1.10 The Alternative C.V: What should it look like?

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  • Claartje Chajes
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Claartje Chajes
R&R festival 2023
  • Johan van de Worp

Chris Hartgerink, Daan Rutten
Liberate Science GmbH

An academic Curriculum Vitae seems an indispensable overview to obtain an impression of research quality and to assess it. The question is if the academic C.V. is still compatible with current developments in academia, such as new principles of Open Science and Team Science. The conventional academic C.V. tends to reproduce closed science and to favor old hierarchies and preferences, such as individual success and length (e.g., long publication lists). In this workshop, we engage participants to creatively construct alternatives. Would it be possible to reshape the form of the C.V. in a way which renders it more open, inclusive and content-related? What kind of signifiers or markers can we find, use and collect to establish an academic C.V. that embraces Open Science? What would we love to be able to say but don’t right now?

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1 comment, 24 April 2023
  • Here you can read a summary from this workshop (with thanks to the reporter for making it):

    The session was about “designing” a CV in a very visual way. We were asked to start with a brainstorm in post-it notes and write down anything that we could think of that could be interesting to know (from a recruitment standpoint) or to share (from a candidate perspective). That resulted in a wide range of topics that could be included in a CV. Interesting was that we all experienced that starting to think from this fresh/blank perspective was refreshing and made us all rethink the standards we generally adhere to. We than were asked to visualize the alternative CV based on the topics we came up with. The time was too short to come up with a final design, but the speakers will send us a wrap up afterwards.

    What are the main take aways of this session?

    We concluded that this way of creating a CV can be beneficial in that in create space for new ways of looking at CV’s and their purpose. However, one should take into account that this way of working fits some people but not all. One can argue that creativity becomes a competence measured instead of the content of the CV.

    Johan van de Worp

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