Public Recognition in Research
— Helen Della Nave, Open Source Science Manager
Publishing research papers is a big deal for researchers. A researcher without any publications is like a brownie without any badges. There is a lot of discussion in the research community about how contributors are recognised on research papers.
I call Chrissy Hammond our ‘Fish in Space’ partner but officially she is an Associate Professor in Developmental Genetics! She is also the first researcher that has proactively asked us to co-author a research paper that formally recognises the contribution we and our audiences have made in her research.
With visitors to the venue 363 days a year I am focused on people not publications. I am trying to convince my partners to take a risk on a hunch that public participation improves the quality of research and I am literally over the moon that they value this enough to recognise it in their publications.
That’s one brownie badge in developmental genetics to our We the Curious audience!
