On June 1, 2022, the HuMetricsHSS Initiative partnered with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to bring together the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows and the DORA Community Engagement Grant Awardees to share knowledge and strategies on their respective—but interconnected—areas of work.…
Enacting Values of Co-authorship
The publication of the “Walking the Talk” report required intentional practices of co-authoring to enact the values of the HuMetricsHSS team.
Workshop: Values-Based Evaluation at Duke University
As part of our second phase of work on the HuMetricsHSS initiative, and with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the HuMetricsHSS team has been building out a more robust full-day workshop intended to help institutions work through…
No Quality without Equity
In October 2019, I attended a three-day workshop on Driving Institutional Change for Research Assessment Reform jointly convened by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) on the beautiful HHMI campus in Chevy Chase, Maryland. My time with the 60…
Recognizing Peer Review
In June of 2018, I held a short workshop about the HuMetricsHSS initiative with colleagues attending the 2018 Summer Seminar – East gathering of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages that was meeting at Michigan State University. Paula Winke,…
Recapping the Third HuMetricsHSS Workshop: Valuing and Evaluating Annotation
In November 2018, the HuMetricsHSS team gathered for our third workshop on values and research impact metrics. This workshop examined the role of annotations as a scholarly indicator. The purpose of the first day of deliberations was to understand what…
Examining the Syllabus as Scholarly Object: What Can We Learn about Values from This Teaching Tool?
Workshop participants Melinda Weinstein and Leigh Graves Wolf work alongside HuMetricsHSS co-PIs Chris Long and Nicky Agate at this month’s workshop on syllabi Earlier this month, scholar–educators and the HuMetricsHSS team came together at Michigan State University to better understand…
Valuing the Syllabus as Scholarship: A Workshop
Yesterday, literary and digital studies scholar Mark Sample tweeted out “So, @safiyanoble’s Algorithms of Oppression came out yesterday, I got my copy today, and it’s on my syllabus for Monday.” This tweet offers a great example of the cultural relevance…
On “The Value of Values” Workshop, Part 1
During the 2016 TriangleSCI, the HuMetricsHSS team spent a lot of time making lists. Lists of scholarly objects, large and small. Articles, books, syllabi, annotations, editions, committee minutes, e-mails, and blog posts. We even grappled with how to represent the…
HuMetricsHSS: Can (Should) We Develop Humane Metrics for the Humanities?
This post was originally written by Adriel Trott, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Wabash College and participant in the HuMetricsHSS “The Value of Values” (#hssvalues) workshop. It reflects her experiences of the event. We’ve cross-posted this from Adriel’s blog, with her…