GYA Members at the 2023 Tsukuba Conference
Several GYA members actively participated in the 2023 Tsukuba Conference, facilitated through GYA alumna and former GYA EC member Yoko Shimpuku (Hiroshima University, Japan) The purpose of the Tsukuba Conference is to bring together future shapers beyond all borders to facilitate discussion among them. It provides them with the opportunity to express their vision of […]
4th GYA professional development workshop for at-risk scholars
The fourth GYA professional development workshop for at-risk scholars was held in September at Wolfson College, University of Oxford with 22 participants: early- to mid-career scientists and scholars based at universities in the UK. The in-person workshop, aiming to support career development and professional skills in a new academic context, was conceptualised and run by […]
Young Scientists at Lindau Nobel Meeting 2023
Three GYA members participated in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, held in June 2023. GYA alumni Suraj Bhattarai (Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Nepal) and Huanyu Cheng (Pennsylvania State University, USA) had been selected as in-person participants from among GYA nominees in 2020, and their participation was postponed due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. New GYA […]
GYA represented in European Coalition on Reforming Research Assessment
In September 2022, the GYA became an early signatory of the European Commission’s “Reforming Research Assessment Agreement” and with this, joined the “Coalition on Reforming Research Assessment” CoARA. CoARA is an initiative of the European Commission, Science Europe and the Association of European Universities, aiming at reforming the way that researchers and scientific excellence are assessed. […]
3rd Professional development workshop for at-risk scholars
The third GYA professional development workshop for at-risk scholars was held from 9 – 11 September, hosted at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. The in-person workshop, aiming to support the career development of outstanding early-career at-risk scholars and scientists, was conceptualised and run by the GYA At-Risk Scholars Initiative, in cooperation with the Young Academy of Scotland […]
GYA releases joint statement on EU Council conclusions on research assessment and open science
The GYA, along with the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association, the International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA) and the Young Academy of Europe, have released a Joint Statement on the Council of European Union conclusions on Research Assessment and Open Science. The EU Council’s recent […]
Workshop on Research Assessment with ALLEA – Report published
In November 2020, GYA alumni Boon Han Lim (Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia) and Martin Dominik (University of St Andrews, UK) as members of the GYA working group on Scientific Excellence, together with ALLEA, jointly organised an online workshop entitled “Research assessments that promote scholarly progress and reinforce the contract with society”. A workshop report […]
GYA signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
During its General Assembly on 10 June 2020, the Global Young Academy signed DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. DORA is a global initiative that aims to reform the way in which scientific research is evaluated. Currently, most research assessment is based on quantitative metrics that have been shown to be fundamentally flawed, […]
Engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded
Members from the GYA working group on Measuring Excellence in Science Engagement have published an article on “Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded” in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Based on a survey which the group conducted the authors find that science engagement and teaching are perceived to be societally beneficial, […]