TY - JOUR
T1 - Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice
AU - Kent, Brianne A.
AU - Holman, Constance
AU - Amoako, Emmanuella
AU - Antonietti, Alberto
AU - Azam, James M.
AU - Ballhausen, Hanne
AU - Bediako, Yaw
AU - Belasen, Anat M.
AU - Carneiro, Clarissa F.D.
AU - Chen, Yen Chung
AU - Compeer, Ewoud B.
AU - Connor, Chelsea A.C.
AU - Crüwell, Sophia
AU - Debat, Humberto
AU - Dorris, Emma
AU - Ebrahimi, Hedyeh
AU - Erlich, Jeffrey C.
AU - Fernández-Chiappe, Florencia
AU - Fischer, Felix
AU - Gazda, Małgorzata Anna
AU - Glatz, Toivo
AU - Grabitz, Peter
AU - Heise, Verena
AU - Kent, David G.
AU - Lo, Hung
AU - McDowell, Gary
AU - Mehta, Devang
AU - Neumann, Wolf Julian
AU - Neves, Kleber
AU - Patterson, Mark
AU - Penfold, Naomi C.
AU - Piper, Sophie K.
AU - Puebla, Iratxe
AU - Quashie, Peter K.
AU - Quezada, Carolina Paz
AU - Riley, Julia L.
AU - Rohmann, Jessica L.
AU - Saladi, Shyam
AU - Schwessinger, Benjamin
AU - Siegerink, Bob
AU - Stehlik, Paulina
AU - Tzilivaki, Alexandra
AU - Umbers, Kate D.L.
AU - Varma, Aalok
AU - Walavalkar, Kaivalya
AU - de Winde, Charlotte M.
AU - Zaza, Cecilia
AU - Weissgerber, Tracey L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Kent et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Early career researchers (ECRs) are important stakeholders leading efforts to catalyze systemic change in research culture and practice. Here, we summarize the outputs from a virtual unconventional conference (unconference), which brought together 54 invited experts from 20 countries with extensive experience in ECR initiatives designed to improve the culture and practice of science. Together, we drafted 2 sets of recommendations for (1) ECRs directly involved in initiatives or activities to change research culture and practice; and (2) stakeholders who wish to support ECRs in these efforts. Importantly, these points apply to ECRs working to promote change on a systemic level, not only those improving aspects of their own work. In both sets of recommendations, we underline the importance of incentivizing and providing time and resources for systems-level science improvement activities, including ECRs in organizational decision-making processes, and working to dismantle structural barriers to participation for marginalized groups. We further highlight obstacles that ECRs face when working to promote reform, as well as proposed solutions and examples of current best practices. The abstract and recommendations for stakeholders are available in Dutch, German, Greek (abstract only), Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Serbian.
AB - Early career researchers (ECRs) are important stakeholders leading efforts to catalyze systemic change in research culture and practice. Here, we summarize the outputs from a virtual unconventional conference (unconference), which brought together 54 invited experts from 20 countries with extensive experience in ECR initiatives designed to improve the culture and practice of science. Together, we drafted 2 sets of recommendations for (1) ECRs directly involved in initiatives or activities to change research culture and practice; and (2) stakeholders who wish to support ECRs in these efforts. Importantly, these points apply to ECRs working to promote change on a systemic level, not only those improving aspects of their own work. In both sets of recommendations, we underline the importance of incentivizing and providing time and resources for systems-level science improvement activities, including ECRs in organizational decision-making processes, and working to dismantle structural barriers to participation for marginalized groups. We further highlight obstacles that ECRs face when working to promote reform, as well as proposed solutions and examples of current best practices. The abstract and recommendations for stakeholders are available in Dutch, German, Greek (abstract only), Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Serbian.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85134648107
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001680
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001680
M3 - Article
C2 - 35797414
AN - SCOPUS:85134648107
SN - 1544-9173
VL - 20
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
IS - 7
M1 - e3001680
ER -