A roadmap to good practice for training supervisors and leadership: a European perspective.

Frontiers in research metrics and analytics Pub Date : 2025-06-19 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/frma.2025.1531467
Seán Lacey, Tamarinde Haven, Rita Santos, Tom Farrelly, Máiréad Murray, Panagiotis Kavouras
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Purpose: Supervision and leadership are regarded to have a major role in promoting responsible research. Various approaches to training for supervisors and leaders have been proposed. However, little is known about what works best, what kind of hurdles are faced in implementation and engagement, and what methods of assessing the effectiveness of training programs are available. Through exploring these points, this research aims to propose a roadmap to good practice for training supervisors and leadership.

Design: A virtual marketplace for exchanging current practices and approaches for training supervisors and leadership took place in March 2024. Twenty-two policy makers from thirteen European countries, supervisors and senior research leaders were selected to participate, using opportunistic and purposive sampling. Facilitated using the Gather platform, the marketplace commenced with a non-European keynote speaker on training supervisors and leadership. Three main questions were brought forward for discussion separately-What works well for successful implementation? What are the challenges? How do we assess effectiveness? After the keynote presentation, marketplace participants rotated in groups between three market stalls to share thoughts on good practices for training supervisors and leadership framed around the three questions. Moderators for each of the stalls recorded detailed field notes to inform the study findings.

Findings: During the exchange, mandatory training, especially when tailored to specific disciplines and conducted in small groups using a problem-based learning approach, was deemed effective. Awareness of power imbalances between early career researchers, supervisors, and leaders were to the fore. Critical challenges included a need for senior supervisors and leaders to participate and support research training. Also a need for systemic processes, tailored to specific local settings to avoid ad hoc implementation of policies, procedures and training. In assessing effectiveness there was an emphasis to share more research data and to utilize incidents of breaches of research integrity. The latter to be leveraged for learning purposes and transparency around the investigative process.

Originality: There are multiple facets to good practice for training supervisors and leadership, along with a multitude of practices, however there is little evidence of practices that work, challenges around implementation, and assessing effectiveness.

培训主管和领导的良好实践路线图:欧洲视角。
目的:监督和领导被认为在促进负责任的研究中起着重要作用。已经提出了各种培训主管和领导的方法。然而,对于哪些方法最有效,在实施和参与过程中面临什么样的障碍,以及评估培训项目有效性的方法,人们知之甚少。通过对这些点的探索,本研究旨在为培训主管和领导提出一个良好的实践路线图。设计:2024年3月举办了一个虚拟市场,用于交流培训主管和领导的当前实践和方法。来自13个欧洲国家的22位政策制定者、主管和高级研究领导者被选中参与,采用机会主义和有目的的抽样。在Gather平台的推动下,市场开始由一位非欧洲人主讲培训主管和领导。分别提出了三个主要问题进行讨论:什么对成功实施有效?有哪些挑战?我们如何评估有效性?主题演讲结束后,市场参与者分组在三个市场摊位之间轮换,围绕这三个问题分享培训主管和领导的良好做法。每个摊位的主持人都记录了详细的现场笔记,以告知研究结果。研究结果:在交流期间,强制性培训,特别是针对特定学科和采用基于问题的学习方法进行的小组培训,被认为是有效的。对早期职业研究人员、主管和领导者之间权力不平衡的认识是最重要的。关键的挑战包括需要高级主管和领导参与和支持研究培训。还需要有系统的程序,适合具体的地方情况,以避免临时执行政策、程序和培训。在评估有效性时,强调要分享更多的研究数据,并利用违反研究诚信的事件。后者将被用于学习目的和调查过程的透明度。原创性:培训主管和领导的良好实践有多个方面,以及大量的实践,但是很少有证据表明实践是有效的,围绕实施的挑战,以及评估有效性。
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