Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation at global health conferences

L Velin, JW Lartigue, SA Johnson, A Zorigtbaatar… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Global health conferences are important platforms for knowledge exchange,
decision-making and personal and professional growth for attendees. Neocolonial patterns …

Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce

M Ålund, N Emery, BJM Jarrett, KJ MacLeod… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The postdoctoral workforce comprises a growing proportion of the science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) community, and plays a vital role in advancing …

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

JC Cisneros, NB Raja, AM Ghilardi… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle-and low-income countries
supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued …

International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies

KRW Matthews, E Yang, SW Lewis… - Accountability in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Scientific research increasingly requires international collaboration among scientists. Less is
known, however, about the barriers that impede such collaboration. In this pioneering study …

[HTML][HTML] Does flying less harm academic work? Arguments and assumptions about reducing air travel in academia

AS Kreil - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The climate impact of air travel is increasingly being acknowledged and problematized. As
work in the academic sector often involves frequent long-distance travel, this development …

Beyond partnerships: Embracing complexity to understand and improve research collaboration for global development

J Fransman, B Hall, R Hayman… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for
development, it tends to promote the idea of the “partnership” as a bounded site in which …

Evaluating features of scientific conferences: A call for improvements

S Sarabipour, B Schwessinger, FN Mumoki… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Scientific conferences provide valuable opportunities for researchers across career stages
and disciplines to present their latest work and to network with their peers. The advent of the …

The need for sustainability, equity, and international exchange: perspectives of early career environmental psychologists on the future of conferences

JK Köhler, AS Kreil, A Wenger, A Darmandieu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
At the 2019 and 2021 International Conference on Environmental Psychology, discussions
were held on the future of conferences in light of the enormous greenhouse gas emissions …

Characteristics of global neurosurgery sessions: a retrospective analysis of major international neurosurgical conferences

V Sharma, A Boyke, NA Shlobin, C Nwagwu… - World Neurosurgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The global burden of neurosurgical disease is substantial, particularly in low-
and middle-income countries (LMICs). Medical conferences are important in connecting …

Decolonising the History of Internationalism: Transnational Activism across the South

SL Lewis - Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2024 - cambridge.org
The history of internationalism has tended to focus on power centres in the Global North–
London, Geneva, New York, Paris–and institutions like the League of Nations, United …