1.8 Recognizing supporting roles

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• • Johan van de Worp
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  Here you can read a summary from this workshop (with thanks to the reporter for making it):

  Jeroen Bosman and Jeroen Sondervan told the participants about the Open Science program of Utrecht University. One of the goals of this program is bridging the gap between academic and non-academic staff. At Utrecht University they developed the Triple model and asked themselves how they can apply this on the support staff:

  • hybrid teams with academic and support staff.
  • hybrid functions.
  • remove distinction from systems, procedures etc.
  • hybrid careers.

  Then Shauna Ní Fhlaithearta told us about the organisation of data stewardship at Wageningen University.

  After both presentations we created a survey for everyone at the festival about the recognition of the support staff. We had to come up with (closed) questions for this survey. There were a few tables:

  A. Supporting role identities.

  B. Hybridity/ team science nature of roles.

  C. Career experience/ development.

  D. Current Challenges/ barriers and practical issues experienced.

  E. Including supporting roles in the Recognition & Rewards movement.

  One of the topics we discussed was that it should be easy to have different roles in an organisation, for example a combination of an academic role and a support role. Also, the career development should be easier, from an academic career to a support career and vice versa. To make this possible there are some things in the system that needs to change. For example, it should be easier in the UFO-system to have a hybrid role. Both the supervisor and HR play an important role in these changes. They have to start the conversation with their employees about these subjects and support the possibility of a hybrid career.

  
• • Claartje Chajes (Communitymanager RRview)
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  @jeroenbosman, do you allready have the results of the survey? Would it be possible to share them with us?

  
• • Claartje Chajes (Communitymanager RRview)
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  @stefanievrancken, @joepverheggen, @floravanlangendonck, @femketrommels, @martateperek, @danrudmann, @celinerichard, @estherplomp, @grytsjevandermeer, @verenaly, @chantalvanlitsenburg, @siccodeknecht, @ellenjonkeren, @jeroenjansen, @parrhesiastic, @jacquelineheijen, @jeroengeurts, @marileendogterom, @mariacruz, @evelinebraber, @anoukbosman, @sanderbosch, @sannealblas we hope you've enjoyed the workshop. If you want to share your take away with us, don't hesitate!

  
• • Jeroen Bosman
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  During this workshops at the 2023 edition of the Recognition & Rewards festival we addressed the issue of recognition and rewards for support staff [see workshop slides on Zenodo]. Together with the participants in the session we designed and built a survey on the topic and disseminated it among the afternoon festival participants. Today, for the sake of transparency, we share preliminary results directly from the Qualtrics software. It is based on 64 responses, and at this moment has no further analysis and interpretation. In a later stage we do intend to post a discussion of the results and add some thoughts on furthering the subject of support staff R&R. Please note that the survey was primarily an experiment to create an impromptu survey during a pressure cooker session and a means to discuss the topic focusing on what we do not yet know. The results should be interpreted with that in mind. Please also account for the fact that the sample of researchers and support staff at the festival and those with access to the RRview platform is a very skewed subset of all researchers and support staff. The results, including some technical facts, are in the slide deck linked below. On behalf of the entire workshop team, Jeroen Bosman

  

  Jeroen Bosman added a new document

  Recognising_supporting_roles__Survey_results.pdf (PDF, 1.39 MB)

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