Issues in Fair Science

DISTRACT team member Kristoffer Albris was one of the panelists in the first panel in a series of discussions about fair science organized by SODAS, taking place in the spring semester of 2021, alongside professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen and postdoc Anna Rogers.

The online panel debate revolved around the following:

As an emerging field, social data science has the opportunity to approach issues of fairness in science with a somewhat clean slate. This makes it all the more important to identify what these issues are and how they might be addressed. This panel will take a broad perspective on issues in fair science including questions of ethics and practicalities of data collection, publication incentives and academic performance indicators, diversity and equity in science, and the drivers and hurdles to research on different topics. The goal then is to map out the issues confronting the emerging field of social data science