Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) Community Engagement Grant
The project targeting staff members was carried out at Kampala International University. Under the theme “Workshop for Research Managers and Coordinators at Kampala International University (KIU) on the Institutional Goals and Values of Responsible Research Assessment”, this project conducted a series of workshops for research managers, administrators, and academic leaders in KIU about the institutional goals and values of responsible research assessment in the university. It focused specifically on DORA’s vision, including DORA’s principles for institutions to implement a practical and robust approach to research assessment.
According to a statement from DORA, projects could be targeted to any level within an academic institution, including but not limited to reform efforts at the graduate program, department, library, or institution level, and should address one or more critical aspects of education, planning, implementing, training, iteratively improving, and scaling policies and practices.
Based upon the belief that “Research assessment reform is not a one-size-fits-all exercise”, the DORA community grants program meets academic institutions at their current stage of readiness for assessment reform and provides resources to improve the ways decisions are made that impact academic careers.
The program sought to support a broad range of ideas to promote assessment reform at academic institutions, including raising awareness of the need for change, developing new policies or practices, providing training to evaluators on practical strategies for responsible academic assessment, offering practical guidance to job applicants, and more.
- To call attention to new tools and processes in research assessment and the responsible use of metrics that align with core academic values and promote consistency and transparency in decision-making
- To aid development of new policies and practices for hiring, promotion, and funding decisions
- To spread research assessment reform broadly by working across scholarly disciplines and globally
- To call for broader representation of researchers in the design of research assessment practices that directly address the structural inequalities in academia
Staff were trained on research assessment for employment and promotion at KIU
Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) Community Engagement Grant
2022
This project receives funding under DORA
- PI – Assoc. Prof Chukwuemeka Diji
- Co-PI – Dr. Ademola Olaniyan
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