The Scholarship Values Summit

[Gavin (Gavin Taylor)]

Continuing the discussion from Ronin-IGDORE unconference?:

All OS&A forum users are invited to the Scholarship Values Summit!

This event is co-organized by Ronin Institute & IGDORE

This FREE virtual event will take place on Airmeet (online platform) during three Sessions from 14 to 16 September, 2021 (details below). You can register for each Session separately, but you are welcome to attend them all!

Description: This unconference provides a space for participants to identify harmful scholarship-related systems that no longer work, and to define shared values in scholarship as a basis for creating new healthier systems that are more supportive of scholarship goals.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Anyone who considers themselves a scholar or an ally to scholars.

WHAT TO EXPECT?: Unconferences are participant-centered. Therefore, we’ll have a mix of short seed talks to help us kick off, a schedule board that participants will use to list a topic they want to discuss, break out groups around proposed topics, collaborative writing and creating, reflection breaks, and informal time to chat and meet each other. See here for more information.

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SESSION 1 - 14 SEPTEMBER 3:00-5:30 PM US Eastern Time / 19:00-21:30 UTC

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Identify harmful systems in Scholarship

Goal: To identify the scholarship-related systems and actions that scholars participate in that lead to exploitation and harm.

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SESSION 2 - 15 SEPTEMBER 9:00-11:30 PM US Eastern Time / 01:00-03:30 UTC

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Propose shared values for Scholarship

Goal: To define and propose a set of values for scholarship that can help scholars begin to extract themselves from exploitative and harmful systems, and engage in efforts that align better with our values and our current socioeconomic and environmental context.

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SESSION 3 - 16 SEPTEMBER 9:00-11:30 AM US Eastern Time / 13:00-15:30 UTC

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Creating Change in Scholarship

Goal: Develop strategies for communicating and normalizing our stated values and proposed new systems.

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Register here!

[Gavin (Gavin Taylor)]

@IGDORE don’t forget to register to attend the Summit if you’d like to attend and haven’t registered already (the deadline for registration is next Monday, 13th).

If you are attending, please help us attract some attention to the summit by posting about it on your socials using #ScholarshipVS2021 hashtag! Or you can share the announcements from IGDORE’s Facebook and LinkedIn or Ronin’s Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Hope to see many of you at the Summit next week

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[sivashchenko (Stefaniia Ivashchenko)]

FOLLOW THE NUT #ScholarshipVS2021

[Gavin (Gavin Taylor)]

@arika.virapongse @alex.lancaster @Daniel-Mietchen and I are writing up summaries of the SVS2021 discussions (a bit late, but better late than never) and cross-posting them on the Ronin Blog and IGDORE Medium. Here is the summary of the first session.

What are harmful systems in scholarship?

What are harmful systems in scholarship? – Ronin Institute

[alex.lancaster]

yay!

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

Ronin Institute

[Gavin (Gavin Taylor)]

Just to make a bi-directional link: AIMOS 2021 (30 Nov - 3 Dec) - #4 by Gavin

Following on from some of the themes in the The Scholarship Values Summit, @Enrico.Fucci, @Wolfgang.Lukas, @Daniel-Mietchen, @arika.virapongse, @cooper and I will be hosting the following discussion group (1st session on Day 2):

Operationalizing value-driven research and identifying partners to support transformation in academia

Modern institutionalization of research and the influence of different stakeholders and intermediaries have reduced the role of shared values in research. In theory, norms and values express themselves in actions while, in practice, many academics find that aligning research practice with their values is challenging. Indeed, significant parts of academia have reached a stage where the current structures incentivize research practices that frequently stand in the way of academics accomplishing their core mission of generating, curating and sharing knowledge for the benefit of society and the world. Yet the rise of open science, citizen science, and independent scholarship all illustrate that alternative options exist for research to be performed across, or even outside of, academia. In this discussion, we will explore possibilities to systematically strengthen the expression of values in research workflows as well as how research-aligned communities outside formal academia can help drive and accelerate some of the necessary changes in the research ecosystem, including in academia. Some guiding questions will be:

• How do researchers currently put their own values into practice?
• How can research communities operationalize shared values in research?
• What support do reform movements inside mainstream academia require?
• How can independent institutes and other grassroots initiatives support reform movements across the research ecosystem?

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

This looks great Gavin! Shall we publicise this on social media as we did for our ScholarshipVS2021 event? Please let us know!

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

New blogpost by Rami Saydjari on the Ronin blog which mentions our SVS event. This may be of interest to many of our independent scholars! @arika.virapongse @alex.lancaster @johnpaulas @jon.f.wilkins

A newcomer’s perspective on joining the Ronin Institute – Ronin Institute

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

Great blog by @arika.virapongse @alex.lancaster @Daniel-Mietchen @Gavin on our SVS event last year! One more to come in this three-part series!

Our shared values as scholars – Ronin Institute

Our shared values as scholars

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

Final part of our three-blog series on last year’s Scholarship Values Summit. Many thanks to @arika.virapongse @alex.lancaster @Daniel-Mietchen @Gavin for writing this up, and to all those who had a part in organising ScholarshipVS2021!

Making change happen – Ronin Institute

Ronin Institute

[keithtse (Keith Tse (CL CStat))]

Now up on Medium:

Making change happen