Knowledge Commons | HuMetricsHSS | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/humetricshss-1370894327/ Activity feed for the group, HuMetricsHSS. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:49:10 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1832825dd1ce7c3b39ebaa3139bdb082 Nicky Agate started the topic Applications now open for the 2025 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute in the forum HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/groups/humetricshss-1370894327/forum/topic/applications-now-open-for-the-2025-values-enacted-leadership-institute/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:17:36 -0500 The HumetricsHSS team is thrilled to open applications for teams from institutions of higher education interested in attending the inaugural Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI) from July 13 - 18, 2025.

Since 2016, Humetrics has conducted workshops, consultations and research across a wide range of higher education institutions, helping u…[Read more]

]]> 31ce09b0225b8241df50924b4aacb781 Rene Von Schomberg deposited The Future of Indicators for Research Assessment and Open Science. Doing away with quantitative indicators in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900159/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:56 -0400 I unfold the argument for a research assessment based on 'research behaviour' (e.g. knowledge sharing and collaboration) rather than solely on research outputs in bibliometric terms (e.g, number of publications, citation counts etc), reflecting a more open science practice. Quantitative assessments are any case not appropriate for assessing the…[Read more]

]]> 0 814e698f609bf5736d5b504edb5233e8 Sonja Rae Fritzsche deposited Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership Work Plan Template for Adaptation in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1892051/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:00:43 -0400 The Fall Work Plan in the values enacted "Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership" initiative is designed to empower the faculty member (or staff or student) through self-goal setting and facilitating communication between faculty and academic staff (together “faculty”) and their supervisor/chair/director and mentors at the start of the aca…[Read more]

]]> 0 8194eb5167fd0f18e67f0669b77880f0 David Lee deposited Asset Backed Note Securitization Modelling in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887279/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 The model makes the assumption that the future values of these parameters will be unchanged until the final payment date. Subsequently, we perform a deterministic computation consisting of calculating the future cashflows in the waterfall and discounting them. We note that, in reality,
future parameter values are uncertain. Furthermore, the model…[Read more]

]]> 0 c68233ff40c2e468804dc260378c9373 David Lee deposited Pricing Asian Basket Relative Performance Option in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884626/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:15 -0400 An Asian basket relative performance options (RPO) option is a derivative product whose payoff is determined by the difference between the performance of a reference stock and that of a basket of stocks, where performance is defined as the ratio of average of two sets of averaging dates. In other words, the payoff depends on underlying stock’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 865a3baa1133dd71a6034aeed9bc091b David Lee deposited Callable Asian Option Valuation in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881556/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0400 Callable Asian options allow their underwriters to call the options back from investors at a specified time and with a specified amount prior to option maturities. A hybrid of Monte Carlo simulation and the closed form Michael Curran’s solution is employed in pricing.

To fulfil these purposes, the volatility of stock for use in Monte Carlo s…[Read more]

]]> 0 505b58a986c3d2deb0f2b1ac9b1cd81e Katherine D. Harris deposited Play, Collaborate, Break, Build, Share: 'Screwing Around' in Digital Pedagogy in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847619/ Wed, 31 May 2023 02:26:32 -0400 Digital Humanities has become a “hot” topic in academia over the last few years (as of 2012), primarily in research and scholarship. While many push forward into new realms of using technology to articulate cool findings, others at non research intensive universities are moving forward with engaging their undergraduate students in var ious for…[Read more]

]]> 0 e82fcf7c6cad4484ab49f49f67db387b Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773598/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:25:19 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 33567d2fe87cfde5712fe8b9baeaec3f Kath Burton deposited Navigation, connection, and humanities wisdom from the Pacific in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773593/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:25:02 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3963868a7f7e91434431de12017615e Kath Burton deposited Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773588/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:24:45 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 98c9e6e90e1ccf41df1070e8de80aa2f Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities: Scholarship in Service to the Common Good in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773583/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:24:28 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff299315e2552b6c85f3fe02b2e2635e Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities Scholarship and LGBTQIA+ Studies in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773578/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:24:10 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 d640b019f45af17c71ddd88996673016 Kath Burton deposited Not If, But How in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773573/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:23:40 -0500 Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in "Exploring What's…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d74a8a1431f9d59129a85ab99ee9386 William Hart-Davidson deposited CPIL Venn Diagram for Academic Advisors in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763673/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 02:23:46 -0500 This version of the CPIL diagram keeps the core values (on the outside) and ends (semi-transparent circles) the same as other versions, but the ovals - the means by which the ends are achieved - are changed here to reflect the common work activities of Academic Advisors.

