This is the newsletter from the online ‘Recognition & Rewards’ platform. Dutch Dear colleague, Soon, the time will come for us to take to the stage together. Hopefully that will fit. In the spirit of team science, it’s certainly fitting. During the Recognition & Rewards Festival ‘Taking the stage’ on 12 November in Amersfoort, everyone who holds Recognition & Rewards close to their heart wi...
Education must be given the same respect as research within knowledge institutions. Thanks to the R&R movement, opportunities to redress inequalities are growing, including through the facilitation of career paths with an emphasis on teaching. We share three examples of teaching career paths at three different institutions: the University of Groningen (RUG), Erasmus University (EUR) and the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH). Steffen Er...
Zo kan de 'peer review' radicaal anders Gemaakt én gecontroleerd door wetenschappers, dat is het kwaliteitsstempel waarmee wetenschappelijke kennis steevast ter wereld komt. Maar achter de schermen rommelt het: zo betrouwbaar is dat stempel allang niet meer. Een internationale groep academici – deels onder Nederlandse vlag – wil het helemaal anders doen Door Maarten Keulemans Illustraties Fien Jorissen de Volkskrant Elke dag krijgt hij er ...
THEMED SESSION 2 --> REGISTER At the core of every PhD trajectory is academic research. However, in practice PhD candidates do much more–they are involved in education, supervision, outreach, policy advice, setting up networks with societal partners, and maintaining Open-Science infrastructures, to mention just a few examples. Many of these activities appear high on the strategic agendas of universities, but they are rarely officially recognis...
THEMED SESSION 1 --> REGISTER The so-called ‘Strategy Evaluation Protocol’ (SEP for friends) is a unique Dutch approach to research evaluation at the level of research institutes. It prescribes how universities periodically have to evaluate themselves in their own context. In this interactive session three experienced evaluators unpack the workings of the SEP in the light of Recognition & Rewards. The underlying principles and evaluation crit...
THEMED SESSION 3 --> REGISTER Changing policies and career frameworks is only one part of strengthening the recognition and reward of university teaching. The success of these reforms ultimately rests on how they are experienced by theacademic community. Drawing on findings from three waves of the Teaching Cultures Survey, this session willexplore some of the key drivers of cultural change and the factors that appear to shape academics’ exper...
