BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251025T152020EDT-0379uC7UjV@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251025T192020Z DESCRIPTION:Monday\, December 12th\, 2022\n\nIn person event:\n 2001 91ºÚÁÏÍø College Avenue\, room 1140\n\n12:00-13:00 Seminar and Q&A\n 13:00-13:15 Bre ak with pizza\n 13:15-14:30 Workshop\n\n\n Open to graduate students and pos tdocs\n Apply the RQ+ framework to your own research project\n\n\nSeminar D escription:\n\nAs the Anthropocene dawns\, and as pandemic-intensified ine qualities amplify\, it is necessary and essential that high quality resear ch and innovation inform our way forward. This seminar will raise a call t o action for researchers and research institutions\, including universitie s and their communities of students\, staff\, and leaders. In short\, what counts as ‘high quality research’ must be re-imagined and re-built if it is to flourish in the emerging reality of the Anthropocene\, and if it is to rectify – not exacerbate – spiraling social inequities and environmenta l crises. The way we govern scientific progress can at times be more harmf ul than helpful. Many approaches to research evaluation underpin and ampli fy inequities in how science is conducted\, and the way it serves people a nd planet.\n\nAs a possible way forward\, this seminar will outline the Re search Quality Plus (RQ+) approach. Developed and field tested at the Inte rnational Development Research Centre\, RQ+ is a framework for holistic re search evaluation that has helped to cultivate and reward research that br eaks paths to sustainable development and is derived from the overlooked e xperience of the Global South.\n\nThis seminar will outline the three tene ts of RQ+ that embody a stark contrast to the standards embraced in the hy per-competitive sphere of Northern science systems. The first tenet of RQ+ suggests that context matters to any research endeavor. Research does not occur in a vacuum\, and neither should its valuation and reward. The seco nd tenet suggests that research quality is a multi-dimensional construct t hat should be connected to the objectives and values of those enabling\, i mplementing\, and impacted by the work. The third suggests that research q uality cannot be determined by peer opinion alone\, no matter how expert t hat opinion may be. Instead\, research quality must be measured through th e comparison and balance of multiple sources of empirical evidence\, just like research.\n\nIn this light\, RQ+ offers a practical response to a piv otal moment in global development and in research governance. It is an alt ernative that might connect research and innovation with planetary health and sustainable development in the age of the Anthropocene.\n\nWorkshop De scription:\n\nGraduate students and postdocs are invited to join a discuss ion-based workshop where they will learn to apply different components of RQ+ to their research. In pairs and guided by Robert\, participants will d iscuss how they are dealing with different contextual factors and quality dimensions in their own projects. Participants will come away with new ide as about how to strengthen the lesser valued aspects of research projects that RQ+ shines light on within their own work.\n\nStudents and postdocs a t all stages in their research will benefit from this workshop\, as long a s they have conceptualized their project and begun designing it. The only prerequisite is that participants come with a project in mind that they kn ow and can speak about.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nRobert McLean is a Senior Progr am Specialist in Policy and Evaluation at Canada’s International Developme nt Research Centre (IDRC) and concurrently a Fellow of the Integrated Know ledge Translation Research Network (IKTRN) at the Ottawa Hospital/Universi ty of Ottawa. Rob has worked in government\, private\, and NGO sectors and has published research and invited commentary in venues ranging from Natu re to the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He is author of the new book\ , Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Public Good published by Routledge\, NYC. He is co-editor of the book Transforming Research Excellence: New Ide as from the Global South\, published by African Minds. Both books freely a vailable in open access in English\, French and Spanish.\n\nRob earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Medicine at Stellenbosch University\, South Af rica\, and completed postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada. He holds an M.Sc. from the Global Development Instit ute of the University of Manchester\, England\, and two undergraduate degr ees following studies at Carleton University\, Canada and the University o f KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa.\n\nRegistration\n DTSTART:20221212T170000Z DTEND:20221212T193000Z LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G1\, Dept Equity\, Ethics and Policy\, 2 001 91ºÚÁÏÍø College Ave\, room 1140 SUMMARY:Evaluating research differently URL:/equity-ethics-policy/channels/event/evaluating-re search-differently-343910 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR