Horbach, Serge PJM and Sørensen, Mads P and Allum, Nick and Reid, Abigail-Kate (2023) Disentangling the local context—imagined communities and researchers’ sense of belonging. Science and Public Policy, 50 (4). pp. 695-706. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scad017
Horbach, Serge PJM and Sørensen, Mads P and Allum, Nick and Reid, Abigail-Kate (2023) Disentangling the local context—imagined communities and researchers’ sense of belonging. Science and Public Policy, 50 (4). pp. 695-706. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scad017
Horbach, Serge PJM and Sørensen, Mads P and Allum, Nick and Reid, Abigail-Kate (2023) Disentangling the local context—imagined communities and researchers’ sense of belonging. Science and Public Policy, 50 (4). pp. 695-706. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scad017
Abstract
It is generally agreed that researchers’ ‘local context’ matters to the successful implementation of research integrity policies. However, it often remains unclear what the relevant local context is. Is it the institutions and immediate working surroundings of researchers? Or, do we need to pay more attention to researchers’ epistemic communities if we want to understand their ‘local context’? In this paper, we examine this question by using the International Research Integrity Survey with more than 60,000 respondents. Survey responses indicate that academics identify with both their geographical local units (‘polis’) and their more transnational epistemic or scholarly communities (‘cosmos’). Identification with scholarly communities tends to be strongest. We embed the survey results in the academic literature by proposing a theoretical understanding of academics’ ‘local context’ based on Beck’s notion of cosmopolitanism and Durkheim’s concept of solidarity. We conclude with considerations on how to successfully implement research integrity policies.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | research integrity; policy implementation; research community; academic solidarity; academic identity |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2023 11:26 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:51 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35834 |