3-dimensional team leadership & its requirements are described by Bradley Kirkman in his blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/12/01/3d-team-leadership/. The requirements are: 1) flexibility & adaptability to shift focus under changing circumstances ie to change & offer different approaches as needed, 2) switching behaviour to shift focus among team as whole, individuals in team & subteams, in any order, 3) ambidexterity to manage competing priorities, reconcile competing goals & make trade-offs, 4) emotional intelligence to support thought & action, & remain calm when dealing with tensions & unanticipated reactions and 5) authenticity to adhere to basic principles as situations change & remain comfortable with true self.
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Professor Gabriele Bammer
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Research School of Population Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
The Australian National University
62 Mills Road
Acton ACT 2601
+61 2 6125 0716
Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au>
@GabrieleBammer
http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn>
http://I2Insights.org
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6 strategies to implement interdisciplinary competencies for innovation are described by Colleen Knechtel in her blog post at: https://i2insights.org/2020/11/24/interdisciplinarity-and-innovation/. They are 1) recognise prior knowledge & skills through a growth mindset, 2) flip innovation pyramid to allow those with first-hand knowledge to drive change, 3) think inclusively & take relational responsibility to respect diversity, 4) transform ideas into action, 5) support micro-credentials & mini-qualifications, 6) use reflective practices of unlearning & reframing to be flexible & agile.
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Professor Gabriele Bammer
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Research School of Population Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
The Australian National University
62 Mills Road
Acton ACT 2601
+61 2 6125 0716
Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au>
@GabrieleBammer
http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn>
http://I2Insights.org
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Handbook of Public Research Funding: call for chapter contributions
Editors: Benedetto Lepori (USI, Lugano), Ben Jongbloed (University of Twente), Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech).
The Handbook of Public Research Funding will be published by Edward Elgar in Summer 2022; it will be a unique work providing a thourough discussion of the dynamic landscape of public funding for research.
The handbook will a) provide a theoretical understanding of public research funding from different disciplinary perspectives, such as studies of political science and public administration, economics and innovation, management and organization, as well as social studies applied to science, b) review the state of the art on key issues around public research funding, such as the impact of performance-based funding, how resources are allocated within research organizations and how different grant allocation systems work and c) highlight emerging directions of research and related open questions to be addressed by future research.
More than 15 distinguished scholars have already committed to contribute to the handbook, covering dimensions such as the design of policies for research funding, the working of grant systems, researchers’ strategies, impacts on careers and gender issues in research funding.
This call aims a) to fill in a number of gaps concerning topics not yet fully covered by the current contributions and b) to consider proposals for innovative topics that might open new directions of research in the field.
Priority topics
The following topics will be prioritized in the call.
* the policy mix of funding instruments and conceptualization of types of funding instruments in a comparative perspective.
* the organizational architecture of public research funding, including specifically the role of research funding organizations.
* the role of large research organizations, and particularly universities, in distributing public funding, and their responses to changing funding environments (including changing budgeting systems within universities).
* the impact of public research funding for scientific innovation and breakthroughs, economic development and societal challenges, respectively how changing funding environments and funding approaches might affect these impacts.
Other proposals will be considered to the extent they do not overlap too much with already foreseen chapters.
Chapters should have a broad scope and provide a theoretical understanding of the topic, reviewing the state of the art and highlighting directions for future research and open questions. Empirical evidence will be welcome, but purely empirical contributions will not be considered. Length will be 6,000 to 8,000 words.
Submission
Proposals should be submitted before 31.12.2020 to the editors (blepori(a)usi.ch<mailto:blepori@usi.ch>; dhicks(a)gatech.edu<mailto:dhicks@gatech.edu>; b.w.a.jongbloed(a)utwente.nl<mailto:b.w.a.jongbloed@utwente.nl>) including a title, author(s) affiliations, 1-page summary and key references.
Answers will be provided by late January 2021, while draft chapters will be due by May/June 2021.
