oHC5: Improving Accessible Feedback Mechanisms in Research: Development of a Living E-Book
Feedback is central to enhancing research quality but often fails to meet the needs of diverse researchers. Feedback is often subject to gatekeeping through privilege, and delayed until research completion, emphasising outcomes over process. The open science movement has introduced a number of novel feedback practices, creating an opportunity to review timely and less privilege-dependent feedback mechanisms. Following a Leverhulme Trust-funded global, transdisciplinary mixed-methods survey mapping feedback strategies across the research lifecycle, we’re partnering with the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) to create a community-maintained ‘living’ e-book. Developing this resource, the focus of our Hackathon, will provide guidance, participants’ ratings, and qualitative advice on each feedback strategy across the research cycle. This work aims to widely disseminate accessible opportunities to improve the quality, relevance, and frequency of feedback in research, strengthening the credibility and validity of scientific findings while promoting inclusivity.
