The QSS lab is happy to announce that Dr. Rodigro Costas (CWTS Leiden) and Dr. Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University), two prominent scholars in the quantitative science studies field, will be visiting from July 15th to July 31st.
Dr. Costas will be giving a research presentation about researcher mobility on Thursday, July 21st (more details here), and Dr. Bowman’s presentation on the mobilizaton of science in Reddit and StackExchange on Thursday July 28th (more details here)
They will be working at the School of Information Management for the time of their visit, so feel free to stop by and meet them.
“Dr. Philippe Mongeon, Director of the QSS lab, Dr. Alana Westwood (Lead PI) and Dr. Matthew Falconer received a SSHRC partnership development grant to investigate knowledge exchange at the environmental science-policy interface.
The project involves academic partners (Dalhousie University, Carleton University, University of Alberta, University of New Brunswick, and University of Regina) as well as government partners (the Canadian Wildlife Service – Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) and non-profit organizations (Mitacs and Evidence for Democracy).
The QSS Lab will lead the first of four research projects funded through this grant, which aims at analyzing the visibility/engagement with scholarly publications about forest science in publicly-available policy, news, and social media, and identify whether there are features, keywords, or subject areas that support greater uptake of forest science knowledge in these public venues.
More details about the project can be found here.”