How transdisciplinary research needs to engage with paradoxical tensions is discussed by Faye Miller in her blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/11/17/navigating-paradoxes/. Three key steps are 1) identifying paradoxical tensions, eg opposing dualities such as holism/reductionism, & reframing them as critical spaces to innovate, 2) moving from either/or to both/and thinking to envision how conflicting elements might co-exist & to validate differing perspectives, 3) navigating through paradoxes to workable certainty, negotiated understanding & creative actions. In your experience how can focusing on paradoxical tensions as a transdisciplinary method develop shared understanding?
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Professor Gabriele Bammer
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Research School of Population Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
The Australian National University
62 Mills Road
Acton ACT 2601
+61 2 6125 0716
Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au>
@GabrieleBammer
http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn>
http://I2Insights.org
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On November 17, Ohio State is hosting Daniel Goroff from the Sloan Foundation to talk about Corporate-Academic Partnerships. All welcome:
https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VdKtzmM7S3Os61bI8DUHLw
Caroline Wagner
[The Ohio State University]
Caroline S. Wagner, PhD
Wolf Chair in International Affairs
John Glenn College of Public Affairs Battelle Center for Science & Engineering Policy
Page Hall 210U, 1810 College Road N, Columbus, OH 43210
6142927791 Office / 614-206-8636 Mobile
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Buckeyes consider the environment before printing.
Dear Friends,
A group of us has put together an update on international collaboration on COVID-19 research. I am sharing the abstract below. The full draft preprint can be found at SSRN:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3729672
International Collaboration During the COVID-19 Crisis: Autumn 2020 Developments by Xiaojing Cai, Caroline V. Fry, Caroline Wagner :: SSRN<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3729672>
After the initial shock of the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, international collaboration in COVID-19 research continues to show aberrant pattern
papers.ssrn.com
Abstract
After the initial shock of the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, international collaboration in COVID-19 research continues to show aberrant patterns compared to coronavirus research in pre-COVID times. The most affected nations tend to produce the greatest number of coronavirus articles, with output closely coupled to the rate of infection. COVID-19 research has fewer nations and smaller teams than pre-COVID research, a trend which intensifies during the pandemic. The United States remains the single largest contributor to the global publication output, but contrary to China’s dominance in the initial months of the pandemic, China’s contribution falls as the national COVID-19 caseload drops. China-USA collaborations drop as the pandemic continues, perhaps due to China’s reduced rate of publication on the topic, and perhaps due to political obstacles, or a combination of these factors.
[The Ohio State University]
Caroline S. Wagner, PhD
Wolf Chair in International Affairs
John Glenn College of Public Affairs Battelle Center for Science & Engineering Policy
Page Hall 210U, 1810 College Road N, Columbus, OH 43210
6142927791 Office / 614-206-8636 Mobile
wagner.911(a)osu.edu<mailto:wagner.911@osu.edu> / http://glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu<http://http//glenn.osu.edu/faculty/glenn-faculty/wagner/.osu.edu>
Pronouns: she/her/hers / Honorific: Professor
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Buckeyes consider the environment before printing.
Hi everyone,
We here at the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) are
hosting a potentially interesting webinar on Nov. 18, described below.
Please register if you're so inclined, and forward to any relevant
people/lists.
thanks,
-Dan Meisler, IRIS
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Title: Tracking the Career Outcomes of Research-Funded Employees with IRIS
Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1 p.m. ET
Presenter: Kevin Bjorne, IRIS Technical Director
Description:
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) has
significantly improved its ability to track the career outcomes of
employees who have worked on university-based sponsored research projects.
Working with Atlanta-based data provider Steppingblocks, the new IRIS
Employee Report can show the locations, industries and companies in which
research-funded employees find jobs after they leave an IRIS member
university.
The new report contains fine-grained information on the outcomes for
several types of university employees, such as undergraduate students,
post-docs, faculty and staff.