]]> 0 cc2a49d874603aaebd1975d8aa0e5b18 Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities and Publication: A Working Paper in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732773/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:24:08 -0400 This paper explores the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship. It is the product of a working group convened in February 2020 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis and the National Humanities Alliance to identify and discuss model practices for publishing on public and publicly engaged humanities…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3733c72af327ad18e86d4643a99a059 Kath Burton started the topic Public Humanities and Publication working paper in the discussion HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/groups/humetricshss-1370894327/forum/topic/public-humanities-and-publication-working-paper-5/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:22:52 -0500 Today we are posting the first paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group: https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003800/1611561373-PublicHumanitiesandPublication_workingpaper2021.pdf

Exploring the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship, this paper is the…[Read more]

]]> fa92e447378371a1c9e4d00e453cfe52 Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719306/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:24:32 -0500 HuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.

]]> 0 105d304b7dd1bef54a893c609f9ff634 Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719061/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:29:00 -0500 This is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 351f8ed047017417dbd2b79e2f8f3a51 Katie Wilson deposited Global diversity in higher education staffing: Towards openness in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693550/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:25:34 -0400 The adoption of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in recent decades highlights an ongoing need for structural and cultural change within higher education institutions. It also raises questions around gender, race and disability politics, the decolonisation of diversity and neoliberal management of higher…[Read more]

]]> 0 470cd17368fd549a2d9431a722c73bd5 Katherine D. Harris deposited Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684838/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:32:05 -0400 Final progress report about the California Open Educational Resources Council's work with 3 representatives from each of the California State University, University of California, and California Community Colleges, to investigate the efficacy of implementing adoption of OER textbooks and to create a repository of OER textbooks for use in all 3 systems.

]]> 0 6ea9eec344f4d6373511ac9a81218cea Katherine D. Harris deposited White Paper: OER Adoption Study: Using Open Educational Resources in the College Classroom in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684835/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:28:49 -0400 Based on its survey responses, the California Open Educational Resources Council identified several impediments to adopting OER textbooks and concluded that rigorous peer review was ultimately the first step towards advocating for adoption of OER textbooks. The Council quickly identified 50 highly-enrolled courses with expensive textbooks across…[Read more]

]]> 0 f10898871ac2be39d836e01cdab2ba35 Katie Wilson deposited ‘Is the library open?’: Correlating unaffiliated access to academic libraries with open access support in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664672/ Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:26:14 -0400 This paper explores the extent to which the ideals of ‘openness’ are being applied to physical knowledge resources and research spaces. The study investigates the relationship between academic library access policies and institutional positions on open access/open science publishing. Analysis of library access policies from twenty academic ins…[Read more]

]]> 0 86e6c0a45a64bebd2df44bb7a338aabb Cameron Neylon deposited Research excellence is a neo-colonial agenda (and what might be done about it) in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660931/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:28:40 -0400 Research “excellence” is a central target of policy, researchers and institutions. Increasingly it is a target of criticism for the way in which it reinforces systemic biases in power, reduces diversity, and excludes many participants from the processes of scholarship. In this chapter I argue that in the context of post- colonial and tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 22652b7bba82f6d8705b0744769a7162 Eva Weinmayr deposited Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice) in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642287/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:26:03 -0400 In this chapter I investigate the coercive relationship between authorship and copyright from the perspective of intersectional feminist and de-colonial knowledge practices. Examining three artistic strategies (Richard Prince, Cady Noland and the Piracy Project) which all try to challenge the close ties between copyright and authorship – a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee7d5eddaa832734a8b04a38a0703270 J. Britt Holbrook deposited Balancing Act: Open Access and Academic Freedom in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639108/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:32 -0400 Presentation delivered at ISMPP 2019.

]]> 0 1b83e4a11e9ea9cee45c5abdb250b027 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Universities should be working for the greater good in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638110/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:47:54 -0400 This is the submission (unedited) version of the article published in Times Higher Education on April 11, 2019, which argues that the market-based competition that fuels so much of academic life is doing us all far more harm than good.

]]> 0 db781b251cb75ef4ab6ba98fc7c9ef0d Eric Hellman deposited The Open-Factor: Toward impact-aligned measures of open-access ebook usage in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638103/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:43:24 -0400 A statistical analysis of usage data for open-access ebooks from two different publishers and from a free ebook distribution platform indicates that open-access ebook usage is distributed following log-normal statistics. Using a quantity related to the logarithm of download counts, dubbed the “open-factor”, will measure impact in better ali…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b1f6800e1432330cb03c7cc20825f66 William Hart-Davidson deposited Values, Outcomes, & Activities of Intellectual Leadership in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636100/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:25:29 -0400 The diagram depicts the aims of an academic career that exhibits intellectual leadership: sharing knowledge, expanding opportunity, contributing to greater transparency and accelerating creativity. Intellectual leaders engage in mentorship of others, formally as instructors and informally. They also engage in stewardship of the institutional…[Read more]

]]> 0 c364e81359c046d5d0ec3ec8b1c6e6b0 J. Britt Holbrook deposited A cartography of philosophy's engagement with society in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635820/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:34:57 -0400 Should philosophy help address the problems of non-philosophers or should it be something isolated both from
other disciplines and from the lay public? This question became more than academic for philosophers working in
UK universities with the introduction of societal impact assessment in the national research evaluation exercise,
the REF.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b079717ab50e984f7fc6bdf735fbdfc0 J. Britt Holbrook deposited The humanities do not need a replication drive in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629913/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Argues that the humanities do not need a replication drive like that being pushed for in the sciences.

