Short Abstract

What does “feminist metascience” mean and what could it look like? In this panel, a diverse group will explore these questions from different standpoints, with the aim of fostering debate, raising questions, and finding common ground.

Long Abstract

Open science should be open to all, yet critics have raised issues like “Bropen science”, epistemic and methodological exclusion, and a lack of focus on equity, diversity and inclusion in metascience initiatives. We propose that a “feminist metascience” is needed and invite an inclusive conversation about what it means to align metascience with feminist principles. We will discuss and debate how a “feminist metascience” could reorient research processes and workflows towards an approach that centres critiques of power structures and dynamics of inequality. We consider how gender, culture, intersectionality, epistemological and methodological orientation impact researcher experiences within open science, and reflect upon how a “feminist metascience” could help spotlight equity, inclusion and diversity within the research environment.

Chair and moderator

Dr. Nicki Lisa Cole, Senior Researcher at Know Center Research. Her feminist, anti-racist sociological approach to metascience centres dynamics of power and inequality.

Panelists

Dr. Sakshi Ghai, London School of Economics, will share perspectives on sample and researcher diversity within open science with a focus on the Global South.

Dr. Gowri Gopalakrishna, Maastricht University, will share a critical, decolonial perspective on research integrity and Open Science.

Dr. Madeleine Pownall, University of Leeds, will share insights about a feminist psychological approach to and epistemic exclusion within open science.

Dr. Annayah Prosser, University of Bath, is a social scientist and qualitative researcher who is developing epistemically-responsive open research practices.

Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto, Georgia Tech, is a leading scholar on the topic of inequality in academic research.