MEETINGS COMMITTEE

Program Committee Meetings Considered Harmful

This paper discusses various disadvantages of having a program committee meeting.

Fair(er) and (Almost) Serene Committee Meetings with Logical and Formal Concept Analysis

In academia, many decisions are taken in committee, for example to hire people or to allocate resources. Genuine people often leave such meetings quite frustrated. Indeed, it is intrinsically hard to make multi-criteria decisions, selection criteria are hard to express and the global picture is too large for participants to embrace it fully. In this article, we describe a recruiting process whe...

Ethical review from the inside: repertoires of evaluation in Research Ethics Committee meetings.

Evaluating the practice of ethical review by Research Ethics Committees (REC) could help protect the interests of human participants and promote scientific progress. To facilitate such evaluations, we conducted an ethnographic study of how an REC reviews research proposals during its meetings. We observed 13 meetings of a Dutch REC and studied REC documents. We coded this material inductively a...

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