]]> 0 0a378cc1ef3f50134c44d511da5543de Katie Wilson deposited Access to academic libraries: an indicator of openness? in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625532/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:25:39 -0500 Introduction. Open access to digital research output is increasing, but academic library policies can place restrictions on public access to libraries. This paper reports on a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between academic library access policies and institutional positions of openness to knowledge. Method. This primarily…[Read more]

]]> 0 41b550d49148f711e15aae8b3c0427ba J. Britt Holbrook deposited Philosophy and Science Policy: A Report from the Field in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620455/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 This presentation presents a case study in philosophy and science policy surrounding Plan S and argues that we need new ways of evaluating such approaches to research.

]]> 0 2dd711e69c3c908d544d0004f2a93a37 J. Britt Holbrook deposited Incorporating Societal Impact into Academic Research in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1618242/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:25:28 -0400 The 2018 International Research Conference at UC Davis focuses on:

Changing political environment and its impact on international research
Increasing importance of networks and consortia in advancing international research
Role of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research in solving global challenges
Educating the next…[Read more]

]]> 0 58091042ba7f0d1a6ce82e7ddcdbf315 J. Britt Holbrook deposited Ecce Homo Academicus -- The revaluation of higher education values in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617413/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:25:21 -0400 Evaluation can be seen as an opportunity for transvaluation, or what Nietzsche called the revaluation of values. However, evaluation is often treated instead as the enforcement of standards – standardization rather than transformation. When evaluation as transvaluation and evaluation as standardization are both used to evaluate the same s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d87d72d3cf8faec99fa05ff1b1f54cf5 Cameron Neylon deposited Getting the best out of data for open access monograph presses: A case study of UCL Press in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615139/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:14:45 -0400 This study of UCL Press sought to identify the extent to which data available to Open Access (OA) monograph presses can be combined with low-cost analysis tools to provide insight into development and strategy. An additional goal was identifying practical steps that monograph publishers can take to ensure that they make the most of the data they…[Read more]

]]> 0 9aaa86f08ecdcf0ba7df1e1c33937daf Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615050/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:49:16 -0400 The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d22172da7929ed4c23c10ecee8eb3ac Ali Kılıçoglu deposited Qualitative Research for Educational Science Researchers: A Review of An Introduction to Qualitative Research in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607075/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:17:37 -0400 Qualitative research is a type of scientific research which includes document analysis, observation or interview. Qualitative research process describes the events in the natural environment realistically and holistically. Although quantitative research methods are mostly used in educational sciences, qualitative research methods are also used by…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4b575f4512fafee417afdd0ab1bd014 Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS #hssvalues Workshop Twitter Archive in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1586585/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:11:48 -0400 This spreadsheet captures all the tweets posted using the #hssvalues hashtag, which was used leading up to and for the Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Science (HuMetricsHSS)'s Value of Values workshop held in East Lansing, Michigan, from 5-7 October 2017.

]]> 0 23435d76210ae0bea1473619d6bec19a Nicky Agate posted an update in the group HuMetricsHSS: I've uploaded the readings we assigned HuMetricsHSS […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583875/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:25:28 -0400 I've uploaded the readings we assigned HuMetricsHSS workshop participants to the Files section of this group.

]]> 0 a8c9dbca451c704830ef6c8ce6e353ac Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects to HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583874/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:23:58 -0400 Stefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière
Abstract Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are
all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in
the light of limited resources and increased bureaucratization of science, peer review is…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2c85f7eb4c610678abbfb528ebec7a0 Nicky Agate edited the file: Generous Thinking: Introduction in HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583873/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:23:11 -0400 0 204d6ce343c86aef5ea33e033352c454 Nicky Agate uploaded the file: Generous Thinking: Introduction to HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583872/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:22:45 -0400 0 16f8963ee07d7c367a5046e050360c48 Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors to HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583871/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:21:17 -0400 Author: Audrey Williams June

]]> 0 34f73709d3c88363ece20c168c905bf4 Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583870/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:18:37 -0400 The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]

]]> 0 16697e4ee00ae53e91e8978ad9997fdb Nicky Agate started the topic How might you employ/deploy the process & ideas of the first HuMetricsHSS event? in the discussion HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/groups/humetricshss-1370894327/forum/topic/how-might-you-employdeploy-the-process-ideas-of-the-first-humetricshss-event/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 15:13:40 -0400 At the first HuMetricsHSS workshop, we asked participants how they might take the process and ideas generated there back into their own professional and institutional contexts. This thread is for feedback, ideas, and reporting back!

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