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Month: February 2017

Published on Leave a comment on Mechanisms for Increasing Capacity in Sex and Health Research
A recent article in The Lancet discusses structural mechanisms that can increase the capacity for integrating gender and sex into health research. See http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30343-4/fulltext?rss=yes. While the focus of this article describes the "four structural mechanisms used by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research across various funding opportunities to build capacity for improvement of sex and gender integration in health research," the mechanisms may be adaptable to other contexts and be relevant for universities seeking an integrated approach.
As described in the article's abstract, the four structural mechanisms are: 
  1. Mandatory reporting of sex and gender integration for all research applications.
  2. Requirement for research teams to include a sex and gender champion, defined as a person showing sex and gender expertise related to the topic under study through graduate training, current research, or publication track record. Sex and gender champions are responsible for ensuring that sex and gender is an integral component of project rationale, experimental design, methods, analysis, and knowledge translation.
  3. Inclusion of a cross-cutting sex and gender platform within large research consortia. The platform aims to ensure that relevant sex and gender research questions will be studied across all research initiatives. The role of the platform leaders is to consult with the different research teams to provide guidance to each team for incorporation of sex and gender in design and analysis strategies.
  4. Mandatory completion of sex and gender online training modules by principal applicants. Applicants are required to provide proof of completion of at least one of three online training modules developed by the Institute of Gender and Health: sex and gender in biomedical research, sex and gender in research involving primary data collection in humans, and sex and gender in the analysis of human data.
Incorporating the mechanisms into University practices would likely require the support of senior Administrative leaders, resources (human and financial), as well as a cultural shift in awareness of the importance of sex and gender--indeed all types of diversity--into all human research projects. It is interesting to think about how these mechanisms could be embedded into the GW research community. What are your ideas and thoughts?

Published on Leave a comment on C3@GWU Seminar Alert: Gender and Team Science

Creating a Culture of Collaboration at George Washington University (C3@GWU) presents

Gender & Team Science: Improving Effectiveness of Research Teams

DATE: Thursday, March 30, 2017

LOCATION: National Churchill Library & Center, Gelman Library 1st floor

TIME: 10:00am-11:00am

Light Refreshments will be served.

Examining gender issues in team science is critical from the perspective of advancing and facilitating actions at the organizational level.  Organizations can set goals for improving the diversity, capacity, and quality of human capital by creating a more responsive, effective and efficient research environment for people to develop and work. This presentation will review the literature related to gender and team science, with a focus on evidence-based policy implications designed to guide how research institutions can improve the processes and practices that affect how science is conducted.

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, is the Vice President, Strategic Alliances with Elsevier’s Global Academic Relations group where she is involved in initiatives focused on promoting women in STEM fields and around data to examine issues related to gender inequality in research.  In her previous roles as the Director of the Office of Research Development and office of Research Team Support & Development at Northwestern University, she facilitated collaborative research initiatives with a special interest on approaches to gender parity in scientific collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Through her leadership with the Annual Science of Team Science Conference, Dr. Falk-Krzesinski has been instrumental in developing a strong community of practice for team science and presents on various team science- and gender-related topics around the world.

Published on Leave a comment on Three New Valuable Resources for Team Science Research and Training

You can now access three new resources through the C3@GWU website under the resources tab.

Science-of-Team-Science Mendeley Group Forum: A collaborative forum and extensive reference library to promote cross-disciplinary and inter-professional knowledge transfer around team science, scientific collaboration, and the science of team science research, a powerful evidence-base for effective practices.

 

Team Science Toolkit: An interactive website to help you support, conduct and study team-based research


COALESCE: CTSA Online Assistance for Leveraging the Science of Collaborative Effort Solutions to complex problems in the sciences require teams of specialists from diverse backgrounds working across the boundaries of disciplinary silos. The COALESCE project aims to create, evaluate, and disseminate new, durable, readily accessible on-line learning resources to enhance skills needed to perform transdisciplinary, team-based translational research. Diverse audiences, including senior investigators, junior investigators, and institutional development officers can benefit from tools designed to help envision how transdisciplinary collaboration can work and overcome the inevitable communication challenges that arise when working in multidisciplinary teams. All content presented in the modules is grounded in empirical research and theory about the science of team science (SciTS), and the experts interviewed are well-published in that domain. The four modules are intended to help researchers acquire and apply a basic knowledge of team science. Modules 2-4 afford an experiential learning environment where the researcher can adopt different roles and engage virtually in the challenges of team research.

 

Published on Leave a comment on Gender in the Global Research Landscape Report Symposium

 

Critical issues related to gender disparity and bias must be examined by sound studies. Drawing upon its high-quality global data sources and analytical expertise, Elsevier is developing a comprehensive new report, Gender in the Global Research Landscape, as an evidence-based examination of the outputs, quality, and impact of research worldwide through a gender lens and as a vehicle for understanding the role of gender within the structure of the global research enterprise. The report covers 20 years, 12 geographies and 27 subject areas, providing powerful insight and guidance on gender research and gender equality policy for governments, funders and institutions worldwide.

Join us on March 31st in Washington, DC for a report symposium featuring an overview of key findings and a broader expert discussion of the importance of an evidence base to address gender inequality and gender research.

The presentation and networking reception are open to the public at no charge, but registration is required. This event is sponsored by Elsevier.

Find out more and Register at:

https://www.elsevier.com/promo/research-intelligence/gender-report

Featured Speakers

Rita Colwell, PhD, Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland at College Park (Keynote)

Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment and Professor of History of Science at Stanford University

Linda Sanford, Former Senior Vice President, IBM Corporation

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, Vice President for Strategic Alliances, Global Academic Relations, Elsevier

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