Programme

28 May 2026, 14.00-17.00, Huygens HG01.060 (first floor, central corridor)

Programme

14.00 Presentation: Outsourced, Invisible Labour in Editorial and Peer Review: Who Keeps the System Running?
Amna Pottarath (ISiS)

“Traditionally sustained by a gift economy, the peer review process is increasingly challenged by rising submission volumes, reviewer fatigue, faster publication demands, and research integrity threats. In response, many editorial tasks like technical checks, reviewer selection, research integrity assessment, or peer review itself are outsourced by publishers and journals to vendor companies in countries like India. This outsourcing redistributes editorial and peer review labour reflecting cost saving strategies, while raising questions about transparency, power, labour conditions and neocolonial relations. By tracing editorial workflows through qualitative interviews and ethnographic research in outsourced vendor companies, this research aims to highlight how hidden labour underpins contemporary peer review and analyzes its implications on global knowledge evaluation.“

14.45 Presentation: How to Fund Research: Evaluating Research Assessment Practices at NWO
Stefan Gaillard (ISiS/NWO) and Stefan Penders (NWO)

“The Dutch Research Council (NWO) invests roughly a billion euros annually in scientific research, prompting critical reflection on how funding decisions are made and evaluated. Our project, part of a more large-scale effort by NWO to develop Research on Research practices, examines research assessment practices within NWO and compares them with best practices at other funding organizations and insights from the scientific literature. In this presentation, we highlight some of the key aims and ambitions of the project and actively invite your feedback to help shape more effective, efficient, and fair assessment procedures.”

15.30 Collecting suggestions for the network

16.00 (over to the lecture on predatory publishing in the math department)

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