The Reformscape database is designed to inspire university leaders by collecting examples of responsible career assessment. A new online resource brings together universities’ research-assessment and career-development policies to help the academic community make hiring, promotion and tenure procedures fairer, more robust and more diverse. Read more in Nature.
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Judgement day
Many governments are assessing the quality of university research, much to the dismay of some researchers. Two years ago, academics at Lancaster University, UK, found themselves in the uncomfortable position of being graded. They each had to submit the four best pieces of research that they had published in the previous few years, and then […]