Journal Club for Diversity and Responsible Research and Innovation (DRIVERS)

The Journal Club for Diversity and Responsible Research and Innovation (DRIVERS)* meets online on the first Monday of every month at 11:00 a.m. to critically discuss selected literature on diversity and RRI, paying particular attention to how these topics intersect, and to the role of research assessment and its reform.

Jointly led by colleagues from NeuroCure, the Einstein Center for Neurosciences (ECN), the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), and the BIH QUEST Center, DRIVERS brings multiple perspectives to the discussion.

We warmly invite you to join us and contribute your views! We strongly recommend that participants read the paper in advance. Those who regularly participate in the Journal Club can receive a certificate of participation. Please contact us for further information.

On Monday, November 4, we will discuss:

Peer Review Perpetuates Barriers for Historically Excluded Groups, O.M. Smith, et al., 2023

Link to the event:

https://zoom.us/j/95761653396?pwd=MGZ6RkYyS1JVV0pKc2tOelJ4b292dz09

Meeting-ID: 957 6165 3396

Kenncode: 487086

Upcoming events:

Dec. 2 - The gendered nature of independence in the context of research funding and excellence, H. Schiffbaenker, et al., 2022

The DRIVERS Journal Club team:

René Bernard (Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure, Value and Open Science)
Katharina Grauel (Einstein Center for Neurosciences, Career Development)
Fabian Hempel (BIH QUEST Center, Incentives and Responsible Research Assessment)
Karin Höhne (BIH, Equal Opportunity and Diversity)
Miriam Kip (BIH QUEST Center, Incentives and Responsible Research Assessment)
Kimberly Mason (Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure, Equal Opportunity and Diversity)

*DRIVERS is an expansion of the former Diversity Journal Club, jointly run by NeuroCure, ECN and the BIH.

DRIVERS Archive

Diversity in German science: researchers push for missing ethnicity data, H. Boytchev, 2023

Diversified innovations in the health sciences: Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS), G. Stadler, 2023

A matter of time? Gender and ethnic inequality in the academic publishing careers of Dutch Ph.D.s, A. Mulders, 2024

Harassment as a consequence and cause of inequality in academia: A narrative review, S. Täuber, 2022

fiddle: a tool to combat publication bias by getting research out of the file drawer and into the scientific community, R. Bernard, 2020

Global and Local Research Excellence in Africa: New Perspectives on Performance Assessment and Funding, R. Tijssen and J. Winnink, 2022

Responsible Research, Inequality in Science and Epistemic Injustice: An Attempt to Open up Thinking about Inclusiveness in the Context of RI/RRI, S. Koch, 2020

The Science and Value of Diversity: Closing the Gaps in Our Understanding of Inclusion and Diversity, T. Swartz, et al., 2019

Diversity Journal Club Archive

If we use the strength of diversity among researchers we can only improve the quality and impact of our research, A. Bell, et al., 2023

Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas, Y. Yang, et al., 2022

The cost of social influence: Own-gender and gender-stereotype social learning biases in adolescents and adults, S. Cunningham, et al., 2023

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science, T. Amano, et al., 2023

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations, F. Liu, et al., 2023

Women Quotas vs. Men Quotas in Academia: Students Perceive Favoring Women as Less Fair Than Favoring Men, M. K. Zehnter and E. Kirchler, 2020

Policy proposals to promote inclusion of caregivers in the research funding system: a call for change, I. L. Torres, et al., preprint

Hochschulabsolvent/innen mit Migrationshintergrund am Übergang in die Promotion, S. Neumeyer und Irena Pietrzyk, 2020

Tokenism Revisited: When Organizational Culture Challenges Masculine Norms, the Experience of Token Is Transformed, C. Holgerson and L. Romani, 2020

Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough, L. Babcock, et al., 2022
Why four scientists spent a year saying no, A. E. Cravens, et al., 2022

Citation bias, diversity, and ethics, K. S. Ray, et al., 2022

Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia, Chap 6. “Gender Bias in Peer Review Panels”, F. Jenkins, et al., 2022

What Got You Here, Won’t Help You There: Changing Requirements in the Pre- Versus the Post-tenure Career Stage in Academia, S. K. Rehbock, et al., 2021