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SEMILUX – Monthly Seminar

Wednesday 10 June at 15h30 for 1 hour (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, ViennaThe 2 following presentations are scheduled:Emily Murphy, University of Luxembourg – Gender (dis)connects in firm gains among the vocationally qualified in Australia and SwitzerlandMathias Moser, University of Vienna – The Regional Mobility of Labor: Income Effects after Mass Layoffs The last session is…

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Lecture Series “Science of Science in the Spotlight”

Tracking the growth of scientific knowledge is a challenging but integral part of scientific inquiries, scholarly communication, and science of science. Facts, consensus, confidence, and objectivity are among the most desirable elements and instruments in representing and communicating scientific knowledge. In this talk, I will present a promising analytic framework for the science of science…

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Remote Session: Research on research: An overview of the landscape and its connections to research policy

Many scientific fields and communities contribute to research on research, ranging from scientometrics, science and technology studies, and higher education studies to science of science, metascience, and many others. Based on a large-scale scientometric analysis combined with expert input from the recently established Research on Research Institute (https://researchonresearch.org), I will present a visual overview of…

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remote session monthly seminar SEMILUX

The University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for a remote session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be organised ONLINE due to the current situation of COVID-19.Please join us on Webex meetings by following the link https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m3a8d5a6bd03aed7d3461dab63969aa0fMeeting number: 143 827 493Password: VScmpttP733Join by video systemDial 143827493@unilu.webex.comYou can also…

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SEMILUX – Monthly Seminar

Nika (Dominika) Seblova, Columbia University Medical Center: Causal effects of education on cognition and dementia: quasi- & natural experimental approachAnthony LePinteur, University of Luxembourg: A natural experiment on job insecurity and fertility in FranceThe University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for a remote session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies,…

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Building reliable bibliometric indicators for measuring research performance

This talk deals with the challenge of building and using bibliometric indicators in an evaluative context. The aim is to show how valid metrics for scientific information and research assessment can be developed and applied and what the main possible pitfalls in this process are. The talk is organized in seven chapters proceeding from the…

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Effects of competition on universities. Building on the case of French universities

In France as in many other countries, higher education public policies aimed at increasing the level of competition between academics, research teams, training programs but also among universities.Building on the French case, Christine Musselin identifies how these policies impacts on the internal government and the power relationships within universities, how they modify the higher education…

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