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The sanctity and resilience of the global scientific community have never been more crucial. This report addresses the urgent need to protect scientists, academics, and educational institutions increasingly targeted in various global crises.
Shake up reward and recognition of academic researchers
A radical shake-up in how academic researchers are recognised and rewarded is urgently required to remove roadblocks preventing a more diverse range of early career researchers from advancing into academia.
The current methods of research assessment overvalue outputs and ignore how the research is done and thereby threaten research integrity, according to findings presented to a session of the 2021 annual conference of the European University Association (EUA) on 22 April.
Noémie Aubert Bonn, a post-doctoral researcher at Hasselt University in Belgium and Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands, investigated recognition and rewards of academic career profiles with Professor Dr Wim Pinxten for her PhD project.