship teams or in other academic contexts!

You can also follow along for updates on the Academic Wheel of Privilege on FORRT’s:
Website: https://forrt.org/awop
Slack Channel: https://forrt.slack.com/archives/C03UNM4KD7E

Academic Wheel of Privilege (AWoP)

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Show threadKreskennMar 9
@FORRT the doi link doesn't work, at least for me :\
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@kreskenn Can you try again, I changed the link to the full URL.
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@FORRT it works, thanks !