WS4 Varying Approaches to Research Security

Target audience: TBA

Workshop content and learning outcomes: 
This workshop will outline how different countries are planning and implementing research security frameworks. Research security programs are cropping up globally and yet the approaches to implementation have varied widely. Implementations on their own are complex and face many quagmires like the intersection with privacy requirements, constitutionality, and the continuing and imperative need for global cooperation and open science.

Some countries have chosen to have a government-forward approach creating offices designed to act as contact points and outreach to identified constituents. Other countries have taken a different approach, asking the research community to address concerns through co-creation strategies. These approaches are driven by the policies, laws, and cultures of the nations in which the efforts are nested. A country’s regulatory ecosystem has a unique impact on how policies, such as those promulgated for research security, are implemented.

These approaches create positive opportunities to create a robust research security environment that strengthens their respective research environment. Yet each approach has different fundamental needs ranging from resources, to security, staffing, and community engagement. Furthermore, the tools and frameworks identified may vary widely given these different approaches because of the conduits through which inputs are identified and tools developed.

Representatives from the UK, US, and Germany will discuss how their country arrived at its research security model and how the research security centers are addressing the fundamental needs required to grow a strong research security resource for their respective country.

The first half of the workshop will discuss defining principles of their country’s approach, the structure of their nation’s research security resources, and how their research security centers fit into the larger government and university ecosystem. The panelists will also cover how their centers approach defining and measuring success, and community engagement.

The second half will focus on practical tools and frameworks that address some of the challenges faced by institutions. Participants will be able to share with each other and the panelists tools they have or feel are missing from currently available resources, as well as discussing how to ensure faculty can continue to succeed globally in accordance with national requirements.

Workshop facilitator:

Amanda Humphrey

BIO: TBA