The Recognition and Rewards programme aims to establish a more balanced and modern approach to recognising and rewarding scientists. The movement towards more transparent and inclusive scientific research, Open Science, seamlessly complements this. 'Open Science practices can be measurable practices, such as the number of open access publications or pre-registration of a project, but you can also think of, for example, community engagement, or joining the editorial board of a diamond open access journal,' Dirk van Gorp (Chief Open Science Programme) and Jacqueline Drost (Recognition and Rewards programme manager) explain. The cooperation between the two programmes emphasises the importance of this movement.
Dialogue toolkit
This new project aims to enhance recognising and rewarding of Open Science practices, by developing a conversation toolkit that supports the dialogue on Open Science, for example, during annual reviews.
'Despite the different disciplines at the Radboud University, each with their own Open Science ambitions, we aim to stimulate academics in engaging in open and reflective dialogue about Open Science,' says Jacqueline Drost. 'The intention is to encourage academics, rather than imposing extra work,' Dirk van Gorp adds.
We're looking for you
We are looking for a project leader eager to take the next step in bringing Open Science into academic practice. Are you an academic researcher (post-doc/assistant professor) who is particularly interested in Open Science and feels the necessity of improving recognising and rewarding of Open Science? Please join our team and contact jacqueline.drost [at] ru.nl (Jacqueline Drost).