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FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages 375-382Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/fee.2084
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- Global Young Academy
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions doctoral grant
- Nereus Program
- Canada Research Chairs program
- CNPq
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [ECF1090229]
- SSHRC Insight Grant [435-2017-1071]
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Maintaining the continued flow of benefits from science, as well as societal support for science, requires sustained engagement between the research community and the general public. On the basis of data from an international survey of 1092 participants (634 established researchers and 458 students) in 55 countries and 315 research institutions, we found that institutional recognition of engagement activities is perceived to be undervalued relative to the societal benefit of those activities. Many researchers report that their institutions do not reward engagement activities despite institutions' mission statements promoting such engagement. Furthermore, institutions that actually measure engagement activities do so only to a limited extent. Most researchers are strongly motivated to engage with the public for selfless reasons, which suggests that incentives focused on monetary benefits or career progress may not align with researchers' values. If institutions encourage researchers' engagement activities in a more appropriate way - by moving beyond incentives - they might better achieve their institutional missions and bolster the crucial contributions of researchers to society.
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