The HuMetricsHSS Values Sorter is a self-assessment tool to support scholars, research administrators, and everyone who wishes to engage in a self-assessment of how they are performing in embedding values in their scholarly practices. The sorter has been in development…
The Intentional Work of Values-Enacted Change
When Stephanie Shonekan, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) at the University of Maryland (UMD), asked about the origins of the HuMetricsHSS initiative at lunch after our workshop this week, I was transported back in time to…
Building community around institutional change
On June 1, 2022, the HuMetricsHSS Initiative partnered with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to bring together the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows and the DORA Community Engagement Grant Awardees to share knowledge and strategies on their respective—but interconnected—areas of work.…
Enacting Values of Co-authorship
The publication of the “Walking the Talk” report required intentional practices of co-authoring to enact the values of the HuMetricsHSS team.
Meet the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship cohort
We’re delighted to announce the 2022 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows. HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows are individuals who are engaged in transforming academic culture at their own institutions, whether by rethinking what forms of scholarship “count,” considering how indicators and metrics might be…
Announcing the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship
We are pleased to announce the 2021 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship. The HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows are individuals who are engaged in transformative work in their own institutions, rethinking how scholarship “counts,” how indicators and metrics can be informed by values, and…
HuMetricsHSS Initiative Receives $650,000 Mellon Grant
We’re pleased to announce that the HuMetricsHSS Initiative has received a $650,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon foundation to continue our work! We’re very grateful for the support, and excited to unveil new projects and opportunities in the next…
What We’ve Been Up To
The world has changed dramatically since the HuMetricsHSS initiative began its work. In particular, the systemic inequities that were already obvious to many have come to the fore in the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives…
Website relaunch
We’ve redesigned our website! There’s a ton of new content, including more information on our research on current evaluation practices in the Big 10 system; updates to our own thinking on our values framework and the problem of “quality” as…
It’s in the Syllabus (Journal)
We’re thrilled that our flash essay, “The Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact” has been published in a special issue of Syllabus, guest edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K Gold, and Katherine D Harris.