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Kelli Barr recently graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fl, with a B.S. in Marine Science, concentration in Biology. She is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant for CSID and is pursuing an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy at UNT. At the moment she is focusing on the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review project (CAPR), concerned with evaluating the peer review process and the implementation of societal impacts criteria at six major scientific funding institutions in the U.S. and abroad. As an extension of this project, she is developing a philosophy of measurement aimed at investigating the intersection of science policy, metrics of research assessment and impact, and the politics of professional judgment. A preliminary account of this research is featured in a recent book chapter co-authored with Dr. Robert Frodeman and Dr. J. Britt Holbrook titled "The University, Metrics, and the Good Life" (in Brey et al. (eds.) The Good Life in a Technological Age. Routledge, 2012). Her broader research interests include philosophy of science and science policy, political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and the future of higher education.
Barr has presented at a number of conferences and workshops on her research with CAPR and other CSID projects. Most recently, she helped organize an edited volume – part of a partnership with Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China – titled Peer Review, Research Integrity, and the Governance of Science: Practice, Theory, and Current Discussions (Renmin Press, China), and a corresponding follow-up workshop by the same name in Dalian, China. She and Dr. Holbrook traveled to Northwestern University this past June to present at the altmetrics12 workshop on the relationship between peer review and alternative measures (altmetrics) of research impact. Barr's presentation concluded that if the democratization of academic knowledge and its subsequent impact upon society is to gain momentum, then peer review needs to be supplemented, not substituted, with alternative metrics that track the uptake and re-use of academic work beyond traditional venues for the dissemination of scholarly research (the conference abstract is available here).
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Barr has presented at a number of conferences and workshops on her research with CAPR and other CSID projects. Most recently, she helped organize an edited volume – part of a partnership with Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China – titled Peer Review, Research Integrity, and the Governance of Science: Practice, Theory, and Current Discussions (Renmin Press, China), and a corresponding follow-up workshop by the same name in Dalian, China. She and Dr. Holbrook traveled to Northwestern University this past June to present at the altmetrics12 workshop on the relationship between peer review and alternative measures (altmetrics) of research impact. Barr's presentation concluded that if the democratization of academic knowledge and its subsequent impact upon society is to gain momentum, then peer review needs to be supplemented, not substituted, with alternative metrics that track the uptake and re-use of academic work beyond traditional venues for the dissemination of scholarly research (the conference abstract is available here).
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