Harnessing Open Science to Address Global Issues: Open Science and SDGS

Duration: 1 hr
Publication Date: 2022 | Jun 02

About the session

The world has faced and continues to face a multitude of crises, enhanced by the current pandemic. As COVID-19 took hold around the globe, it underscored how science must be in the conversation to tackle these crises on an immediate, collaborative, and interconnected scale. This conversation can no longer just be 'academic' but one with a much higher social consciousness attached to it. The discussions surrounding Open Science (OS) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals are central to the intersection of social consciousness and science. Where OS policies can promote unhindered global sharing of knowledge, those surrounding SDGs can guide science towards impact. This session, featuring speakers from Cabells, Springer Nature, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), addresses ways that the scientific community and journalism can drive change and wider societal outreach through open science policies and by embracing SDGs as a key topic in research impact. It addresses case studies around the current state of open science, open science policy, and the practical ways that open science is impacting the SDG program. It also explores and demonstrates a method for operationalizing SDG-mindedness as a tool for measuring both research impact and potential. || Speakers: Laura Helmuth; Rachel J. Scheer; David Steingard; Lucas Toutloff; Paul Perrin

Collection

Annual Meeting (2022)

Speakers

Director, SDG Dashboard Initiative, Saint Joseph’s University

David Steingard, Ph.D., is Director of the SDG Dashboard initiative and Associate Professor of Leadership, Ethics, & Organizational Sustainability at the Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph’s University, USA. The SDG Dashboard is a collaborative, online platform that empowers higher education institutions to report and share their best United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) impact practices. He also leads a partnership with Cabells to produce the SDG Impact Intensity academic journal rating system powered by artificial intelligence and data analytics.
CTO, Cabells

Exhibitor
Head of Communications, US, Springer Nature

Rachel Scheer is Head of Communications, USA for Springer Nature. She is incredibly passionate about supporting the SDGs and works on initiatives such as Science for a Sustainable Future and Science on the Hill. Scheer attended Penn State where she majored in Geography.
Associate Professor of the Practice in Global Affairs/Global Health, University of Notre Dame
Editor in Chief, Scientific American

Laura Helmuth is the Editor in Chief of Scientific American. She has been an editor for The Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, and Science magazines. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s standing committee on advancing science communication and serves on the advisory boards of SciLine, a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that connects reporters with scientific experts; High Country News; and 500 Women Scientists. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley. She is active on Twitter at @LauraHelmuth.