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

eLife

Sarvenaz Sarabipour¹  Yaw Bediako²  Devang Mehta³  Andy Tay⁴  Julia L Riley⁵  Carolina Paz Quezada⁶  Shyam M Saladi⁷  Vinodh Ilangovan⁸  Hedyeh Ebrahimi⁹  Florencia Fernández-Chiappe^1,10  Tracey Weissgerber^1,11  Charlotte M de Winde^1,12 

[1] Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States;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 Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa;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;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: DOAJ

【 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.

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