Speaker
Description
This workshop designed for Early Career Researchers (ECR) and students focus on research assessment and the work of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). It is based on the observation that current research assessment relies on quantitative indicators and often misses to acknowledge the wide array of contributions made by researchers. In a world café like setting we will discuss first the state of play with the aim to determine when researchers are evaluated and what are the forms of evaluation. We will particularly highlight the case of students and ECR, accounting for international variations and also bringing out the explicit and the implicit forms of assessment. In a second part, the propositions of reforms and the work of CoARA will be examined. We will confront it with participants' ideas with the intention to foster a rich conversation.
About:
Magali Weissgerber (she/her) works at the German Institute for Integrative Biodiversity Research as a postdoctoral researcher. Her main research topics are land-use changes, ecosystem restoration and rewilding. She has been involved in local, national, and European NGOs advocating for better living and working conditions for early career researchers since 2018. She is currently a general board member of Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers.
