Single Review on past events

We all have, each of us, a research agenda, a topic, a question, a goal that drives our thinking, and pushes us to do the research that we glow for. These questions are rooted within our own discipline. It is easy for us, when we are asked, to explain what we do and why.

We all also have academic values, overarching principles, ethical values that we follow in our research practice. We would think that these values should be common to all of us, across disciplines. And still: when pushed to name them, to put them into a nutshell, maybe even to write a statement “what are our academic values?” – we fail.

This is a problem, in particular given that living our (implicit) values may change, or may be even the values themselves change and get under increasing pressure in a changing world: research innovations, artificial intelligence, sustainability and climate change might all affect our values, and how we defend them.

We would like to use the Jour fixe to discuss this topic.

Do you have a clear formulation for your “academic values”? Or a strong statement about how – if so – they are being strained? Or do you feel that this is a non-topic, a distraction that only diverts concentration away from the really important things to do and think?