Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Webinar Series: Navigating a Collaborative Research Career in Academia
The traditional format of scientific CVs, focused on comprehensive lists of publications and presentations, makes it challenging to convey the time, skills and outputs required in engaged research, failing to serve the many researchers pursuing science that serves society. In the second webinar of our series on Navigating a Collaborative Research Career in Academia, we’ll hear from experts rethinking the traditional CV format to create space for more meaningful, contextual information and to emphasize quality over quantity of information in CVs.
Though literature and practice around this topic in the U.S. is still nascent, European researchers and institutions are leading the conversation around reshaping traditional scientific CVs to make research assessment fairer. In this webinar, we’ll hear from Michaela Strinzel from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Dr. Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner from Leiden University in the Netherlands, who will discuss the broader context around these shifts in academia and describe the Swiss National Foundation’s work to implement a new CV format, along with the challenges and lessons learned thus far.
This webinar will offer an alternative approach to writing CVs that better captures collaborative research skills and will provide perspectives on how this shift can move academia towards fairer research assessment.
PRESENTERS:
Michaela Strinzel | Scientific Collaborator, Swiss National Science Foundation
Dr. Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner | Senior Researcher, Leiden University