BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260611T233403EDT-6662M5pVxd@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260612T033403Z DESCRIPTION:Monday\, December 12th\, 2022\n\nIn person event:\n 2001 McGill College Avenue\, room 1140\n\n12:00-13:00 Seminar and Q&A\n 13:00-13:15 Bre ak with pizza\n 13:15-14:30 Workshop\n\nOpen to graduate students and postd ocs\n Apply the RQ+ framework to your own research project\nSeminar Descrip tion:\n\nAs the Anthropocene dawns\, and as pandemic-intensified inequalit ies amplify\, it is necessary and essential that high quality research and innovation inform our way forward. This seminar will raise a call to acti on for researchers and research institutions\, including universities and their communities of students\, staff\, and leaders. In short\, what count s as ‘high quality research’ must be re-imagined and re-built if it is to flourish in the emerging reality of the Anthropocene\, and if it is to rec tify – not exacerbate – spiraling social inequities and environmental cris es. The way we govern scientific progress can at times be more harmful tha n helpful. Many approaches to research evaluation underpin and amplify ine quities in how science is conducted\, and the way it serves people and pla net.\n\nAs a possible way forward\, this seminar will outline the Research Quality Plus (RQ+) approach. Developed and field tested at the Internatio nal Development Research Centre\, RQ+ is a framework for holistic research evaluation that has helped to cultivate and reward research that breaks p aths to sustainable development and is derived from the overlooked experie nce of the Global South.\n\nThis seminar will outline the three tenets of RQ+ that embody a stark contrast to the standards embraced in the hyper-co mpetitive sphere of Northern science systems. The first tenet of RQ+ sugge sts that context matters to any research endeavor. Research does not occur in a vacuum\, and neither should its valuation and reward. The second ten et suggests that research quality is a multi-dimensional construct that sh ould be connected to the objectives and values of those enabling\, impleme nting\, and impacted by the work. The third suggests that research quality cannot be determined by peer opinion alone\, no matter how expert that op inion may be. Instead\, research quality must be measured through the comp arison and balance of multiple sources of empirical evidence\, just like r esearch.\n\nIn this light\, RQ+ offers a practical response to a pivotal m oment in global development and in research governance. It is an alternati ve that might connect research and innovation with planetary health and su stainable development in the age of the Anthropocene.\n\nWorkshop Descript ion:\n\nGraduate students and postdocs are invited to join a discussion-ba sed workshop where they will learn to apply different components of RQ+ to their research. In pairs and guided by Robert\, participants will discuss how they are dealing with different contextual factors and quality dimens ions in their own projects. Participants will come away with new ideas abo ut how to strengthen the lesser valued aspects of research projects that R Q+ shines light on within their own work.\n\nStudents and postdocs at all stages in their research will benefit from this workshop\, as long as they have conceptualized their project and begun designing it. The only prereq uisite is that participants come with a project in mind that they know and can speak about.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nRobert McLean is a Senior Program Spe cialist in Policy and Evaluation at Canada’s International Development Res earch Centre (IDRC) and concurrently a Fellow of the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network (IKTRN) at the Ottawa Hospital/University of Ottawa. Rob has worked in government\, private\, and NGO sectors and has p ublished research and invited commentary in venues ranging from Nature to the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He is author of the new book\, Scal ing Impact: Innovation for the Public Good published by Routledge\, NYC. H e is co-editor of the book Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas fro m the Global South\, published by African Minds. Both books freely availab le in open access in English\, French and Spanish.\n\nRob earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Medicine at Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\, and completed postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Insti tute in Canada. He holds an M.Sc. from the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester\, England\, and two undergraduate degrees fo llowing studies at Carleton University\, Canada and the University of KwaZ ulu-Natal\, South Africa.\n\nRegistration\n DTSTART:20221212T170000Z DTEND:20221212T193000Z LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G1\, Dept Equity\, Ethics and Policy\, 2 001 McGill College Ave\, room 1140 SUMMARY:Evaluating research differently URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/evaluating-research-diffe rently-343910 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR