an observatorium for science in society based in social models kick-off meeting sisob kick-off...

An Observatorium for Science in Society based in Social Models

Kick-off meeting

SISOB Kick-off Meeting

Researcher Mobility: WP7

SISOB Kick-off Meeting 2

WP7• Task 7.1. Review of the existing literature and

identification of data sources:– 7.1.1 Produce a thorough review of previous research on

the impact of mobility on research productivity, career, knowledge diffusion, etc.• Conceptualization: still underdeveloped;• Unresolved issue: causality between mobility and productivity /

career;• Data availability: poor

– D7.1 first draft M8 final draft N20 Lead FR with contribution of all partners (creation of a common repository for the literature)

3

WP 7 – 7.1– 7.1.2 Assessment of availability of researcher CV

DB (Raimondo will gather all the info from the partners on available DBs – look at previous projects EUROCV, ENID)

– 7.1.3 Obtain access to new CV DB:• Italy MIUR 65000 university staff central DB• Germany ?• Regione Piemonte• University of Torino• EC access to Marie Curie data (with follow up survey)

4

WP 7 – 7.1

– 7.1.4 Web crawling on UK university sites to find CVs

– M8 assessment of available data and their quality, report part of D 7.1. first draft M8 final draft N20 Lead FR with contribution of all partners.


WP7• Task 7.2. Data collection and specification of

needs for the construction of mobility indicators– Interaction with WP 2 and WP 3: data collection,

web crawling, data mining, matching CV info to WoS/Scholar/Scopus and other sources of info.

6

WP7 – 7.2• Following indicators will be built:

• Output indicators (pubs, cit, downloads, etc…)• Temporary mobility indicators (postdoc, sabatical,

temporary leave, secondment, etc.); how long?• Change of job mobility (to other univ –high v lower rank-

to PROs to business);• Career reconstruction;• Social capital before after mobility (SNA as dependent

var).

– Conceptual lead FR (RICYT, MTA), contribution from all the technical partners.


WP7

• Task 7.3: effects of researchers’ mobility on researchers´ trajectories – We plan to study the effect of mobility on career

trajectory:• Promotion: assistant prof to associate to full prof;• Tenure• Mobility to a lower rank institution (in higher position)• Mobility to an higher rank institution at the same position• ……… any other possible combination of the above


WP7 – 7.3

• Case study of the UK: (1) clear and stable career ladder; (2) previous work on list of academic positions / univ and dep names; (3) RAE based ranking of department since 1986 (pus other rankings); availability of good department/uni level info for a panel of more than 100 uni for 18 years; etc…

• Contribution of UMA / MTA ?• Report by Geuna and Meissner (Stephan?), part of

D7.3 (NOTE: change of focus in the title of the deliverable); first draft M18 final M28.


WP7Task 7.4: effects of researchers’ mobility in

terms of scientific productivity• Econometric modelling will be used on panel

data (built on the basis of the career of the researcher for her university degree onward) taking into account the endogeneity problem.

• Data on more countries depending on the success of the extraction and matching of info from CVs by previous WPs.


WP7 – 7.4

D7.2 report by Geuna, Meissner, Stephan, M18 first draft M24 final

Contribution by RICYT? We could be interested to study mobility of doc / post doc from Argentina to UK / US ……

May be better to have RICYT more involved in 7.5 see following slide?


WP7Task 7.5 effects of researchers’ mobility on the

development of disciplinary fields– We do not intend to work much on this task given

the fact that the researcher that was mainly interested has moved partially away;

– Will MTA be responsible for this task? Will UMA contribute? Can RICYT do more on this task?

– Deliverable part of D7.3 (NOTE: change of focus in the title of the deliverable); first draft M18 final M28.


WP7

• Task 7.6 Best practices and recommendations about mobility for the evolution of scientific communities

• What do we want to say on evolution of scientific communities, not clear (who is going to be responsible for? RICYT? );

• We could contribute with a change of focus, for example


WP7 – 7.6

• We can try to produce policy relevant and best practice conclusions on: – the length of mobility (postdoc or sabatic);– Is mobility to business good or bed and for what; – comparative analysis of national regulation on

academic mobility to identify best practice (I, UK, D, S, H, Sw, Arg);

– Externalities (peer effects) of mobility on local academic community;


WP7 – 7.6

• We do not have a proper deliverable, of it was the D7.3 but need change of title. M20 first draft, M28 final.

• Important involvement of different partners how is going to be managed?


an observatorium for science in society based in social models kick-off meeting sisob kick-off...

Documents