More about the campaing
Implementing change
We submitted written evidence to the UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Research Integrity. Our evidence was published in October 2017. Please feel free to use/modify this letter to try to implement change in your respective networks.
We work to develop best practices and we provide this feedback for restructuring academia (e.g., ASAPbio peer review meeting), for research (e.g., Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle by Research Information Magazine and for assessment (e.g., National Environment Research Council Early Career Researcher survey).
We amplify other early career researcher voices by endorsing their efforts (e.g., the Bratislava Declaration folks are providing feedback for the European Union Framework Programme 9 and #BulliedIntoBadScience signed their position statement).
We give talks to increase awareness (e.g., OpenCon (scroll to 1:35:49), OpenConCam (here's the blog post), eLife's #ECRwednesday).
Press coverage
Some press coverage about the #BulliedIntoBadScience campaign:
- Campaigning for change: Bullied Into Bad Science, eLife Magazine, 14 September 2017.
- Bullied into going national: Early career researchers are taking initiative, PLOS ECR Community, 1 September 2017.
- What actions can we take to push for publishing reform and incentivise open publishing practices?, PeerJ Blog, 14 July 2017.
- Academics strike back against bad science, The Times (requires free registration), 1 July 2017. [pdf]
- Cambridge researchers fight back against ‘bad science’, The Varsity, 1 July 2017.
- Campaign launched against ‘exploitative academic publishing system’, 8 Jun 2017.
Interact
Get involved with the campaign. Whe have a Google Group and a Facebook Page to discuss and exchange ideas with other members of the campaing or to simply stay updated.
Who
- Dr Corina Logan, Leverhulme Early Career Researcher, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
- Dr Laurent Gatto, Senior Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- Dr Ross Mounce, Open Access Grants Manager Arcadia Fund
- Dr Adrian Currie, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
- Dr Stephen Eglen, Reader, Department of Applied Mathmatics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Funding
