@karenstroobants.bsky.social
Director at CultureBase - Vice-Chair of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment
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📢 Register for the 5th Helsinki Initiative webinar (8 December) on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with presentations by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social, @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Andre Brasil!
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📢 Register for the 5th Helsinki Initiative webinar (8 December) on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with presentations by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social, @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Andre Brasil!
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
More information and registration: www.helsinki-initiative.org/en/events/5t...
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A helpful reminder from @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Frances Downey of why improving research culture is needed and the work that PCE plans are building on
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
REF 2029 must honour call for culture change - Research Professional News
Lobbying for the status quo ignores decade of evidence, say Karen Stroobants and Frances Downey
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A helpful reminder from @karenstroobants.bsky.social and Frances Downey of why improving research culture is needed and the work that PCE plans are building on
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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We’re co-developing a Good Practice Exchange (GPEx) for research and innovation culture with the community – and we want your input!
Have your say in our survey👉
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul...
⏰Closes 10 August 2025
Have your say in our survey👉
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul...
⏰Closes 10 August 2025
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We’re co-developing a Good Practice Exchange (GPEx) for research and innovation culture with the community – and we want your input!
Have your say in our survey👉
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul...
⏰Closes 10 August 2025
Have your say in our survey👉
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul...
⏰Closes 10 August 2025
Great to be joining today’s King’s College Research Culture Symposium, looking forward to a great line up of talks and to get inspired to continue contributing to improving #ResearchCulture in 2025 #ResearchAssessmrnt #ReformingRA
January 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Great to be joining today’s King’s College Research Culture Symposium, looking forward to a great line up of talks and to get inspired to continue contributing to improving #ResearchCulture in 2025 #ResearchAssessmrnt #ReformingRA
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Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025
Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for:
✅ Virtual symposia
✅ In-person panels
✅ Talks & posters
⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025
🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for:
✅ Virtual symposia
✅ In-person panels
✅ Talks & posters
⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025
🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals - Metascience
The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.
metascience.info
December 12, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025
Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for:
✅ Virtual symposia
✅ In-person panels
✅ Talks & posters
⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025
🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for:
✅ Virtual symposia
✅ In-person panels
✅ Talks & posters
⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025
🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
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Warmest congratulations to the new CoARA Steering Board, particularly to Chair Henk Kummeling (Coimbra Group) & Vice-Chair @karenstroobants.bsky.social (MCAA)! And a big thanks to @rianneletschert.bsky.social & outgoing members
Looking forward to continuing to work towards fair #ResearchAssessment!
Looking forward to continuing to work towards fair #ResearchAssessment!
December 10, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Warmest congratulations to the new CoARA Steering Board, particularly to Chair Henk Kummeling (Coimbra Group) & Vice-Chair @karenstroobants.bsky.social (MCAA)! And a big thanks to @rianneletschert.bsky.social & outgoing members
Looking forward to continuing to work towards fair #ResearchAssessment!
Looking forward to continuing to work towards fair #ResearchAssessment!
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Brilliant AI primer from Linda Raftree at #Revaluation24 but it’s driving me insane that she’s having to hold her own head mike battery pack cos the tech is built for men. 😡
December 6, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Brilliant AI primer from Linda Raftree at #Revaluation24 but it’s driving me insane that she’s having to hold her own head mike battery pack cos the tech is built for men. 😡
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More of this, please.
TLDR 1) Rankings are inadequate to help us understand what a ‘good’ HEI looks like;
2) HEIs’ main function is their epistemic responsibilities,
3) Provides 3 tools to enable HEIs to realise their epistemic responsibilities. 👍🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
TLDR 1) Rankings are inadequate to help us understand what a ‘good’ HEI looks like;
2) HEIs’ main function is their epistemic responsibilities,
3) Provides 3 tools to enable HEIs to realise their epistemic responsibilities. 👍🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Development of practical tools to realize the epistemic responsibilities of universities: a co-design study
University rankings have strongly influenced the values, practices, and policies universities adopt to be considered good universities. Thinking in terms of epistemic responsibilities (ERs) of univ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:54 AM
More of this, please.
TLDR 1) Rankings are inadequate to help us understand what a ‘good’ HEI looks like;
2) HEIs’ main function is their epistemic responsibilities,
3) Provides 3 tools to enable HEIs to realise their epistemic responsibilities. 👍🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
TLDR 1) Rankings are inadequate to help us understand what a ‘good’ HEI looks like;
2) HEIs’ main function is their epistemic responsibilities,
3) Provides 3 tools to enable HEIs to realise their epistemic responsibilities. 👍🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New Paper! “Understanding the social and political dimensions of research(er) assessment: evaluative flexibility and hidden criteria in promotion processes at research institutes”, just published in Research Evaluation by me, @naubertbonn.bsky.social & Serge Horbach. Thread below!
December 5, 2024 at 11:22 AM
New Paper! “Understanding the social and political dimensions of research(er) assessment: evaluative flexibility and hidden criteria in promotion processes at research institutes”, just published in Research Evaluation by me, @naubertbonn.bsky.social & Serge Horbach. Thread below!
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Fantastic & dynamic session on forgotten questions in research assessment reform at REvaluation 2024! - led by @karenstroobants.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social & @naubertbonn.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Fantastic & dynamic session on forgotten questions in research assessment reform at REvaluation 2024! - led by @karenstroobants.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social & @naubertbonn.bsky.social
Should research assessment reform be ‘as aligned as possible, as diverse as needed’?
Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.
Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.
💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 3 – Can global reform efforts be diverse and aligned?
👩💻Karen Stroobants #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchEnvironments
👩💻Karen Stroobants #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchEnvironments
Unanswered questions in research assessment 3 – Can global reform efforts be diverse and aligned?
Reflecting on the diversity of global research assessment reform movements, Karen Stroobants calls for reform that is ‘as aligned as possible, but as diverse as necessary’. Discussing how different…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 4, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Should research assessment reform be ‘as aligned as possible, as diverse as needed’?
Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.
Read the last piece in this series developed in conversation with awesome women in research evaluation: @lizziegadd.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn, Claire Fraser, Haley Hazlett & Anna Hatch.
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💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 2 – Can we apply the scientific method to research assessment?
👩💻Noémie Aubert Bonn & Haley F. Hazlett #AcademicSky #Metascience #ResearchAssessment
👩💻Noémie Aubert Bonn & Haley F. Hazlett #AcademicSky #Metascience #ResearchAssessment
Unanswered questions in research assessment 2 – Can we apply the scientific method to research assessment?
Noemie Aubert Bonn and Haley Hazlett discuss the importance of applying scholarly standards to research assessment reform efforts and the value of creating space for experimentation, transpare…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 4:04 PM
💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 2 – Can we apply the scientific method to research assessment?
👩💻Noémie Aubert Bonn & Haley F. Hazlett #AcademicSky #Metascience #ResearchAssessment
👩💻Noémie Aubert Bonn & Haley F. Hazlett #AcademicSky #Metascience #ResearchAssessment
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At REvaluation 2024 in Vienna presenting Science Europe's Shared Values Framework as a means to help capture better 'how' research is done rather than only 'what' research is done as part of assessment processes. #CoARA. With @karenstroobants.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn & Sean Sapcariu
December 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM
At REvaluation 2024 in Vienna presenting Science Europe's Shared Values Framework as a means to help capture better 'how' research is done rather than only 'what' research is done as part of assessment processes. #CoARA. With @karenstroobants.bsky.social Noémie Aubert Bonn & Sean Sapcariu
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Are we all metascientists now? Slides from my talk today at REvaluation 2024 www.revaluation2024.eu in Vienna rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... #REvaluation24 @rorinstitute.bsky.social #metascience
Are we all metascientists now? James Wilsdon talk at REvaluation Conference, Vienna, 4 December 2024
In this opening talk at the REvaluation 2024 conference, James Wilsdon (RoRI & UCL) describes the changing landscape for metascience in research, policy and practice -- across academia, funding organi...
rori.figshare.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Are we all metascientists now? Slides from my talk today at REvaluation 2024 www.revaluation2024.eu in Vienna rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... #REvaluation24 @rorinstitute.bsky.social #metascience
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Current situation: awaiting a flight to Vienna and the REvaluation conference where Karen Stroobants, Noemie Aubert-Bonn and I will be discussing exactly this! Let the conversation begin. 😊
December 2, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Current situation: awaiting a flight to Vienna and the REvaluation conference where Karen Stroobants, Noemie Aubert-Bonn and I will be discussing exactly this! Let the conversation begin. 😊
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I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last year in conversation with some fabulous female global research assessment leaders discussing some forgotten questions in research assessment. The first of these is published on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd question some existing approaches. Here they discuss how reform efforts may need to reconsider the usefuln…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last year in conversation with some fabulous female global research assessment leaders discussing some forgotten questions in research assessment. The first of these is published on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
👩💻 @lizziegadd.bsky.social & Claire Fraser #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchAssessment
👩💻 @lizziegadd.bsky.social & Claire Fraser #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchAssessment
Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd question some existing approaches. Here they discuss how reform efforts may need to reconsider the usefuln…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM
💥New: Unanswered questions in research assessment 1 – Whose values lead value-led approaches?
👩💻 @lizziegadd.bsky.social & Claire Fraser #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchAssessment
👩💻 @lizziegadd.bsky.social & Claire Fraser #AcademicSky #ResearchCulture #ResearchAssessment