Mitigating the impact of conference and travel cancellations on researchers’ futures

eLife

Vinodh Ilangovan¹  Shyam M Saladi²  Carolina Paz Quezada³  Devang Mehta⁴  Andy Tay⁵  Julia L Riley⁶  Sarvenaz Sarabipour⁷  Florencia Fernández-Chiappe⁸  Charlotte M de Winde⁹  Hedyeh Ebrahimi^1,10  Tracey Weissgerber^1,11  Yaw Bediako^1,12 

[1] Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Option, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States;Centro Integrativo de Biología y Química Aplicada, Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Santiago, Chile;Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada;Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa;Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States;Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina;MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom;Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran;QUEST – Quality

[2]  Ethics

[3]  Open Science

[4]  Translation, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institutes of Health, Berlin, Germany;Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States;West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana;

关键词: early-career researchers;    COVID-19;    conferences;    research assessment;    science funding;    travel;   

DOI  :  10.7554/eLife.57032

来源: publisher

【 摘 要 】

The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions, it is important to recognize that some of our actions may disproportionately affect early-career researchers and scientists from countries with limited research funding. We encourage all conference organizers, funders and institutions who are able to do so to consider how they can mitigate the unintended consequences of conference and travel cancellations and we provide seven recommendations for how this could be achieved. The proposed solutions may also offer long-term benefits for those who normally cannot attend conferences, and thus lead to a more equitable future for generations of researchers.

【 授权许可】

CC BY