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Athena SWAN in Higher Education Sector - a Built Environment Perspective
Higher education tends to recognise gender equality in terms of representation, progression
and success for students and staff. Athena SWAN is a Charter which addresses gender
equality. This paper is based on critical review of literature and secondary data analysis. A
thorough literature review explores the best practices adopted by Universities in UK who
were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze. In doing so, 39 Universities were identified from the
CHOBE members (Council of Heads of the Built Environment Heads of Department of
Construction, Property and Surveying) in the year 2017 who have built environment students
and staff. The results revealed that none of the Universities had gold award of Athena
SWAN whereas 26 Universities had bronze awards. From the secondary data analysis of
three years data from Equality in higher education, statistical reports on student and staff
shows areas of concern for built environment where the female percent of student and staff
are in the lower end of the spectrum. Therefore, initiatives and lessons learnt from other
successful awarded Universities will be discussed in this paper so that awareness and
adoption of the best practices by the built environment sector is encouraged
Using peer review to support development of community resources for research data management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. The definitive version was published in Journal of eScience Librarianship 6 (2017): e1114, doi:10.7191/jeslib.2017.1114.To ensure that resources designed to teach skills and best practices for scientific
research data sharing and management are useful, the maintainers of those materials need to
evaluate and update them to ensure their accuracy, currency, and quality. This paper
advances the use and process of outside peer review for community resources in addressing
ongoing accuracy, quality, and currency issues. It further describes the next step of moving the
updated materials to an online collaborative community platform for future iterative review in
order to build upon mechanisms for open science, ongoing iteration, participation, and
transparent community engagement.DataONE is supported by US National Science Foundation Awards 08- 30944 and 14-30508, William Michener, Principal Investigator; Matthew Jones, Patricia Cruse, David Vieglais, and Suzanne Allard, Co-Principal Investigators
When Artists Fall: Honoring and Admiring the Immoral
Is it appropriate to honor artists who have created great works but who have also acted immorally? In this article, after arguing that honoring involves identifying a person as someone we ought to admire, we present three moral reasons against honoring immoral artists. First, we argue that honoring can serve to condone their behavior, through the mediums of emotional prioritization and exemplar identification. Second, we argue that honoring immoral artists can generate undue epistemic credibility for the artists, which can lead to an indirect form of testimonial injustice for the artists’ victims. Third, we argue, building on the first two reasons, that honoring immoral artists can also serve to silence their victims. We end by considering how we might respond to these reasons
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Fostering Public Good Contributions with Symbolic Awards: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia
This natural field experiment tests the effects of purely symbolic awards on volunteer retention in a public goods context. The experiment is conducted at Wikipedia, which faces declining editor retention rates, particularly among newcomers. Randomization assures that award receipt is orthogonal to previous performance. The analysis reveals that awards have a sizeable effect on newcomer retention, which persists over the four quarters following the initial intervention. This is noteworthy for indicating that awards for volunteers can be effective even if they have no impact on the volunteers’ future career opportunities. The awards are purely symbolic, and the status increment they produce is limited to the recipients’ pseudonymous online identities in a community they have just recently joined. The results can be explained by enhanced self-identification with the community, but they are also in line with recent findings on the role of status and reputation, recognition, and evaluation potential in online communities. Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2540 . This paper was accepted by John List, behavioral economics
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