The production and validation of knowledge relevant to agriculture, nutrition and global health (and beyond) reflects power imbalances born from historical legacies that skew the representation of researchers and practitioners, as well as the evidence base that underpins policy actions.

These inequities exist across the entire research continuum, from the formulation of research questions, to the conduct of science, through to the dissemination of findings and ownership of data – and everything in between. Therefore, efforts to decolonise food systems research, training and practice will fail if such problems are not identified, interrogated and acted upon.

Building on work currently in progress through the ANH Academy, this special ANH2022 session takes a magnifying lens to one specific stage of the research continuum and the inequities that exist within it: Academic publishing.

The session brings together researchers, journal editors and open science advocates to discuss key problems with academic publishing – including issues surrounding authorship, fees and peer review. The discussion will not simply identify problems, but invite speakers and audience alike to propose potential solutions that can be implemented at different levels; from actions that can be taken by individual researchers, to those that journal editors, institutions and donors can pursue.  There might even be space to co-imagine system-level change.

Join the conversation and be ready to actively engage with your perspectives and ideas! ANH Academy is committed to continuing work in this area and will share ways in which members can stay involved after the event.

Speakers

Introduction and scene-setting

• Swetha Manohar, Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Co-coordinator of ANH Academy Working Group on Inequities in Research and Practice

Moderator

• Purnima Menon, International Food Policy Research Institute, India

Panellists

• Alex Holcombe, Professor, University of Sydney, co-creator of tenzing; Free Journal Network advisory board member; co-author of A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
• Catherine Kyobutungi, Director, African Population and Health Research Center & Co-Editor in Chief, PLOS Global Health
• Kui Muraya, Principal Investigator - Gender and Health, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
• Johan Rooryck, Executive Director, cOAlition S, Professor & Editor-in-Chief, Glossa

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