Workshop ‘Credit, diversity, and research quality in science’

ABSTRACT

Prof. Joshua Shepherd, who will become an ICREA Research Professor in May 2023, will be hosting the workshop entitled ‘Credit, diversity, and research quality in science’.

This workshop will address credit assignment in science – who gets credit for which discoveries and achievements – and how credit assignment impacts and is impacted by [a] collaboration, [b] assessments of research quality, and [c] issues of diversity, equality, and inclusion.

DATE: April 15, 2023

FORMAT: Hybrid (register for zoom link, or to indicate physical attendance)

LOCATION: Artchimboldi (C/ Rosselló, 231, 2^nd Floor, Barcelona)

SCHEDULE:

09:30h – 09:45h              Introductions and Coffee

09:45h – 11:00h              Katie Plaisance and Sara Doody (Waterloo),

What “Counts” as Good Science? Reflections from Scientists & Engineers about their Collaborations with Philosophers of Science

11:00h – 11:15h              Coffee break

11:15h – 12:30h              Hannah Rubin (Missouri),

Structural Causes of Citation Gaps

12:30h – 14:30h              Lunch (on site)

14:30h – 16:00h              Panel discussion

HOST:

• Joshua Shepherd (Carleton/UB)

DISCUSSANTS:

• Megan Peters (UC-Irvine),
• Adeel Razi (Monash),
• Sahba Besharati (Witwatersrand),
• Rafaella Margutti (UC-Berkeley),
• Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)

HOSTS/PIs:

Rafaella Margutti (UC-Berkeley) and Joshua Shepherd (Carleton/University of Barcelona)

FUNDED BY:

CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) Catalyst grant (‘Discovery, re-discovered’)

To register: e-mail joshualshep@gmail.com, and indicate on-line or in-person (space is limited)