Workshops

A major part of our work involves holding one-day workshops at various institutions across the United States and internationally, bringing together stakeholders from academia writ-large.

By reshaping norms of practice and measurement at various levels within an institution, we can reshape the culture of higher education to be more humane, supportive, and just.

Our workshops are designed to step participants through a process to reflect on their core values as scholars, administrators, and academic staff, and to identify tools and indicators to transform their daily work and reward the ways in which their daily work is already transformative. By reshaping norms of practice and measurement at various levels within an institution, we can reshape the culture of higher education to be more humane, supportive, and just.

What distinguishes the HuMetricsHSS initiative from other approaches to research evaluation is our focus on process:

1. You begin by identifying your core values as a scholar;
2. You acknowledge the full range of your scholarly practices;
3. You reflect on how your values are or could be embodied in your work;
4. You take what you have learned and use it to transform your practice where necessary, and you document your successes and failures.

The goal of the process is to empower you to tell a more textured story of the full range of your scholarship, so that your living up to your values is recognized and (hopefully) rewarded. To this end, faculty and staff are not the only audience our workshops include — we also go through this process with administrators, including those involved in promotion and tenure, intervening on multiple levels so that these stories are not only told but also listened to.

To date, we have held the following workshops:

Values-Based Evaluation, New York Humanities Corridor, September 16th, 2024 [held virtual]
Values-Enacted Leadership, University of Oregon, August 12 and 15th, 2024
Values-Based Evaluation, Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, January 24, 2024
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Santa Cruz, September 18-19, 2023
Breaking the MOLD, University of Maryland, College Park, August 15-16, 2023
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Washington, April 17-19, 2023
Values-Based Evaluation, Drexel University, April 4, 2023
Re-envisioning Scholarship, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), March 10, 2023 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Maryland, January 19-20, 2023
Re-envisioning Scholarship, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), January 11 and 13, 2023 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Washington, November 28, November 29 - December 2nd, 2022
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Maryland, April 28-29, 2022
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Alberta, April 11, 2022 [held virtual]
Make Metrics Meaningful: Impact Challenge Kickoff Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, March 28, 2022 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, Imagining America, March 2, 2022 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, Global Platform Governance Network, May 26, 2021 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Maryland College of Arts & Humanities, May 13-14, 2021 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, European University Institute, April 29-30, 2021 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, ACLS HEB, April 27, 2021 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Michigan, May 22, 2020 [held virtual]
Values-Based Evaluation, University of Iowa, February 21, 2020
Values-Based Evaluation, Duke University, January 16–17, 2020
Valuing and Evaluating Annotation, Michigan State University, November 29–30, 2018
Valuing the Syllabus as Scholarship, Michigan State University, March 1–2, 2018
The Value of Values, Michigan State University, October 5–7, 2017

For presentations that members of our team have given at other conferences, see our Presentations page.

Since the onset of COVID-19, we are of course unable to hold these workshops in person. We are still holding them virtually, however, facilitated by members of our team, and we've also put together a Workshop Guide that you can use to walk your own department, cohort, or institution through our process. If you have any questions about the Guide or about our work in general, please don't hesitate to contact us.