Posts tagged research policy
What are we doing to make journals publishing more inclusive?
What are we doing to make journals publishing more inclusive?

Last year, the SAGE Journals team released a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pledge using a framework from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity. The pledge aims to ensure that SAGE’s identity, values, and animating principles such as our guaranteed independence and our mission of building bridges to knowledge, are incorporated into our DEI work. In this blog post, Martha Avtandilian, Publisher for SAGE's Social Science Journals division and lead of the Research Pillar's Application Stream, and Jessica Lipowski, Publishing Editor on the STM Journals Editorial team, reflect on our DEI pledge for SAGE Journals a year in and looks ahead to new goals to create more inclusive journals publishing at SAGE.

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Research Publishing, DEI, Company newsChris BurnageDEI Publishing, research policy, Journals
Research on Research Institute Launches
Research on Research Institute Launches

Unfortunately the residual effects of some significant surgery this summer prevented me from attending the recent launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRi). This initiative has the laudable aim of better informing funders and policymakers about “how research is funded, practiced and evaluated, and… how research cultures and systems can be made more efficient, open, inclusive and impactful.” It is receiving significant support from the Wellcome Trust and Digital Science “to build an international consortium of funders, academics and technologists committed to transformative & translational RoR.”

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Research MethodsChris BurnageRobert Dingwall, Research on Research Institute, research policyComment