Registration: http://myumi.ch/AxRzd
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Dan Meisler, Communications Specialist
Institute for Research on Innovation and Science
734.647.3587 (office)
734.223.5857 (cell)
iris.isr.umich.edu
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Free science is here and growing fast
By David Wojick
Most of my readers are interested in science. Many of my blog articles are scientific and these are often followed by lengthy technical discussions in the comments. Some of my scientific articles have had thousands of comments; one was over 5,000 when comments were closed. And there are many other blogs like this.
Thanks to the miracle of online commenting the discussion of science, especially related to policy, is now a major popular pastime.
The good news is that the scientific community is responding big time to this extensive popular interest. We are in the midst of a huge wave of activities designed to make the latest science available to everyone who is interested in it, free of charge.
Here are just a few great examples:
Open access (OA). This term refers to various ways to make journal articles freely available. This is a serious challenge because journals have mostly been paid for via expensive subscriptions, usually by rich university libraries. Total cost is estimated at over ten billion dollars a year. People with no connection to a major school have no access to the journals, which publish well over two million technical articles a year.
The most common form of open access is the author pays model, called Gold OA. The author, actually typically the research grant, pays the cost of publication so the article is free to all. There are now many OA journals, as they are called, funded entirely by author pays. Some are huge, called mega journals, publishing tens of thousands of free articles a year. In addition, many subscription journals offer their authors an OA option, for a price.
Repositories for articles. Many universities host what is called a repository, where their faculty deposits their published journal articles, which are then freely available to all. If the article is in a subscription journal there is typically a waiting period before it becomes open, usually 12 months from the date of publication. This is called Green OA.
By far the biggest system of repositories is hosted by the US Government, under the Public Access Program. Every journal article that flows from federal funding, in whole or just in part, must be deposited by the author. If it is OA then it becomes freely available immediately; if subscription then after 12 months. This includes well over 100,000 articles a year. I helped develop this program. There are also subject matter repositories.
Given the huge number of published articles it can be challenging to find the right stuff. By far the best free service for doing this is Google Scholar. It provides full text search for millions of articles in tens of thousands of journals, often going back 60 years or more. There is a powerful advanced search window that supports all sorts of specialized searches. Click on the three horizontal bars in the upper right to get the window. Repository copies are often listed and unlike Google the number of hits listed is real information about how much research has been done,
Preprint servers. Here authors post their draft articles before submitting them to a journal. Given that it can take years to get published this is a good place to find the latest science. I recently did a piece based on a preprint. Most journals allow preprints and some even use these servers for article submission. In some cases the preprints are never submitted, making them another form of communication. A great many new preprint servers have recently been created. To my knowledge there is as yet no combined search service for these proliferating servers.
Speaking of other forms than the journal article, some federal agencies publish the final report from their funded research projects. These reports tend to be much longer than journal articles, often ten times longer, so they contain a wealth of information. Many of these reports can be found using the Science.gov portal, which I also worked on.
In turn, Science.gov is part of a global science search system that includes many national systems, called WorldWideScience.org. This global system features a unique translation algorithm that searches repositories in other languages. I helped develop the WWS.org system and the translation feature was my idea. It searches hundreds of millions of pages of science and engineering.
In short there are a huge number of science and engineering research results that are freely available to the world with more coming on. Finding just what you need can be time consuming but a lot of people are working on that as well.
A grand revolution in scientific communication is upon us. Go for it.
Please share this.
David
Key attitudinal, behavioral & cognitive issues that influence interdisciplinary collaborations are described by Stephen Fiore in his blog post at https://i2insights.org/2020/11/10/interdisciplinary-collaboration-issues/. Avoid disciplinary disdain, arrogance, apprehension, ignorance, myopia & multilingualism. Foster disciplinary tolerance, benevolence & naivety.
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Professor Gabriele Bammer
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Research School of Population Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
The Australian National University
62 Mills Road
Acton ACT 2601
+61 2 6125 0716
Gabriele.Bammer(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Gabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au>
@GabrieleBammer
http://i2s.anu.edu.au<http://www.anu.edu.au/iisn>
http://I2Insights.org
CRICOS Provider # 00120C
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