UARC Newsletter April
April has been an event-intensive month for the Research Center! We organized an information session about the newly approved Research Project Guidelines (which will apply from the 1st of May onward!), and a dialogue session on interdisciplinary research with guest speaker Henk Kummeling:
UARC Dialogue session on Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
On the 22nd of April the UARC organized a dialogue session together with researchers at the University of Aruba (UA) who submitted questions about Interdisciplinary Research. We had an interesting discussion about what we consider to be interdisciplinary research, what our challenges are to engage with interdisciplinary research, and what role interdisciplinary research plays at the UA. A summary of this dialogue session will be available on our Open Knowledge Repository once our session participants have finalized contributing to it! (Please visit the link at a later date if you don’t see the summary on our repository yet!)
One of the key take-aways for the Research Center is that it remains important that we organize opportunities for researchers to come together and discuss their research. As a result of this session, we will work on organizing speed-dating sessions or other events to facilitate connections between UA researchers!
Many thanks to all our participants for a fruitful and lively discussion!
Add your research output to the Open Knowledge Repository!
If you have a research related output (and are based at the University of Aruba) you can add it to the University of Aruba’s Open Knowledge Repository! Login and start adding your research outputs as new items! Check out the Repository Guidelines or StOnE for more information on what research outputs should be uploaded and how. You can also always contact research@ua.aw for more information and support.
Use Unpaywall to get access to research articles
Stumbled upon a research article behind a paywall? It is possible that a version of the article is shared by universities or governments. You can use a web-browser extension called Unpaywall to see if there is such a version of the article available! When you access an article’s page on the publisher’s website you will see the extension with a grey (not available) or a green color (available, see image below). If you then click on the green extension, you will be led to the source where the article is available!
Research highlight: UAUCU symposium
On the 11th of April the UAUCUU student symposium took place at the University of Aruba! The students are from different programs: UA’s Sustainable Island Solutions through STEM (SISSTEM), UU’s University College Utrecht (UCU), and Global Sustainability Science (GSS) at UU. Each year, the students carry out empirical research in and about Aruba, in ways that are meaningful to the community as well as to themselves. During the symposium, the students shared their preliminary findings with the Aruban community via presentations and during a poster session. See for example “Towards sustainable food systems on terrestrial and marine ecosystems in Aruba”!
Upcoming UA Research events
Juridisch Onderzoek met Impact, 29 April from 6.30-8.30 at the MC Chapel: requires registration.
PhD Defense Clementia Eugene: Reimagining Child Maltreatment: A Human Development Capability Approach, 30 April, 6-8 PM at the Anton de Kom University of Surinam. Join the livestream!
SW&D Framing social problems and solutions, 19 May, 7-9 PM at Biblioteca Nacional.
UARC workshops and seminars - past and upcoming
Up next: Publication process (June, to be announced)
Past:
29 January - Building your Research Profile
4 March - Open Data intro + Bring your own Data
15 April - 1-2 PM - Research Guidelines Info session
22 April - 12-2 PM - Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration